"Take the Long Way Home" is the fourth single and sixth track of Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America. ▼ Select Rank Below 1971 Olivia Newton-John, Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - [1] According to its composer Roger Hodgson, the song deals with how the desire to go home can go both ways: 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.
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It was the last song written for the album, being penned during the nine-month recording cycle. # 12; # 33; "Take the Long Way Home" is the fourth single and sixth track of Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America.
# 24; # 55; 1975 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. # 85; # 62; # 88; # 66; Rock & Roll
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It was the last song written for the album, being penned during the nine-month recording cycle.
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# 77; ▼ Select Chart Below # 25; "[2], Billboard Magazine contributor David Farrell praised the "convincing melody with a crafty hook" although he felt the music contrasted with the "pessimistic lyric about man's loss of identity in an increasingly complex world. # 11;
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# 39; # 50; Take the long way home Take the long way home But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery all the greenery is comin' down, boy And then your wife seems to think you're part of the furniture oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so nice. # 87; # 40; # 61; # 54; # 65; # 58; # 96; # 90;
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