100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #20: Supertramp, Take the Long Way Home

This is the stand-out track from the album Breakfast in America, a song which works on two distinct but contradictory, yet related, levels.  As Hodgson himself explained in a 2010 interview with Acoustic Storm: “I’m talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, take the long way home to the wife because she treats you like part of the furniture, but there’s a deeper level to the song, too. I really believe we all want to find our home, find that place in us where we feel at home, and to me, home is in the heart and that is really, when we are in touch with our heart and we’re living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home.”

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