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Take that look of worry
I'm an ordinary man
They don't tell me nothing
So I find out all I can
There's a fire that's been burning
Right outside my door
I can't see but I feel it
And it helps to keep me warm
So I
I don't mind
No, I
I don't mind
Seems so long I've been waiting
Still don't know what for
There's no point in escaping
I don't worry anymore
I can't come out to find you
I don't like to go outside
They can turn off my feelings
Like they're turning off the light
But I
I don't mind
No, I
I don't mind
Oh, I
I don't mind
No, I
I don't mind
So take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home, oh Lord
'Cause I've been a prisoner all my life
And I can say to you
Take that look of worry
Mine's an ordinary life
Working when it's daylight
And sleeping when it's night
I've got no far horizons
I don't wish upon a star
They don't think that I listen
Oh, but I know who they are
And I
I don't mind
No, I
I don't mind
Oh, I
I don't mind
No, I
I don't mind
So take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home, oh Lord
Well, I've been a prisoner all my life
And I can say to you
But I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
I'm an ordinary man
They don't tell me nothing
So I find out all I can
There's a fire that's been burning
Right outside my door
I can't see but I feel it
And it helps to keep me warm
So I
I don't mind
No, I
I don't mind
Seems so long I've been waiting
Still don't know what for
There's no point in escaping
I don't worry anymore
I can't come out to find you
I don't like to go outside
They can turn off my feelings
Like they're turning off the light
But I
I don't mind
No, I
I don't mind
Oh, I
I don't mind
No, I
I don't mind
So take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home, oh Lord
'Cause I've been a prisoner all my life
And I can say to you
Take that look of worry
Mine's an ordinary life
Working when it's daylight
And sleeping when it's night
I've got no far horizons
I don't wish upon a star
They don't think that I listen
Oh, but I know who they are
And I
I don't mind
No, I
I don't mind
Oh, I
I don't mind
No, I
I don't mind
So take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home, oh Lord
Well, I've been a prisoner all my life
And I can say to you
But I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
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Take Me Home Lyrics as written by Phil Collins
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You know listening and reading the lyrics it sounds like the dull life that some people lead. Working day in and day out like a mouse in a wheel; going around and around with no real life inside of them, no dreams, no passions. The person is slowly losing their mind because they're chronically unhappy and spiraling downwards in despair and hopelessness. Time become distorted: hours run together and soon days run together and then it seems years slip by with no definition to them and so he "can't remember."
EverestMan, I think you are right. I think he is comparing people in such a situation (just going through the motions and not really "living" life) to people in insane asylums. The first half of the song is about the person in the mental institution and the second half about the bored working class person.
I also think you're right. When I heard that Phil himself said the song is about some person in a mental institution, I couldn't believe it. I interpreted it like you. Also when you look at the video, that supports your thoughts. He is just a normal guy,"Working when it's daylight And sleeping when it's night", he isn't living a spectacular life or so. The days are the same, ever and ever again, so he is bored. He lives an "ordinary life", his existence in the world doesn't matter in some way. So he wishes to see something of the world. He wants to travel all those interesting places in the world, wants to get to know something of what is happening around him. He just wants to break out of his boring every day life, wants to search for a deeper sense.
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@EverestMan You nailed it. This song is used in season 2 episode 2 of 'Mr. Robot ' the whole theme of that show is how the rich and powerful manipulate and use the working class - where they carry on - as sheep-like obedient consumers - and how the show's protagonists turn it upside down. This song is perfect for the theme of this show.
Christina78, I hope you still check up on the site b/c Phil is one of my favorites and he explained this song on Storytellers years ago. It's about a person in an insane asylum - There's no point escaping, I don't worry anymore...I've been a prisoner all my life... They don't think that I listen, Oh but I know who they are... He said it was kinda dark when he began talking about it. I think that's pretty much all he said. But the song is still great after all these years!
Great song.For a funny easy-going guy he has alot of dark songs.Although this one has a poppy or upbeat to it.
