Hard Way Home Lyrics

Lyric discussion by wildflowerfever 

Cover art for Hard Way Home lyrics by Brandi Carlile

This is a fun song to sing in the car. I think it's about taking a kind of twisted path through life, struggling to figure yourself out and not having found where you belong. I have friends who took what might be called the "easy" way home and followed the life path that's traditionally set out for us: college, grad school, marriage, house, kids, career. That's not the way my life is working out (as is probably the case for most of us), and I'm wading through existential angst instead of starting a family. But that's okay, too. We'll all find our place eventually. (Well, maybe not, but we might as well pretend.)

My Interpretation