Homeward Bound 

I'm sitting in the railway station.
Got a ticket for my destination.
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.
And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band.

[Chorus]
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.

Every day's an endless stream

Of cigarettes and magazines.
And each town looks the same to me, 
The movies and the factories
And every stranger's face I see reminds me that I long to be,

[Chorus]


Tonight I'll sing my songs again,

I'll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.

[Chorus]

Silently for me.


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   I picked the song “Homeward Bound” written by Jerry Landis but performed by Simon and Garfunkel. I chose this song because it has always been a favorite for me and because it fits my anthology theme. It is about missing home. This person has to travel for work but it is taking him away from his love of home and all that entails. The words the poet uses tells the reader how he feels about his job. Or at least how he feels about it compared to his wonderful “HOME”. “One-night stands”, “endless stream”, “I’ll play the game and pretend” and “shades of mediocrity”. He is not happy away from home.

   The tone is sad and a little depressing. The music is soft and works well to help create the mood. The repetition of the word home also works well to provide emphasis on how much he misses it. “Home where my thought's escaping, home where my music's playing, home where my love lies waiting silently for me.”   The title Homeward Bound is a little ironic because this man is on tour for his job, a singer, and not on his way home. “Got a ticket for my destination on a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.” But it also implies that even though he is working, home is so important to him that getting back there is fore front in his mind.

I think he sums his thoughts up well when he says, “Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me”. Home is where his comfort is and where his “Love is waiting silently for him”. She is waiting silently which tells me that she doesn’t complain when he goes out of town for work. Maybe they need the money but he would much rather be home.