Best songs about leaving home...

[Stevie_Buck]

You guys have any ideas? I'm looking to make a CD for my best friend, but I'm not having much luck finding good songs.


Help! :D

[michelle2677]

*sob* im right there with ya! The only thing that comes to mind right off the bat is wide open spaces-dixie chicks. But im sure there are much better ones. I just cant think of any. Good luck!

[ryan8472]

Jet Airliner, by Steve Miller Band. :nod:

[BlackWidow]

Leaving on a jet plane

[BlackWidow]

It's My Turn

[BlackWidow]

She's leaving home..Beatles

[BlackWidow]

Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp

[DrummerDeanna]

She's leaving home..Beatles

Dang. You stole my answer.

Anyway - that's a great one.

And this one may not be so much about leaving but..."So Far Away" Carole King.

[BlackWidow]

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

[BlackWidow]

Seasons In The Sun - terry jacks

[BlackWidow]

Aint No Mountain High Enough

"I know..I know you must follow the sun..wherever it leads.."

[DavidMn]

Movin' Out- Billy Joel

[carrie721]

And this one may not be so much about leaving but..."So Far Away" Carole King.

loves it! i put that on a cd for a friend who moved away. i love me some CK.

[desertangel]

Ummm... Beautiful Child? :confused: :shrug:

[LngPrmsdRd]

"Soul Drifter" was my leaving home song when I moved out in 2000. "So it's off to other lands, you see...it's a new dawn, so it's so long..." Perfect if you ask me!

I also second "Wide Open Spaces", Dixie Chicks...that was another of my moving songs. I wish I could think of more right now, I know there were *tons*...!

~Bree

[BlackWidow]

Storms

"So I try to say "Goodbye my friend"......I'd like to leave you with something warm.

[sara1998]

Crash and Burn - Sheryl Crow... kinda

[michelle2677]

Storms

"So I try to say "Goodbye my friend"......I'd like to leave you with something warm.
yeah that one line from the entire song. But the rest of it? not fit for a best friend. :shrug:

[BlackWidow]

Hometown - Bruce Springsteen

[BlackWidow]

yeah that one line from the entire song. But the rest of it? not fit for a best friend. :shrug:

..a DEADLY CALL INSIDE. (feel that love...?):nod: :D :laugh:

[michelle2677]

..a DEADLY CALL INSIDE. (feel that love...?):nod: :D :laugh:
did i ever really care that much?! She said 'every night he will break your heart'... NO. Im not feeling the love

[BlackWidow]

did i ever really care that much?! She said 'every night he will break your heart'... NO. Im not feeling the love

Good Gravy..I do!!!!!:wavey: :laugh:

[ryan8472]

Good Gravy..I do!!!!!:wavey: :laugh:

Dear Lindsey,

I hate you with a passion and you ruined my life.

No love,
Stevie
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They are so cute. :lol:

[jannieC]

That song by Kelly Clarkson- I can't think of it right now though. Yes, I admit it, I like her. :shrug:

[priestofnothing]

A really pretty, poignant, sad piano (and somewhat Stevie-cized) song that I love:

Only A Dream
(Mary Chapin Carpenter)
I can recall the sound of the wind
As it blew through the trees and the trees would bend
I can recall the smell of the rain
On a hot summer night
Coming through the screen

I'd crawl in your bed when the lightning flashed
And i'd still be there when the storm had passed
Dead to the world, till the morning cast
Its light all around your room

We lived on a street where the tall elm shade
Was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade
That you held in your teeth as we lay on our backs
Staring up at the blue and the blue stared back

I used to believe we were just like those trees
We'd grown just as tall and as proud as we pleased
With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze
Under a sheltering sky

Twirl me about, and twirl me around
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
And when i look up at you looking down,
Say it was only a dream

A big truck was parked in the drive one day
They wrapped us in paper and moved us away
Your room was no longer next door to mine
And this kid sister thing was old by that time

But oh how our dreams went bump in the night
And the voices downstairs getting into a fight
And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife
And feel like a blade at your throat

Twirl me about and twirl me around
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
When i look up at you looking down
Say it was only a dream

The day you left home you got an early start
I watched your car back out in the dark
I opened the door to your room down the hall
I turned on the light
And all that i saw
Was a bed and a desk and couple of tacks
No sign of someone who expects to be back
It must have been one hell of a suitcase you packed

Twirl me about, twirl me around
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
When i look up at you looking down
Say it was only a dream

[irishgrl]

Leavin on a Jet Plane
that was my first thought too.....

