Home?

I discovered a song that I never really listened, really listened too but it's so fitting in my stage of life and my status of travel and sings to my heart...I think it's a song to learn on the geetar but makes me feel that my dusty boots need to settle a bit more a bit. Travel is amazing and I can't wait for my European trip, being on the train, writing, wrestling, see new places, but will it be home? No. Will it help me grow? Of course.

It's so important to be true to yourself. Short term and long term goals are paramount but you have to come to your own conclusions which may not be in sync with those around you. If you live for others you lose your quest for home. You become someone else's home. That's not what life is about.

In every little city I go to I take time to be with friends and see their perspective of living in a place they have grown accustomed to routine. They have grown accustomed to waking to the same noises and sleeping to the same sounds of birds settling in trees or trains making breaking noises from afar. They walk or drive to work. They dine in their favorite places. They wine at their favorite hole in the walls. I have always been addicted to studying a city and the flows. I love watching strangers imagining what their routine is like and if they are happy with that routine. I see the benefits of routine yet I resist it. But I feel my resistance waning, I feel my curiousity isn't killing me it's chilling me.

So as I enjoy coffee, listening to this song on repeat, I kick my feet up, throwing a ball to the dog in between emails and feeling that change within. It's been over a year of NOT dedicating more of myself to my music and I think within writing new songs and singing the old ones...well a good cry and new laugh on life will certainly be welcome. Home for me is where I will find. There isn't a love that I need, just the love of myself as I grow and welcome doors I never considered keeping open.

Hope you enjoy this song as well.

Enjoy!
Dia

Her:
Alabama, Arkansas
I do love my ma and pa
Not that way that I do love you

Him:
Holy moley, me oh my
You're the apple of my eye
Girl, I've never loved one like you

Her:
Man, oh man, you're my best friend
I scream it to the nothingness
There ain't nothing that I need

Him:
Well, hot and heavy, pumpkin pie
Chocolate candy, Jesus Christ
Ain't nothing please me more than you

Both:
Ah, home
Let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Ah, home
Let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you

La, la, la, la, take me home
Mother, I'm coming home

Him:
I'll follow you into the park
Through the jungle, through the dark
Girl, I never loved one like you

Her:
Moats and boats and waterfalls
Alleyways and pay phone calls
I've been everywhere with you

Him:
That's true
Laugh until we think we'll die
Barefoot on a summer night
Never could be sweeter than with you

Her:
And in the streets you run a-free
Like it's only you and me
Geez, you're something to see

Both:
Ah, home
Let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Ah, home
Let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you

La, la, la, la, take me home
Daddy, I'm coming home

(talking)
Him: Jade
Her: Alexander
Him: Do you remember that day you fell out of my window?
Her: I sure do, you came jumping out after me
Him: Well, you fell on the concrete, nearly broke your ass, you were bleeding all over the place and I rushed you out to the hospital, you remember that?
Her: Yes, I do
Him: Well, there's something I never told you about that night
Her: What didn't you tell me?
Him: While you were sitting in the backseat smoking a cigarette you thought was going to be your last, I was falling deep, deeply in love with you, and I never told you until just now

Both:
Ah, home
Let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Ah, home
Let me go home
Home is where I'm alone with you

Him:
Home
Let me come home
Home is wherever I'm with you

Her:
Ah, home
Yes I am home
Home is when I'm alone with you

Her:
Alabama, Arkansas
I do love my ma and pa
Moats and boats and waterfalls
Alleyways and pay phone calls

Both:
Ah, home
Let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Ah, home
Let me go home
Home is where I'm alone with you