@LeArtist <br /> <br /> The only thing I would add is that I am a counselor in the mental health field and the term "insane asylum" is archaic and inaccurate.<br /> <br /> That said, it is a beautiful, spot on representation of what it is like to slip into a variety of different mental illnesses. And many of us suffer from some level of depression whether we admit it or not.<br /> <br /> My wife has Bipolar disorder and I have general depression and take meds. While my cycles aren't as extreme, I can "feel" what it's like to ebb and flow. <br /> <br /> So, to some extent this song touches us all.
@davidrharris72 <br /> <br /> Seriously? You're taking the effort to criticize a post made FIFTEEN YEARS BEFORE YOURS, which refers to a statement made YEARS before THAT about a song published in the 1980s as 'archaic'???<br /> <br /> Wow, the mental health professional has really lost perspective on this; time for a little "Medice, cura te ipsum"...
My friend told me that I should see Phill Collins farewell tour "Finally". So I did. It was fantastic!!! I knew Phil's music, but I was not "a fan". I have read Dr. Michael Newton's book "Journey of Souls". When I was watching the farewell tour's last song "Take Me Home" something struck me! I felt that the lyrics are about feelings we feel while living on Earth in human bodies, and feeling that our real home is somewhere "up" there. That our souls will return to the "real" home after death. When Phil was thanking all the musicians and told that they "gotta go home", they left the stage one by one. It was so simbolical for me. It was like people were leaving (dying) this life on Earth to be reunited once again in another world. I felt that sooner or later we all will meet again. You know, how close we feel during concerts. Just look around while being in the crowd. Phil and his team made us ONE again here on Earth! He TOOK US HOME! :)
Hmm.... yes I like it very much. I have never seen him "live", but I have seen a couple of his concert DVD's and they are incredible (as DVD's go). <br /> <br /> Gehenna (which has been transliterated and/or translated into our word "hell") was an actual place in Israel where the poorest dirtiest people lived. Sewage emptied into that area, and the homeless, unbalanced and criminals congregated there. "Much weeping and gnashing of teeth" to put it one way. Difficult to rise above, but not inescapable. <br /> <br /> Life is one thing and death is only a door. Personality is temporary and essence is eternal. Growth can span many lifetimes.<br /> <br /> Just my 2 cents.
Hmm.... yes I like it very much. I have never seen him "live", but I have seen a couple of his concert DVD's and they are incredible (as DVD's go). <br /> <br /> Gehenna (which has been transliterated and/or translated into our word "hell") was an actual place in Israel where the poorest dirtiest people lived. Sewage emptied into that area, and the homeless, unbalanced and criminals congregated there. "Much weeping and gnashing of teeth" to put it one way. Difficult to rise above, but not inescapable. <br /> <br /> Life is one thing and death is only a door. Personality is temporary and essence is eternal. Growth can span many lifetimes.<br /> <br /> Just my 2 cents.
@erglis19 I'm loving your interpretation!<br /> I hope you will like mine because it's very very related but more precise. ;)
Tidbit: Peter Gabriel and Sting sing backup vocals in the chorus.
Peter Gabriel's song "I dont remember" from many years ago is brought to mind.
@BlimpyJones Also Helen Terry.
@BlimpyJones Really? That is amazing considering Gabriel, would not work with Genesis. Thanks for sharing<br />
An insane asylum? That's very sad and a great shame. I always thought it was about shy people, and in some ways I still apply the song to myself today, even seven years out of high school. However, if you watch the video you can see that an originally dark theme has evolved into something much more for most people.
@actionfrankdoll Sort of reminds me of Pearl Jam's "Alive." What Eddie Vedder wrote as a song about a desperate and damaged man spinning out of control got embraced by people who found themselves inspired by it in dark times, to the extent that the meaning of the song changed to some extent even for Vedder himself.
actionfrank, I can see where it could apply to shy people, like someone with social anxiety or avoidant personality disorder. They have created their own prison, sort of like Pink Floyd's The Wall.
