Lyric discussion by LuckyTown 

Cover art for I Don't Want to Go Home lyrics by Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes

This is still my favorite Southside Johnny song (written by Steven Van Zandt of The Sopranos and Springsteen's band).

Even though it sounds like a good-time, bar-band song -- and it's that too -- the lyrics tell a deeper story of a man who can't leave the warmth of live music because his lover recently left him and he doesn't know why.

<i>I know we had to try To reach up and touch the sky Baby, whatever happened to you and I That I don't want to go home</i>

Blue-eyed soul doesn't get better than this. A forgotten classic.