For me, one of those is Supertramp - "Take the Long Way Home".
By the 2010s my life was not in a great place. I put all of my efforts into my work, and all I cared about away from work was my two kids. I attempted to make them fulfill all of my social needs. That is not a great plan. And, as anyone could predict, by late high school they had their own life. And I was "alone" with only my loveless marriage. I was a bit lost for a few years.
This song was everything I was experiencing. The actual meaning of the song, as publicly stated by Roger Hodgson, was a man who saw himself better than the life he was living. He didn't want to go home, as he didn't really have a "home". Home for him was a place he didn't want to go.
That use to be exactly what it was for me.
And I was certainly not alone... and where the phrase 'Men live lives of quiet desperation" has it's most meaning.
For the few here who may not know the song... it has a long introduction, you can skip to about :30
By the 2010s my life was not in a great place. I put all of my efforts into my work, and all I cared about away from work was my two kids. I attempted to make them fulfill all of my social needs. That is not a great plan. And, as anyone could predict, by late high school they had their own life. And I was "alone" with only my loveless marriage. I was a bit lost for a few years.
This song was everything I was experiencing. The actual meaning of the song, as publicly stated by Roger Hodgson, was a man who saw himself better than the life he was living. He didn't want to go home, as he didn't really have a "home". Home for him was a place he didn't want to go.
That use to be exactly what it was for me.
And I was certainly not alone... and where the phrase 'Men live lives of quiet desperation" has it's most meaning.
For the few here who may not know the song... it has a long introduction, you can skip to about :30