Celebrate Me Home

@EPBPGrad my great grandparents had a place in Grayling too. My mom spent her summers there!

@EPBPGrad my great grandparents had a place in Grayling too. My mom spent her summers there!

That's what I was wondering, too. Maybe... maybe it refers to the context of the next line "Play me one more song." Among some professional musician types a "song" is often called a "number." Kind of a stretch, I'm thinkin'.

That's what I was wondering, too. Maybe... maybe it refers to the context of the next line "Play me one more song." Among some professional musician types a "song" is often called a "number." Kind of a stretch, I'm thinkin'.

@jcarr I think you nailed it ! A number refers to a song. He wants a song that he can come back and remember this time.

@jcarr I think you nailed it ! A number refers to a song. He wants a song that he can come back and remember this time.

Sam

Sam

So this is a couple years too late, but I think it is number 3 as you suggest, but not another song to write or inspiration. But, rather, it is another one to revel in, to dance to, to be surrounded by friends with. He's asking that his family and friends' celebration call him home with music and love--give me a number, just one more song that I'll always remember, something that I can recall when I'm all alone, celebrate me home. So, in other words, just play me a song that will call me home.

So this is a couple years too late, but I think it is number 3 as you suggest, but not another song to write or inspiration. But, rather, it is another one to revel in, to dance to, to be surrounded by friends with. He's asking that his family and friends' celebration call him home with music and love--give me a number, just one more song that I'll always remember, something that I can recall when I'm all alone, celebrate me home. So, in other words, just play me a song that will call me home.

@inkling Methinks you're thinking a bit too deeply about it. Maybe, just maybe, the term "gimme a number" was the only thing he felt sounded good when placed into that particular part of the song. Alternatively, maybe it just wasn't deeply thought out, and he was writing more from an emotional standpoint than anything else. Regardless, just cause you don't like the sound of the lyric, doesn't mean he's an egotistical jerk who can't enjoy time with his family without somehow being performed to.

@inkling Methinks you're thinking a bit too deeply about it. Maybe, just maybe, the term "gimme a number" was the only thing he felt sounded good when placed into that particular part of the song. Alternatively, maybe it just wasn't deeply thought out, and he was writing more from an emotional standpoint than anything else. Regardless, just cause you don't like the sound of the lyric, doesn't mean he's an egotistical jerk who can't enjoy time with his family without somehow being performed to.