I Wanna Go Home Again

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As we wind down the first phase of our adventure, we are looking at an arrangement that evokes early Motown, with a lyric that appears to be nostalgic about going home, a sentiment common to many of the soldiers fighting the immoral Iraqi War of 2002-2010. It evokes pictures and situations which pertain to the spirit of war, the transference of identity from enemy to enemy. Who the enemy is becomes more and more difficult when war itself is revealed to be the element that fogs reason and distorts reality.

I Wanna Go Home Again

See that man with the dirty long hair?
Right now, I wanna go home again.
That man used to be a millionaire.
Right now, I wanna go home again.
He fell in a hole because he’s blind.
Right now, I wanna go home again.
And now he’s gone and lost his mind.
Right now, I wanna go home again.

It’s the sands of murder, the flaming desert,
Cain and Able and the evil eye.
They got me here, gave me weapons and money.
Told me to set it on fire.

They took my clothes they took my car.
Right now I wanna go home again
They left me naked in the prison yard.
Right now I wanna go home again

When you’re going down but you can’t admit it,
and you do yourself like your enemy did,
reality is coming right back at you.
You don’t even know where it is.

There’s a desperate man in a world of pain.
Right now, I wanna go home again.
He was God’s own fool, but it all went to his head.
Right now, I wanna go home,
I wanna go home, I wanna go home again.

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