And I go home again, it's time
And I go home again, it's time
And I go home again, it's time
I'm going home again, it's time
Such simple lyrics, seemingly without meaning. But in actuality, I find the concept incredibly profound. In poetry, we are always looking for compact ways to express large thoughts. Poetry is emotional shorthand. It is a signifier, a sign post for something too big for our hearts or minds to hold at once. A lot of art plays this role for us, including film, painting, sculpture, and dance. Literature does this to an extent but the structure of literature allows for the luxury of explaining large concepts at length and does not really need to be a signifier as it can end up being the signified. But the brevity of poetry--good poetry--allows for the processing of enormous concepts. And for this song, Icarus and Aurora are singing about going home. Indeed it is the only line in this repetitive song. But why would anyone sing about a subject so mundane and ordinary as "going home?" Unless of course the simple act of going home carries more weight than just getting in your car or on the subway to go back to where you live, where you "have your stuff." Going home here possibly signifies a return to comfort, to care, to love, where we all experienced a feeling of nurturing...and if you did not have that experience, firstly, I am sorry, but secondly, this signifies a place in your heart where it is still possible to be nurtured in that primal, unconditional way. A way that you still long for and need, whether you know and admit it or not. But there is of course another level of meaning. And it is to this one that I respond the strongest. Despite the electronic dance beat of this song, the sense is absolutely laden with emotion, in a minor key, with a dramatic, serious bass line. The mournful tune and Aurora's otherworldy harmonized vocal treatment back up this epic idea...the sound is grand, transcendent...going home...a return and all that entails, a rest and all that entails...a final rest. Going home as a return to a point of origin, coming full circle, making a full cycle from start to finish. It's time. What do you think this could be referring to? When is it time? Use your imagination. Listen to this song with that idea in mind. Listen to Aurora plaintively singing these words.
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