Lyrics to
Take The Long Way Home

This version of Take The Long Way Home was released by Supertramp in 1979.

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So you think you’re a Romeo
playing a part in a picture-show
Take the long way home
Take the long way home

Cos you’re the joke of the neighborhood
Why should you care if you’re feeling good
Take the long way home
Take the long way home

But there are times that you feel you’re part of the scenery
all the greenery is comin’ down, boy
And then your wife seems to think you’re part of the
furniture oh, it’s peculiar, she used to be so nice.

When lonely days turn to lonely nights
you take a trip to the city lights
And take the long way home
Take the long way home

You never see what you want to see
Forever playing to the gallery
You take the long way home
Take the long way home

And when you’re up on the stage, it’s so unbelievable,
unforgettable, how they adore you,
But then your wife seems to think you’re losing your sanity,
oh, calamity, is there no way out?

Does it feel that you life’s become a catastrophe?
Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy.
When you look through the years and see what you could
have been oh, what might have been,
if you’d had more time.

So, when the day comes to settle down,
Who’s to blame if you’re not around?
You took the long way home
You took the long way home………..

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About Lyrics and Take The Long Way Home by Supertramp

The lyrics to Take The Long Way Home are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Supertramp in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Take The Long Way Home are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Supertramp and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Take The Long Way Home back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Take The Long Way Home by Supertramp in a number of ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Take The Long Way Home" means the words set to the music of Take The Long Way Home, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Supertramp. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Take The Long Way Home and the lyrics to Take The Long Way Home are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Supertramp who came here looking just for the lyrics to Take The Long Way Home, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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