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Homesickness Hymn

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Homesickness Hymn	comment	It's become something of a cliche to say "the world is getting smaller." While the world isn't physically shrinking, improving technologies of communication and travel make planet Earth seem like it's not such a big place after all. That feeling fades away rather quickly, however, when you've been away from home for a while and, for whatever reason, cannot get back there at will. When you become homesick, even a relatively small distance can seem endless. One popular way to cope with homesickness is by singing about it. Hence, the abundance of Homesickness Hymns. Homesickness Hymns are, naturally, songs in which the primary theme centers on missing one's home and family and yearning to return to them. Done well, they can be among the most relatable songs of all — after all, who hasn't felt homesick at least once in their life? If done poorly, however, they can come across as whiny, or even ungrateful for the opportunities life has given the narrator. Homesickness Hymns can take many forms, but most of them generally fall into two categories: the literal and the metaphorical. A literal version of the Homesickness Hymn is Exactly What It Says on the Tin — it tells a story of a person who is away from home for whatever reason, and they are dying to get back to their home, family, and/or lover. One particularly common variation is the "Tired of Touring" song, in which the narrator is a touring musician or celebrity who is sick of being on the road and just wants to get home and rest up. Other songs, however, take the metaphorical approach. In these songs, "home" is not necessarily an actual physical location or person, but symbolic of a state of stability: where a person feels safe, secure, provided for, and loved. It can also be symbolic of more specific things, like spiritual comfort. Compare and contrast "Leaving the Nest" Song, with which the Homesickness Hymn often overlaps. Contrast Wanderlust Song, which is this trope's thematic opposite: they're about being sick of home and wanting to set out on a journey. Is not necessarily a religious song despite its title.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_164584f2	comment	In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is stuck in Oz and is trying to get back home. While sleeping during her journey, she imagines singing "I Dream of Home", which is about her dreaming of her home. This is accompanied by flashbacks of her farm in Kansas, along with her having a conversation with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on the front porch.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_1ce379a6	comment	Joe Diffie's hit song "Home" offers up a cornucopia of the narrator's memories of home growing up, and expresses longing for that simpler, more comforting time.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_22d74b2e	comment	Redwall: Triss has a young badger and hare join a sea otter and go looking for adventure, being the equivalent of teenagers or young adults. They take refuge with an old otter, who disapproves of runaways and sings them songs of homesickness and worried mothers until they flee before they start crying and return to Salamandastron.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_25c7681c	comment	John Denver has a couple of famous examples: While the song doesn't offer any specifics on where he is, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is about a man who misses his home and family in West Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains by the Shenandoah Rivernote which, for geography buffs, is specifically in Jefferson County, WV, and is driving to get there as fast as he can. The narrator of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (originally titled "Babe, I Hate to Go", but changed after its first release) is homesick before he even leaves home: the song has him saying goodbye to his lover, promising that he'll return with her wedding ring. While Denver wrote the song and performed it first, the song is most famously known as performed by Peter, Paul and Mary.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_28237962	comment	Disenchanted (2022): In "Fairytale Life (The Wish)", Giselle pines for the simplicity of life back home in Andalasia.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_28c6afce	comment	"I Want To Go Home" from the Thomas & Friends special, Journey Beyond Sodor, has Thomas singing about how he misses his fiends and home while being held captive in a Steelworks factory.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_2ce1b491	comment	The movie version of The Wizard of Oz originally had a Dark Reprise of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," sung by Dorothy while being held captive by the Wicked Witch of the West.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_303fd5df	comment	"Mama, Don't Forget to Pray for Me" by Diamond Rio is sung from the perspective of a man who's moved away to a new job where he is very successful, yet he's unhappy because he bitterly misses his home and family, and fears that the pressures of his current life may change him for the worse.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_3063264a	comment	"Mama, I'm Coming Home" by Ozzy Osbourne is a darker, more ambivalent take on the "coming home to a loved one" formula; the narrator talks about how the relationship is far from perfect (in fact, at times it seems downright toxic), but he's ready to come home to her anyway. While the popular lore says that Ozzy wrote it for his then-wife Sharon Osbourne ("Mama" was his pet name for her), the lyrics were in fact written for Ozzy by Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_3a5b48d9	comment	Vampirina: "Me for Me" from the first episode "Going Batty", sung by Vee over her missing her old home in Transylvania and worries she won't be able to make human friends because of her vampire heritige.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_3a7dd075	comment	Madeline and the Gypsies has "Home, Home, I Want to Go Home," sung by Madeline and Pepito while in a lion costume for the circus they are traveling with. Near the end, as they are heading back to Paris by train, it gets a Triumphant Reprise as "Home, Home, We're Going Home."