This song holds a very dear place in my heart. I can relate to it because to me it summarizes my journey to rediscover my faith and my relationship with God by returning to church camp after not going for five years because of being bullied. This is how I interpret it as thus: "Take that look of worry, I'm an ordinary man" - Exactly what it says, I'm just ordinary guy. "They don't tell me nothin', so I find out all I can." - No one told me what to expect, so I needed to find out on my own. "There's a fire that's been burning right outside my door." - Describes how I knew there was something missing from my life, and it was within my grasp all this time. "I can't see but I feel it, and it helps to keep me warm." - Describes the will of God: You can't see it, but you know it's there, and it makes you feel good to know there's someone looking out for you. "Seems so long I've been waiting, still don't know what for." - Again, describes how I knew there was something missing from my life, and I was never really sure what. "There's no point in escaping, I don't worry anymore." - Describes how nervous I was about returning and about how scared I was that history would repeat itself, but how I no longer needed to worry, as it would never happen again. "I can't come out to find you, I don't like to go outside." - Describes the fear I once lived in of being bullied there. "They can turn off my feelings like they're turning off the lights." - Describes how my experience with bullies ruined my original perception of camp. "But I don't mind." - Describes how I buried the bad memory by returning and how it doesn't bother me anymore. "Take that look of worry, mine's an ordinary life: working when it's daylight and sleeping when it's night." - Again, exactly what it says: just an ordinary guy who lives an ordinary life. "I've got no far horizons, I don't wish upon a star." - Again describes how I knew something was missing from my life, and how I no longer wish for something. "They don't think that I listen, Oh but I know who they are." - One final message to the bullies: that I forgive them, and thanking them...because if they hadn't targeted me in the first place, none of this would have ever happened. "Well, I've been a prisoner all my life, and I can say to you." - Describes how sometimes we feel lost in our everyday lives, and how we need to get away from the world once in a while. "But I don't remember; take, take me home." - Describes me wanting to forget about the hardships of real life for a while and wanting return to the camp, which has indeed become a home for me.
Just take me home. =)
(I know this seems like some uber-religious anecdote, but I had to post this somewhere; I'm not some super-religious nuthead myself, but this was a major turning point in my life, and I just had to share it.)
@BJA18 why do Christians always feel the need to apologize for an amazing faith??? You told an awesome story that is so realistic. We attend church and sometimes people at church are weak in their relationship with the Lord and so they still operate out of the flesh and not the Spirit. Never apologize for knowing Jesus Christ!
@BJA18 I doubt you'll ever read this being that it is 10 years later, but I wanted you to know that I really loved your story.
Heard this on Pandora and doggone song never fails to remind me of my old piano teacher who was sharp as a tack until the mental illness. Always makes me cry. This song speaks volumes of her progressive deterioration..."Cause I don't remember, so take take me home"...but also of her attitude and perseverance in spite of the knowledge that she was losing it..."But I, I don't mind No I, I don't mind".
Got the chance to visit her one last time before she passed, and even in that moment when they said she was no longer lucid, I still believe she somehow knew me and showed me an amazing example of fortitude and heroic faith. She was singing her favorite hymn...strongly... eyes closed...on pitch...all lyrics...and all the while gripping my hand.
I just love this song. To me, it always just means how I'm at school, and i'm like this prisoner with all these phonies who think i'm just a quiet girl, but I'm not, and I've never really felt free or myself at school, so I feel like, "hey, take me home."
I always get this song in my head after a longer-than-normal day or week of work. I have social anxiety issues coupled with OCD, and so I'm uncomfortable there in the first place, but then sometimes I'm trying and trying to get out of the office but my mental state won't let me leave things unfinished for tomorrow, and so I get out so late, and I'm so aggravated at that point, I just want to run to my car and get home as fast as I can, it's like just take me home already so I can sleep and hide and not think about it and be myself. I just had a day like that today actually.