Take The Long Way Home by Supertramp
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In my opinion it’s about a guy who is probably in his mid thirties. 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. A lot of us, including me most of the time, are a bit lost. We think we need to famous, first verse about Romeo, .
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Whatever the case, i'm sure he has drawn a lot of this from personal experiences. In this case, the precipitating event is that he is walking own the street one day and an iron girder from a skyscraper building project falls and just misses him by inches. That causes him to rethink his life and split right at that very moment.
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. I had always imagine this song as being two guys friends whom decided to get away from home to do some activity together. The narrative of the song would by his friend who knows him well, tries to console him, as best as a guy could.
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This implies that our hero avoids getting home because when he's on the road he has a few more moments of being alone with his dreams, and in his dreams he's a superstar. Alternative rock band Lazlo Bane covered the song for their 2007 cover album Guilty Pleasures. Music Rights are covered by collection societies and publishers. The images are for illustrative purposes only and are not contractual.
I have been lucky to play with many great musicans, for that I am grateful. This song appeared uncredited, along with "Child of Vision" (also from the "Breakfast in America" album) in the 1984 Richard Lester directed film, "Finders Keepers". The movie starred Michael O'Keefe ("Caddyshack") and Lou Gossett Jr. I don't know why this song has always struck me as being about suicide for some reason. I've always assumed that this song was about him and his failed or about to fail marriage.
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Especially with words that can be interpret as a person being loved by many who dont really him, and enjoyed the crowd's praises. Outside of that arena he has to deal with the realities of home life and his harshest critics. Too long being in one place doing the same thing for years makes one wonder if you could have been someone other than yourself - a much better you. Really don't like this song or the entire album. They did much better in previous albums.
Music has always been in my soul, head and heart. I used to compose songs while walking to school. I took piano and sax lessons as a kid and then picked up guitar as a teenager and more recently found an affinity with the harmonica. Fall Out Boy's "The Kids Aren't Alright" song title is not a reference to The Offspring's 1998 single of the same name. It actually alludes to The Who's 1979 rockumentary film called The Kids Are Alright. Has anybody ever considered the possibilty that the song is about the effects of living life on a stage?
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I interpret it as the personal struggle Roger was feeling with the pressure of being an elite rock musician versus the responsibility of being a husband and father. The vocals, and emotion of Roger's vocals combined with the clarinet, and keyboards really strike a chord-a great song! In an interview with a Danish tv network, Roger cited the need to be a regular father as the reason he decided to leave the band in 1983.
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. The oohs and the aahs at the end are the best part. Supertramp really knows how to create a mood. They have since divorced after she left him.
All musical material is re-recorded and does not use in any form the original music or original vocals or any feature of the original recording. Panning allows you to create distinct effects by adjusting the track’s sounds to left or right. All files available for download are reproduced tracks, they're not the original music. 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'm so very glad that the band didn't sell out and let Greyhound use this song for their commercials. This album is one of my all-time favorites.
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. We do not currently have the separated mixes for all of our instrumental tracks, and unfortunately the audio multi-track conversion is long and complex. Nevertheless, we're doing our best to complete the custom accompaniments catalog.
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. I always thought the meaning of, "take the long way home" was another way of saying, "take time to smell the roses". Although marvelously well written the lyrics of this song is somewhat depressing and it's a step away for an ordinary middle aged dude to commit suicide. 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.
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