Gonna shake the road coat off a’ my bones,
Just got back from the combat zone,
Close only counts  in horseshoes &  handgrenades,

Gotta take a trip to my little town,
Where the ghosts of youth are hanging around,
Playing  tag between coups and the parades,

Southbound turn it around like a Citizen Kane,
Home isn’t where the heart isn’t there,
My head remains my house until it rains…

Got to break free of the ball & chain,
Man it’s good to be here again,
I need shelter won’t you take me home,

Got to believe in the Shangri-la,
Singing a song that goes  tra -la -la,
As I pedal around and around in my personal velodrome,

Southbound turn it around like a Citizen Kane,
Home isn’t where the heart isn’t there,
My head remains my house until it rains…

As we condo out the future and we sell the promised land,
We will pave the desert over, we will auction off the sand,
Do the dance of demolition, to finance the acquisition,
We devour our traditions, as children swim in quicksand,
(solo)
Southbound turn it around like a Citizen Kane,
Home isn’t where the heart isn’t there,
My head remains my house until it rains…
© COPYRIGHT 2006 BEN NEW





The lyric was written about returning to my home town.
  A sense of loss overwelmed me as I barely recognized the place I grew up.
Although the song is autobiographical in nature,
it is told through the eyes of a soldier returning after risking life & limb.
("Just got back from the combat zone, close only counts in horse shoes & handgrenades")
How strange to dig for traces of my own heritage.
I suppose the message is:
Don't let this happen to you!

QUOTES ABOUT HOME

Thomas Wolfe said you can never go home .

David Frost said:  "Television enables you to be entertained in your home
 by people you wouldn't have in your home ."

"When you finally go back to your old hometown,
you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood."
-- Sam Ewing

"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
-- (Sarah) Margaret Fuller (1810-50), American writer

"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself,
 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'
 And the sign that something's wrong with you is
when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."
-- Thornton Wilder , American writer, novelist


"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."
-- Woody Allen (b. 1935), American commedian, stage and movie actor, radio broadcaster


"The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year
 is they have the best home record in baseball."
--Ralph Kiner, Baseball announcer








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