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Homesickness Hymn / int_41dc2f4b	comment	Discussed, but ultimately averted in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Millie mentions that folks back home in Kansas thought she would sing one of these when she moves to New York. She considers it after she is mugged, but quickly comes to the conclusion that she is still way better off than she would've been if she had remained in Kansas.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: Invoked in the song "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon", where Ernie sings about all the cool places he'd like to visit... but only if it means he'll return home to his friends.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_4a95c600	comment	The Wiz has Dorothy sing "Soon As I Get Home" as she begins her journey to the Emerald City, hoping that the Wizard can send her home.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_4ef4a5be	comment	In Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Big Bird is trying to find his way back home to Sesame Street after running away from his new adoptive family, the Dodos. Near the end of the film, Big Bird meets up with Sam and Sid Sleaze, a pair of wicked carnival owners who paint him blue and make him the star attraction of their carnival, "The Bluebird of Happiness". The song Big Bird sings, "I'm So Blue", is anything but happy, as he just wants to be back home on Sesame Street. Big Bird gets another in Big Bird in Japan, simply called "Homesick". It serves as a contrast to Kaguya-hime's BSoD Song, "Moon, Moon", about how she doesn't want to go back home.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_503d3d54	comment	"I'm Going Home" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show has Dr. Frank-N-Furter attempt to explain his actions earlier in the story and gain some sympathy by singing about his desire to return to his home planet of Transsexual, and stay forever. However, it's never fully clear if he's being sincere or is just hamming it up as per usual.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_563f7096	comment	Anastasia has "Stay, I Pray You", led by Count Ipolitov as the characters struggle with leaving their home country for good.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_686cfaba	comment	Journey has a handful of examples: "Faithfully" was written by keyboardist Jonathan Cain after considering how the band and crew were sacrificing family life for their music careers. While the song is primarily about missing loved ones, it does offer something of an upside: "Lights", while being fairly light on lyrical content, is another example of songs about being on the road and missing home. In this case, the narrator wants to "get back to my city on the bay." "Wheel in the Sky", in contrast, is less about missing loved ones (although one is mentioned) than simply being tired of constantly being on the road, not knowing where you'll be the following morning.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_7a06c9da	comment	In The Chipmunk Adventure, the Chipettes try to comfort a homesick baby penguin by singing the song "My Mother," which is set over a montage of said penguin chick remembering its happy life in the wild before captivity.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_80dd8f2a	comment	"Desperado" by Eagles is about getting tired of aimless selfish excess and returning to a place of stability and love:
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Homesickness Hymn / int_870b9947	comment	"I'm Already There" by Lonestar. A man on the road because of his work calls his family at home out of loneliness. When his children ask when he's coming home, he tells them he's already there with them in spirit.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_8b1deb48	comment	"People of the South Wind" by Kansas, while crouched in some fantastic imagery, is another song about the emptiness of traveling the world without a place to call home, and wishing it were possible to return to one's youthful home.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_9f66c6fb	comment	The Dillards: A number of the band's songs focus around a country boy missing his home. "Never See My Home Again" is sung by a country boy who waxes nostalgic for the rural beauty and family he has back home, but suspects that the continual road stretching on before him will keep him away for good. "The Old Home Place" tells about a man who left his homestead for a job in town after falling in love with a town girl. However, the girl was unfaithful to him, the homestead was torn down, and now he wishes for death.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_a368fec9	comment	"Inis Mona" by Eluveitie is told from the perspective of a well-respected Druid who spent much of his youth obtaining a Druidic education, and while he doesn't regret that choice, he does find himself yearning for the home and times of his youth.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible records songs the Jews sang after being taken into captivity in Babylon, making this trope Older Than Feudalism. Psalm 137 is one such song, containing the following excerpt: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, sat and wept, as we thought of Zion. There on the poplars we hung up our lyres, for our captors asked us there for songs, our tormentors, for amusement: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.' How can we sing a song of the LORD on alien soil?"
