![]() 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'. I see 'home' as being internal and external. I always saw the song a little ambiguous. I don't know if it's the harmonies or the melodies, or whatever, but I never get sick of it. 'Take The Long Way Home' has a quality about it that just makes me feel warm inside. A line comes to me and they usually do come to me… the best lines come to me rather than me trying to think them up consciously and I just feel they're right and I go with them whether I totally understand the meaning or not. ![]() It was more… often when I write songs, I go by gut instinct. It's a fun song! I remember having a lot of fun writing it but never really having a clear picture of it. Again it's ambiguous - 'if you're not around' means… you're dead or you couldn't settle down - you couldn't take it and you're off looking for things that are more important. Because I think 'home' in its deepest sense is inside, is being at peace with oneself. ![]() Wikipedia has a great quote from the artist, Roger Hodgson, from a "making of Breakfast in America" recording: 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. ![]() This guy sits back and thinks what could have been if he'd had more time when he was single. The lyric 'there's no way out' is the feeling this guy has being stuck in a marriage he's unhappy with. He's married but he's living the single life and his wife thinks he's nuts (which might suggest midlife crisis). 'Take the long way home' would be going out on the town instead of going home to his wife and family. His wife thinks he's 'part of the furniture' - but 'she used to be so nice'. Now he's part of the scenery - he's the joke of the neighborhood (his crowd). The guy is narcissistic - he considers himself a Romeo - a lady's man. He's in the spotlight - meeting new people, having fun, and (of course) meeting new women. This would be a guy who feels 'part of the crowd' when he's out on the town. I can see the celebrity angle that the lyrics seem to suggest but I think this song is about a guy who got married young and is expressing regret. Again, this can be taken in two contexts: either they're fretting about the time they've wasted (like you mentioned) and are trying to get as much out of life at the last minute as they can, or they just have such a zest for life that they're not done living yet. The last verse, I think, can take two meanings, then: "So when the day comes to settle down/who's to blame if you're not around?" Obviously, the "day to settle down" refers to the eventual slowing down and ending of a person's life, and the fact that they're "not around," I, at least, think implies that they've not slowed or settled down at all, as would be expected of an aging person. In that context, maybe they're trying to say that we "never see what you want to see," as is sung later on, and assume that life isn't going the way it should, rather than just living it. I take this line to mean that the person in question realizes that life is going on around him and feels that he's missing out-that he's been taking the long way home and he wants to go and make it big instead of sitting around. "But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery" Although, it might not just be about letting it waste away: I think you're just about spot-on with the general theme of the song being about life passing by. I know I'm super late on this, but you make a good point. When you look through the years and see what you could have been. Then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity.ĭoes it feel that chu're life's become a catastrophe? When you're up on the stage it's so unbelievable! Then your wife seems to think you're part of the furniture. There are times that you feel you're part of the scenery. Why should you care if you're feeling good?
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