This song has such a personal meaning to me. I first heard the song when Celtic Woman had done it on some PBS special that I had seen multiple times. I liked it, but didn't think anything of it. Then one day while perusing YouTube, I found a version done by Celtic Thunder, the all male version of Celtic Woman, and I fell in love with it. So I found lyrics, learned the song almost by heart, and I hold the lyrics very near to my heart.
I am away at college in one of the Chicago suburbs, but I live in a small country town in the middle of nowhere Illinois. And I actually understand this from both perspectives, it's almost strange and conflicting. While I am away at school, I consider my personal Caledonia to be my hometown. I miss my family, my best friends and I were raised there and have been friends almost our entire lives, and I miss the sense of familiarity. When I am at college, I don't always necessarily feel as though I am 'home'.
However, when I am home for an extended period of time(Summer/Winter breaks), I begin to feel as if my college is, in fact, my Caledonia. I miss seeing all of my friends from school, I have formed a few great friendships that will last a lifetime. And sometimes, home doesn't necessarily feel like home. My friends that stayed in the area continued living their lives together while I was away, so whenever I go back, home I feel more distant, because I have missed months of life at a time.
That's one thing I like about this song...although Caledonia is an actual area of Great Britain, every single person can think of a place that they would call their Caledonia.
The line that really hit me the hardest was: "Lost the friends that I needed losing, Found others on the way". I was sharing a bunch of music with one of my best friends from home a day or two before New Years, and right before I played this song, we made brief comment of how our core group of friends has changed in the past 4 or so years...a few of our closest friends very recently leaving the group due to some decisions they made. When I played this for him, he noticed the lyric and kind of chuckled, and then once the song was over, we had a long discussion regarding the "lost the friends that I needed losing." I think that is such a powerful line, at least to me personally. It's not "I lost touch with some of my friends...that's too bad...maybe I'll post on their wall on Facebook." No, it's friends that "needed losing". Almost as if the narrator has matured or changed on his travels, and some of his old friends just aren't on the same wavelength as him anymore. I have definitely experienced that with some of my friends.
This was an extremely long, drawn out personal interpretation, but I would suggest to anyone and everyone to check out the Celtic Thunder version, the harmonies are delightful, the orchestration is perfect and they all sing very, very well.
You know Adam it's a pleasure reading your post for this song.
You know Adam it's a pleasure reading your post for this song.
I experience the same thing with most of my friends, I'm thinking that I might have really changed to something that is totally different than how I am before..but still uncertain with it because the idea seems to be bad in such a way coz I do feel some remorse about it at some point, but with the line you used..things got a little clearer now.
I experience the same thing with most of my friends, I'm thinking that I might have really changed to something that is totally different than how I am before..but still uncertain with it because the idea seems to be bad in such a way coz I do feel some remorse about it at some point, but with the line you used..things got a little clearer now.
"some of his old friends just aren't on the same wavelength as him anymore."
"some of his old friends just aren't on the same wavelength as him anymore."
this one could or...
this one could or maybe explain why I'm feeling this way for my friends right now.
Sometimes I feel like, I need NEW friends, because the old ones would not fit for me anymore in such a way unexplainable.
Well, I am really happy to have read your comment on this song...Thanks!
Adam3990 wrote: "That's one thing I like about this song...although Caledonia is an actual area of Great Britain, every single person can think of a place that they would call their Caledonia."
Adam3990 wrote: "That's one thing I like about this song...although Caledonia is an actual area of Great Britain, every single person can think of a place that they would call their Caledonia."
I'd go even further and say that anything, or anyone, can be one's Caledonia (like a friend, girl/boy friend, relative, pet etc.). :)
I'd go even further and say that anything, or anyone, can be one's Caledonia (like a friend, girl/boy friend, relative, pet etc.). :)
This song has such a personal meaning to me. I first heard the song when Celtic Woman had done it on some PBS special that I had seen multiple times. I liked it, but didn't think anything of it. Then one day while perusing YouTube, I found a version done by Celtic Thunder, the all male version of Celtic Woman, and I fell in love with it. So I found lyrics, learned the song almost by heart, and I hold the lyrics very near to my heart.
I am away at college in one of the Chicago suburbs, but I live in a small country town in the middle of nowhere Illinois. And I actually understand this from both perspectives, it's almost strange and conflicting. While I am away at school, I consider my personal Caledonia to be my hometown. I miss my family, my best friends and I were raised there and have been friends almost our entire lives, and I miss the sense of familiarity. When I am at college, I don't always necessarily feel as though I am 'home'.
However, when I am home for an extended period of time(Summer/Winter breaks), I begin to feel as if my college is, in fact, my Caledonia. I miss seeing all of my friends from school, I have formed a few great friendships that will last a lifetime. And sometimes, home doesn't necessarily feel like home. My friends that stayed in the area continued living their lives together while I was away, so whenever I go back, home I feel more distant, because I have missed months of life at a time.
That's one thing I like about this song...although Caledonia is an actual area of Great Britain, every single person can think of a place that they would call their Caledonia.
The line that really hit me the hardest was: "Lost the friends that I needed losing, Found others on the way". I was sharing a bunch of music with one of my best friends from home a day or two before New Years, and right before I played this song, we made brief comment of how our core group of friends has changed in the past 4 or so years...a few of our closest friends very recently leaving the group due to some decisions they made. When I played this for him, he noticed the lyric and kind of chuckled, and then once the song was over, we had a long discussion regarding the "lost the friends that I needed losing." I think that is such a powerful line, at least to me personally. It's not "I lost touch with some of my friends...that's too bad...maybe I'll post on their wall on Facebook." No, it's friends that "needed losing". Almost as if the narrator has matured or changed on his travels, and some of his old friends just aren't on the same wavelength as him anymore. I have definitely experienced that with some of my friends.
This was an extremely long, drawn out personal interpretation, but I would suggest to anyone and everyone to check out the Celtic Thunder version, the harmonies are delightful, the orchestration is perfect and they all sing very, very well.
thanks for listening!
You know Adam it's a pleasure reading your post for this song.
You know Adam it's a pleasure reading your post for this song.
I experience the same thing with most of my friends, I'm thinking that I might have really changed to something that is totally different than how I am before..but still uncertain with it because the idea seems to be bad in such a way coz I do feel some remorse about it at some point, but with the line you used..things got a little clearer now.
I experience the same thing with most of my friends, I'm thinking that I might have really changed to something that is totally different than how I am before..but still uncertain with it because the idea seems to be bad in such a way coz I do feel some remorse about it at some point, but with the line you used..things got a little clearer now.
"some of his old friends just aren't on the same wavelength as him anymore."
"some of his old friends just aren't on the same wavelength as him anymore."
this one could or...
this one could or maybe explain why I'm feeling this way for my friends right now. Sometimes I feel like, I need NEW friends, because the old ones would not fit for me anymore in such a way unexplainable.
Well, I am really happy to have read your comment on this song...Thanks!
p.s. You must be a really good friend.:)
Adam3990 wrote: "That's one thing I like about this song...although Caledonia is an actual area of Great Britain, every single person can think of a place that they would call their Caledonia."
Adam3990 wrote: "That's one thing I like about this song...although Caledonia is an actual area of Great Britain, every single person can think of a place that they would call their Caledonia."
I'd go even further and say that anything, or anyone, can be one's Caledonia (like a friend, girl/boy friend, relative, pet etc.). :)
I'd go even further and say that anything, or anyone, can be one's Caledonia (like a friend, girl/boy friend, relative, pet etc.). :)