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I'm Going Home

from Swallow Fear by Daniel McClelland

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Having the courage to define where 'home' is. Having the resolve to remain overseas, though your heart yearns to return 'home'. Having the confidence your family trusts you're doing the right thing, even if that means living away from them.

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I'm Going Home - Lyrics

I'm going home today
to the place I was born,
then ran away to form a different home.

So if you see my family,
tell them I won't be long,
I'm tired of birthdays spent on my own.

I won't leave a forwarding address, just return it to sender.
Please thank them for their interest, say he left last November.
If they ask where I rest, just say you don't remember, but he's home.

The open road in front of me,
many horizons more,
I'll cross four oceans before I return.

Please grant me hospitality,
let me sleep upon your floor,
I'll be cold but hoping you'll let your log-wood burn.

I won't leave a forwarding address, just return it to sender.
Please thank them for their interest, say he left last November.
If they ask where I rest, just say you don't remember, but he's home.

When I finally arrive I'll be warmly greeted,
but as long as I'm alive I will feel defeated.
Should I go back to my past, or will my future be cheated
of a chance to form more pasts?

Oh please, remain seated - I AM home.

OK, I'll stay here instead today,
though my family's world's apart,
I know they're proud of me,
proud I left and stayed.

I know they missed me yesterday,
and though it breaks my heart,
I'm staying warily,
staying where my bed's made

So I won't leave a forwarding address,
don't return it to sender.
Thanks for your interest,
I'm hear well past next November.
I'm here, but I still remember my home

credits

from Swallow Fear, track released November 24, 2019
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Credits:

Written, performed, produced and mixed by Daniel McClelland
Mastered by Mike Gibson at Munki Studios, Wellington, NZ

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Daniel McClelland Wellington, New Zealand

New Zealand-based mad-scientist smashing together alt-pop and alt-rock with Beach Boys-inspired harmonies. Stacks of vocals abound. Hard-hitting snares. Grungy guitars. All played, arranged and produced by one person.

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