The amount of songs that talk about the concept of "Home" is growing exponentially, but I'm not complaining. There are some fucking good songs about home. She & Him just release Volume 2, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that track 8 is "Home." I was even more pleased to find that I really love what Zooey did with the concept. She took the home and love analogy to a geographical level. And as Jeff Adams preaches, geography is fucking awesome.
Anyway, in the midst of all these thoughts on Home, itunes was nice enough to remind me that not all the songs in my life about Home, are called Home.
Basically, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out came on. One of the most important songs in my life. And how does it reference Home?
"Driving in your car/I never, never want to go home/ Because I haven't got one, laa dee daa/No, I haven't got one"
So here I am, fixated on all these songs talking about home and HAVING one, when the song in my life that trumps all these guys is basically espousing the nomadic existence (which I suppose is intensely appropriate for me) and lack of a home.
Moreover, Morrissey is still talking about love. Except in his case, love isn't stationary. It's being on the road. And being with the person that makes you feel like you never want the car to stop. Makes you feel like home doesn't exist anymore and that's okay.
Pour conclure - Home can be a state. Home can be a nation. Home can be a feeling. Home can be a person.
1. Home - Depeche Mode
2. Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
3. Home - She & Him
4. Home - Michael Bublé
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5. Home Again - Beach House
- DJ
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