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Homesickness Hymn / int_a8acb8ee	comment	In The Rhythm and Roots of Arthur, Buster doesn't feel like he belongs at the family reunion, while D.W. is bored. They sing a song about how they want to go home, but midway through, realize how cool the reunion is and that they'll stay for a bit longer.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_a9a0d6af	comment	"Goin' Back To Indiana" by The Jackson 5 is sung from the perspective of someone who has struck out to find his fortune, and finds the glamorous life empty because his "baby" isn't with him. So he's goin' back to Indiana where his girl and his other beloved Indiana institutions are.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_ab1d9fc2	comment	Big Bird gets another in Big Bird in Japan, simply called "Homesick". It serves as a contrast to Kaguya-hime's BSoD Song, "Moon, Moon", about how she doesn't want to go back home.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_ac2909b5	comment	Bastion: In its soundtrack, "Mother, I'm Here" and "Setting Sail, Coming Home" (a mash-up of the former with "Build That Wall") are both songs about yearning for and going back home.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_b30a5d2b	comment	In Wonderful Town, Ruth and Eileen sing "Ohio" as they struggle with adjusting to life in New York City. In the bridge, Ruth points out that they hated living in Ohio, but then they go back to reminiscing after being disrupted by the roar of the subway below their apartment.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_ba9da2e1	comment	"Home" by Foo Fighters is about longing to be home, but the song refers not only to being away from home, but the feelings of loss and heartache that come with moving on to new stages in life.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_bc848d30	comment	In the early SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Texas", Sandy sings a Blues song of yearning for her homeland of Texas, and it brings all of Bikini Bottom to tears.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_c2e1c580	comment	Subverted in "Green Green Grass of Home", most famously recorded by Tom Jones, where the narrator sings of home and the people around him, only to realize that it was only a dream as he awaits execution on Death Row.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_ce20b7b7	comment	The second verse of "Dignity" by Deacon Blue reveals that the singer is remembering the street sweeper and his plan to tour Scotland because he himself is in "a far away scene" (presumably somewhere in the Balkans as he's drinking raki) and "thinking about home".
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Homesickness Hymn / int_d11c45fe	comment	Inverted in Jasper in Deadland. The song "Elysium" is about how, after spending a long time away from the Living World, Agnes realizes she doesn't want to return to home to her family.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_d1b08884	comment	When Jalan Crossland isn't lampshading the craziness of the small town West, he's singing about how much you miss it when you leave. "Bosler" (written before the eponymous town was destroyed in a 2012 fire), is framed as a letter by the artist to their girlfriend, asking them to run away to Bosler and live a simple life.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_d3f9d7c	comment	"Paradise" by Tesla takes the cycle of homesickness full circle, as it starts off with the narrator regretfully leaving his lover behind, and spends most of the song missing her over relatively mournful music. However, at the end as he starts his journey home, the band explodes into a fast tempo and acrobatic guitar solos.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_d494343b	comment	Iron Maiden's ''Stranger in a Strange Land" is sung from the perspective of an explorer who is freezing to death in the Arctic, while lamenting how he's alone and far from home and family. In the last verse, he is found frozen to death a century later. A later, more uplifting case is "Coming Home", where Bruce Dickinson sings about flying the band's plane on the verses and how happy is returning to England in the chorus.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_d6457674	comment	A later, more uplifting case is "Coming Home", where Bruce Dickinson sings about flying the band's plane on the verses and how happy is returning to England in the chorus.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_e19c72c	comment	James Taylor's "Carolina in My Mind", expressing how his homesickness is making him pine for the North Carolina where he grew.
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Homesickness Hymn / int_f7effcfd	comment	The Trail to Oregon! has Lost Without You where after being kidnapped, the Daughter sings about how much she misses and can't stop thinking about her family.
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