Howzabout: "she's leaving home after living alone for so many years" Beatles

oooooh and I just thot of another fave: 500 miles, especially when done by the Hooters, but Peter Paul and Mary do a nice job too....

EDIT: Andre, get OUTA my HEAD! every idea I have you have too! not fair not fair!

[jannieC]

Oh also, Strawberry Wine by Deana Carter. But it may not work if your friend is male. But still, it's a kind of bittersweet song about leaving and then going back and things not being the same.

Not a country fan here, but that song gets me every time.

[irishgrl]

Seasons In The Sun - terry jacks
that has to be my all time WORST song, I absolutely LOATHE that song.

[michelle2677]

Oh man. Somewhere out there. Am i the only one that cried during an american tail!? I still do, actually :o

[irishgrl]

Freebird
Ramblin Man

[michelle2677]

Jannie-were talking about break away on kelly clarkson?

[jannieC]

Oh man. Somewhere out there. Am i the only one that cried during an american tail!? I still do, actually :o

That song reminds me of my step-daughter. I still cry when I hear it.

Jannie-were talking about break away on kelly clarkson?
Yes, that's it. :nod:

[ragandbone]

Some of these may not have the slant you want for the collection, but these are some favorites.

Wildflowers
Dolly Parton

Useless Desire
Patty Griffin

'39
Queen

Frank's Wild Years
Tom Waits

Burn Down This Town
Roseanne Cash

Boots of Spanish Leather
Bob Dylan

Leaving Nancy
Eric Bogle

[foxyluva]

OMG, I just thought of the best one ever:

Crowded House - You'd Better Be Home Soon

Perfect :thumbsup:

[face of glass]

As cliched as it is, it's Summertime for me. Although it's about a million other things as well.
One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky

But till that morning
There's a'nothing can harm you
With daddy and mamma standing by

[gldstwmn]

Sheryl Crow - Home

[BlackWidow]

Sheyl Crow - Home

I feel like I just read your diary...:shocked:

[estranged4life]

"Escape"-Journey

[gldstwmn]

I feel like I just read your diary...:shocked:

You did. But now it's gone and it doesn't matter what for... :laugh:

[ontheEdgeof17]

How about that song "It was good living with you...ot oh....it was goooooodddd"? I dunno who sings it. :shrug:

[DrummerDeanna]

How about that song "It was good living with you...ot oh....it was goooooodddd"? I dunno who sings it. :shrug:

Better Than Ezra :nod:

[ontheEdgeof17]

Better Than Ezra :nod:

Thanks! :xoxo:

They used to play that song on every Real World finale, it seemed. :laugh:

[BlackWidow]

You did. But now it's gone and it doesn't matter what for... :laugh:

..and when you finish your diary..then call me ..home!:angel:

[mikeschmike]

Heartbreak Town- Dixie Chicks.
You can't always get what you want- The Stones
High and Dry- Radiohead

[bretonbanquet]

The best song about leaving home must be "Leaving Home Ain't Easy" by Queen - it's actually one of the few songs that brings a lump to my throat when I hear it. Brian May's finest hour as a songwriter.

I take a step outside
And I breathe the air
I slam the door
And I’m on my way
I won’t lay no blame
I won’t call you names
’Cause I’ve made my break
And I won’t look back
I’ve turned my back
On those endless games

I’m all through with ties
I’m all tired of tears
I’m a happy man
Don’t it look that way?
Shake the dust from my shoes
There’s a road ahead
And there’s no way back home
Ohh but I have to say

Leaving home ain’t easy
Oh I never thought it would be easy
Leaving on your own
Oh is the main thing calling me back?
Leaving home ain’t easy
On the one you're leaving home

Stay my love my love please stay
Don't stray my love
What’s wrong my love?
What’s right my love? Ohh

Leaving home ain’t easy
I thought how could I think of leaving
Leaving on your own
Still trying to persuade me that
Leaving home ain’t necessarily the only way

Leaving home ain’t easy
But may be the only way

[PsychCat]

A really pretty, poignant, sad piano (and somewhat Stevie-cized) song that I love:

Only A Dream
(Mary Chapin Carpenter)

LOVE. ME. SOME. CHAPIN!! :nod:

How about Go Your Own Way?
Ummm... on second thought .... that's probably not what you had in mind.... ;)