I've always taken this as a song written about his time right after departing from the Truckers. By all accounts he was in a bad place when they split and struggling with addiction. I hear it as him talking to his former band: "Are you out on the road", "Are you dreaming out loud", etc and while they are doing that he is headed home to go it alone again.
In real life these things don't happen much at all.
Too bad we all live the dream.
I'm realizing just how far I had to fall
and taking it home to go it alone again.
He now knows how good it was and how much losing it hurts. His only choice now is going home to go it alone again.
Who knows maybe I'm crazy and way off, but that is how I hear it.
I've always taken this as a song written about his time right after departing from the Truckers. By all accounts he was in a bad place when they split and struggling with addiction. I hear it as him talking to his former band: "Are you out on the road", "Are you dreaming out loud", etc and while they are doing that he is headed home to go it alone again.
In real life these things don't happen much at all. Too bad we all live the dream. I'm realizing just how far I had to fall and taking it home to go it alone again.
He now knows how good it was and how much losing it hurts. His only choice now is going home to go it alone again.
Who knows maybe I'm crazy and way off, but that is how I hear it.