Song and Sense

Music aside, good songs tend to make sense while bad songs don't. Even after navigating a slew of awkward diction ("I love my...closest ties") and strange grammar ("Mornings, I wake up, refreshed..."), I'm still left wondering what in the world "love at first light" even means. It doesn't help that the lyricist is a renowned local poet. So today we still find "Home" the homeliest. The reason may escape our notice, but it might just be because, amongst other things, the speaker makes a simple, sensible and sincere argument: "This is where I won't be alone, for this is where I know it's home." For most of us, it is an argument that is true, or at least that we hope to be.