"Take the Long Way Home" is the fourth single and sixth track of Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America. It was the last song written for the album, being penned during the nine-month recording cycle.[1] It reached number 10 on the U.S. charts.[2]
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I always saw the song a little ambiguous. It's on two levels. I see 'home' as being internal and external. It's kind of a play on words. Definitely part of the song is about the shallowness of success and getting caught up in a world and success and chasing, being popular, or whatever, is taking 'the long way home'. Because I think 'home' in its deepest sense is inside, is being at peace with oneself. Again it's ambiguous - 'if you're not around' means… you're dead or you couldn't settle down - you couldn't take it and you're off looking for things that are more important. It's a fun song! I remember having a lot of fun writing it but never really having a clear picture of it. It was more… often when I write songs, I go by gut instinct... the best lines come to me rather than me trying to think them up consciously and I just feel they're right and I go with them whether I totally understand the meaning or not.
In the late '90's, the band Trixter included a version of it on their release "Under Covers - Everything By, Nothing From".
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- Roger Hodgson - vocals, piano
- Rick Davies - harmonica, Hammond organ, synthesizers
- Dougie Thomson - bass guitar
- Bob Siebenberg - drums
- John A. Helliwell - clarinet, soprano saxophone
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