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Can You Listen to "Way Back Home" and not cry? It's just so sad.
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I can. But it’s an amazing song (and I wish he had released it free from affirmation speech and with Affirmation 2 as an instrumental coda) | |
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I can listen to it without crying. But it makes me feel incredibly sad. I think it is the saddest song he EVER did. You can just feel this person just feels like they are not long for this world. The isolation and alienation in the song is palpable and he just feels like he is trying to convay that normal things, life patterns , experiences , that most people find peace in , it alludes him and he almost feels like a freak and accepts he will never feel comfortable here. ![]() [Edited 7/1/18 11:52am] | |
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I couldn't even listen to it the first time I put on that cd without bursting into tears. It is a very sad song. | |
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sro100 said: It's just so sad.
Y'all? Oh yes. However,listening to Breakcast Can Wait... That makes me go ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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I couldn't two years ago. I can now. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Yes. Fine song, but not 1 of my favorites, not even from that album If you can understand my color
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Yes. Easily. | |
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I dunno about that song. When I hear it, I always go, like, [Edited 7/2/18 12:27pm] | |
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You don't wanna hear about a brotha' getting left in a certain way?
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You know, to be honest, I always had a problem with the lyric: "All I ever wanted was... to be left alone!" - It's like, so you decided to become a world-famous rock star, then? | |
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It really is nothing to do with his death or pre knowledge of. The lyrics are merely a reflection on getting back to obes self ...its tone is more dour tgan its lyrical content. More lyrically like holy river. | |
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I'm good with every song apart from that one | |
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I dunno; I havent listened to it in quite a while... I tend to listen to the 80s and early 90s music these days since there are no sad connections to that, only good feelings from the past. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato | |
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It's the song that came on shuffle in the car just after I'd heard of his death. I cried like a baby. It's probably one of his saddest, most powerful songs. blah blah blah | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato | |
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from the first time i heard the song, i could relate, most of the songs I cover of Prince's as a musician, i can't relate but so much, this one was totally me, i'm ready to "go back home" anytime so, it'll probably be the next Prince song I take on. Also, in my opinion it's about as great as anything he ever did. | |
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I still haven't been able to play it since he passed. | |
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The best thing he did in over 20 years and it always felt like, for once, Prince was opening up his heart and being honest and confessional lyrically.
Wish there was a version of it without the voiceover part in the intro. | |
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susan rogers suspected that he wanted to erase the song wally simply because he was emotionally naked, i think it's true but.., i think there are a handful of his songs that are amongst my personal faves where he is emotionally naked, no pretense, no cares about how people are gonna take things. One is old friends for sale (again, unreleased for about ten years) avalanche (obscurely released) and Way Back Home. | |
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The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams | |
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No I think he really did want fame — he wanted big record sales, big crowds, to be be known and renowned, all of that. He was driven to that from a pretty young age. - It was just a silly song lyric that may have reflected how he was feeling in his mid-50s about being “left alone,” but I doubt that’s what he “always wanted.” - The closest meaning was that he always wanted to be “left alone” by record companies to produce and release the music exactly as he wanted. That I could understand. - Anyway, this is sort of a pleasant tune but not one of his greatest, I think. poppys said:
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no, i interpreted it as pretty literal, I mean, you can't be left alone in this world, none of us can. Too many people, too many agendas, too many responsibilities that we're brainwashed to live up to. I really do think he meant those words and he did his best to do that with his life, he had more freedom to be left alone than most of us do, most of us have to go out in public, deal with hostile, angry, disgruntled, plain fucked up peoples, he could avoid a lot (of course not all, but a lot) of that. How many people have to spend most of their lives working with strangers, many of whom they hate and feel they have no choice? Prince meant what he said, I believe. Also, I do believe that any artist of his importance, whether it's elvis, or springsteen, they always felt different, even like a freak, it's just part of the psychological profile of being a rock star. they ain't like the rest of us, let's face it.
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True true. And the more they give the more people want. It is a dilemma. People want them to be the same as a "regular person" for the fantasy of being them. I think Prince gave more than most, even with all his eccentricities. A lot of performers just leave it on the stage and let underlings handle all the rest. You don't see Dylan inviting fans to his house for a concert. politics: the art or science of government. | |
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he did, he let the fans rip his shit up from what I hear, just one of the mass of contradictions that was Prince. | |
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I don't cry when I hear it but it is sad. i have dreams all the time when I'm lost and can't find my way back home. Doesn't everyone? How long do u wanna be loved? Is forever enough, is forever enough? | |
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i don't have that dream but the them of home is universal, I think it's accurate though to describe death as getting home. | |
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politics: the art or science of government. | |
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