"Home" as written by Vanessa Carlton and Stephan Douglas Jenkins....
Some people live in a house on a hill
And they wish they were someplace else
There's nobody there when the evening is still
Secrets with no one to tell
And some I have known
Have a ship where they sleep
With sounds of rocks on the coast
They sail over oceans five fathoms deep
They can't find what they want the most
And even now
When I'm alone
I've always known
With you
I am home
And some live in towns
Cardboard shack on concrete
All blustered, and bustling life
They search for the color
You can never quite see
Â??Cause it's all white on white
And even now
When I'm alone
I've always known
With you
I am home
And even now
When I'm alone
I've always known
With you
I am home
For me it's a glimpse
And a smile on your face
A touch of your hands
An honest embrace
For where I lay, it's you I keep
This changing world
And fall asleep
With you all I know is
I'm coming home
Coming home
And they wish they were someplace else
There's nobody there when the evening is still
Secrets with no one to tell
And some I have known
Have a ship where they sleep
With sounds of rocks on the coast
They sail over oceans five fathoms deep
They can't find what they want the most
And even now
When I'm alone
I've always known
With you
I am home
And some live in towns
Cardboard shack on concrete
All blustered, and bustling life
They search for the color
You can never quite see
Â??Cause it's all white on white
And even now
When I'm alone
I've always known
With you
I am home
And even now
When I'm alone
I've always known
With you
I am home
For me it's a glimpse
And a smile on your face
A touch of your hands
An honest embrace
For where I lay, it's you I keep
This changing world
And fall asleep
With you all I know is
I'm coming home
Coming home
Lyrics submitted by hellboi
"Home" as written by Gary Bradford Mark Hornby
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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The song starts by giving an example of what some people are like. A place to live is used as a metaphor for someone to trust and confide in.
There are three main groups she addresses that don't have a good "home". "Some people live in a house on a hill..." suggests that there are people who do not have anyone to talk to because they seclude themselves up on a hill (isolate themselves from relationships) and they spend their life dreaming about what they will never have. Others ("have a ship where they sleep...") also don't have anyone, but they try really hard to find one ("sail over oceans five oceans deep/they can't find what they want the most"). Finally, "some live in towns..." describes someone who lives in a cardboard box, i.e. a homeless person. They obviously don't have anyone.
Then the song shifts to where she describes what she has; she does have a home, or a person to trust. The chorus reiterates this "With you/I am home". The final two stanzas are used to describe her relationship a little better. The "glance/and a smile on your face" lights up her day; touching hands or embracing also brings her home. Whenever she is with this person, she is home and happy.
That was extremely simple, but you hit the meaning of it, (To me) dead on.
Home isn't just a place.
It's a feeling too. You can be at your house and still feel awkward.
You can be with your love sleeping in a box, and you can feel more at home than you ever had in a house.
that's what this song means to me
"For me it's a glance" and
"I fall asleep"
the instrumental is so beautiful, Vanessa doesn't get the recognition and credit she so rightly deserves.