[1985-1989 Best Songs]
Billboard Top 100, 1986, #88
Phil Collins' Take Me Home is supposed to be about someone who's in a mental institution, but somehow it always came off to me as a tribute to the typical working man, trying to get by against so many unknown forces. Am I crazy?
Take that look of worry
I'm an ordinary man
They don't tell me nothing
So I find out what I can
There's a fire that's been burning
Right outside my door
I can't see but I feel it
And it helps to keep me warm
So I, I don't mind
No I, I don't mind
Seems so long I've been waiting
Still don't know what for
There's no point escaping
I don't worry anymore
I can't come out to find you
I don't like to go outside
They can't turn off my feelings
Like they're turning off a light
Take that look of worry, mine's an ordinary life
Working when it's daylight
And sleeping when it's night
I've got no far horizons
I don't wish upon a star
They don't think that I listen
Oh but I know who they are
And I, I don't mind
No I, I don't mind
So take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
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