Long Way Home Lyrics
All the while you left me in control
Somehow I'm surviving it doesn't seem so hard
Cos I'm not on this journey all alone
I see the sunrise only taste the rain
What you remind me I already know
Unless I follow every road with you
I take the long way home
I never thought you'd want to track me down
I thought that you disowned me every time I strayed
I guess I had it all the wrong way round
I see the sunrise only taste the rain
What you remind me I already know
Unless I follow every road with you
I take the long way home
I see the sunrise only taste the rain
What you remind me I already know
I see the sunrise only taste the rain
What you remind me I already know
Unless I follow every road
Unless I follow every road
I take the long way home
This is one of the several Threshold songs that shows its writer's Christian faith in that the song is originally intended as a monologue from a person to God, although Richard has left the door open for the addressed subject to be a significant other, friend, teacher, or other person.
The narrator is trying to "drive" without a higher power at the wheel, surprised that the God he turned his back upon would still refuse to give up searching for him, and learns again that following his own route and not God's is a fruitless exercise. I have experienced this on countless occasions and greatly appreciate the ingenious craftsmanship and honesty that went into writing this song.
The navigation theme appears fairly often in Richard's lyrics and was at the forefront on Dead Reckoning, as well as the spiritual message, and both were combined on "Pilot in the Sky of Dreams", a signature song from the group nowadays. "Long Way Home" is a classic piece of uplifting poetry from one of progressive metal's best wordsmiths.