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This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)The singer starts by wanting to be home and winds up talking to someone whose presence seems to settle the question. The bass and keyboard keep returning to the same little pattern. With so little changing beneath him, it sounds as though he can stop looking for somewhere else to be.0 - 2
The House That Built MeA woman asks the person who lives there now to let her see her childhood house. She remembers doing homework in a back bedroom and where the dog is buried. The visit matters because she wants to recover something about herself, and the building is the one witness she knows where to find.0 - 3
She’s Leaving HomeA girl slips out while the household sleeps, leaving a note behind. Then the focus passes to the parents, who can list what they gave her but cannot account for why she left. The song makes room for what the same house meant to the people on either side of the door.0 - 4
ClandestinoA man goes north looking for a future, but the authorities can treat him as someone who does not belong wherever he goes. He invokes Ceuta and Gibraltar while thinking about the life he left behind. Home is the place the journey cost him, even as he keeps moving to find somewhere he can stay.0 - 5
UmhomeMakeba learned this song from her grandmother. It follows a bride to her husband’s family home, where she discovers that he wants the woman who escorted her there. The bride sits outside on a rock, feeling she cannot go back to her own family. Both places that might have sheltered her now feel…0 - 6
I Ain’t Got No Home in This World AnymoreGuthrie’s narrator gives up the crops he raised to the banker and describes a family scattered without a place of its own. When the refrain comes back, the idea of home carries the weight of who gets to keep the land and who has to keep moving.0 - 7
A House Is Not a HomeWarwick begins with a chair that is still a chair when no one sits in it. The house has the same walls and rooms, but the people who once made it feel inhabited have grown apart. That small observation turns an ordinary object into a way of hearing how much the singer wants someone to come back.0 - 8
Green Green Grass of HomeThe singer arrives in a familiar town, sees his parents, and remembers the old oak tree. Then he wakes up to gray walls and the people waiting outside his cell. The ordinary details at the beginning gain their force when you realize that a dream was the only way he could return.0 - 9
Homeward BoundA singer waiting in a railway station has a suitcase, a guitar, and a ticket for the next show. Home takes shape in what the tour schedule leaves out, especially the person waiting for him there. The song gives an otherwise repetitive trip a place he actually wants to reach.0 - 10
Our HouseGraham Nash’s picture of a good home starts with flowers, firelight, and two cats in the yard. He remembers buying a vase with Joni Mitchell and going home on a chilly morning. What the song wants to keep is the ease of an ordinary day together.0
