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Very few who I have interpreted this song to, can here what I do in the lyrics. Having loved this song since it was released, what it speaks to me personally is a sense of needing to 'reset' one's outlook on the often out of control madness in our lives. I've always assumed that this song was about him and his failed or about to fail marriage. Whatever the case, i'm sure he has drawn a lot of this from personal experiences. I always thought the meaning of, "take the long way home" was another way of saying, "take time to smell the roses". I have never been able to figure out what "part of the furniture" means; it is clearly a metaphor for something.
Nowadays, we have the Supertramp camp saying Roger is stealing Supertramp songs for his use on tour. Roger wrote his songs and Rick Davies wrote his songs - it would be nice if the side could come to a reconciliation but it doesn't look promising. Anyway, enjoy the songs, they are amazing works of art.
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We think we need to famous, first verse about Romeo, . The second verse, joke of the neighborhood, is about not knowing who you are or pretending to be someone else, disregarding your own feelings. The third verse, but there are times, is about almost realizing that we do not live our life in the right way. We don’t give ourselves enough credit and self love. @TheLongWayHome sometimes the intent of songs is lost when other people try to interpret what the artist was trying to say. Refreshing to hear what Roger Hodgeson was actually thinking about while penning this song.
I always saw the song a little ambiguous. I see 'home' as being internal and external. Definitely part of the song is about the shallowness of success and getting caught up in a world and success and chasing, being popular, or whatever, is taking 'the long way home'. Because I think 'home' in its deepest sense is inside, is being at peace with oneself.
Weekend Songs: Supertramp, ‘Take the Long Way Home’
General CommentIt is really a great sad song of life. To understand this song just substitude Long with Wrong. Take the long way home is realy take the wrong way home. He married the wrong woman when everyone is telling him he is joke because she is just using him. As he grows he realized she does not love him anymore so he takes a trip to the city lights to get away. He sees himself stuck and can't change things.
Has anybody ever considered the possibilty that the song is about the effects of living life on a stage? The pressures to constantly be "ON", and very rarely having the chance to be something else? So many artists find themselves stuck in the rut of constantly cranking out the same thing time after time, never allowed to be something else. This song reminds of me of grown-up people I know who have been mild drug users all their lives, you know, true rock 'n' rollers, and well, by staying youthful, never really became anything more than mediocre. Yet there is something to be said for taking the long way home, you get to see a lot more along the road, and it's always interesting.
Take the Long Way Home Lyrics
A wife, a couple of kids and a well paying but unsatisfying job. When he was younger he had great dreams and aspirations and thought he would be great, powerful, achieve something, only to find that is life has turned out to be ordinary. I'm quite sure about the meaning and it's different than the comments I saw here. I think it's about realizing what is truly important in life. The core meaning of the song to me is that you don’t have to struggle to do or be anything.
Gaana is the one-stop solution for all your music needs. Gaana offers you free, unlimited access to over 30 million Hindi Songs, Bollywood Music, English MP3 songs, Regional Music & Mirchi Play. He's "the joke of the neighborhood" because he's stayed around and let her do all of that stuff. However he's at his breaking point and she realizes that which references his sanity and the greenery coming down. The guy at this point's regretting even marrying her and is getting close to divorcing her and getting back out on the single scene.
To me, those lyrics could definately be interpreted as someone who has just given up hope and just decided to "take the long way home". Just a different take on the song. I just became re-acquainted with the writing of John Updike .
His wife thinks he's 'part of the furniture' - but 'she used to be so nice'. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. The story of the legendary lupine DJ through the songs he inspired. Gwen Stefani wrote "Just a Girl" as a message to her overprotective father.
The song was track one of side two of the group's 1979 album, 'Breakfast in America', it peaked at #1 on May 13th, 1979 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart. I guess Barry Gibb disagreed, since he wrote a song for Dionne Warwick three years later called "Take the Short Way Home." Alternative rock band Lazlo Bane covered the song for their 2007 cover album Guilty Pleasures. Maybe i'm taking the lyrics to literally - but that's my take. In the end, when he's ready to settle down, no one's going to be there because he never really adapted to marrried life.
That line which reads "...who´s to blame when you´re not around? You TOOK THE LONG WAY HOME ". As they say, we gotta read between the lines. A lot of us, including me most of the time, are a bit lost.
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