Coming Home

Journey of Rediscovery: Busted's 'Coming Home'
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Lyrics

Been searching high and low

Expressing the speaker's extensive search for something significant.

So many answers I don't know

Highlighting the speaker's uncertainty and lack of knowledge in finding answers.

I wonder who I'm gonna be

Pondering about the speaker's identity and future self.

When it's time to go

Contemplating the speaker's identity in the face of an approaching departure.

Does it matter?

Raising a rhetorical question about the importance of identity.


Trading my coat for a cheap guitar

Describing a change or sacrifice (coat for guitar) for a musical pursuit in a less glamorous setting.

To play a show in a shitty bar

Depicting a performance in a less desirable venue (shitty bar).

Ended up in a hospital

Narrating an unexpected turn leading to a hospital stay with no companionship.

With no-one at all

Emphasizing the speaker's isolation during the hospitalization.


I'm coming home

Announcing the speaker's return home, indicating a desire for familiarity and comfort.


Went past the Taj Mahal

Recalling a visit to the Taj Mahal and acknowledging its beauty.

It's so fuckin' beautiful

Expressing admiration for the Taj Mahal while recognizing the absence of family.

But I miss my family

Conveying a yearning for the speaker's family amidst the beauty of the surroundings.

There's nothing else to see

Stating that family is the only significant thing for the speaker.


I'm coming home

Reaffirming the speaker's intention to return home.

I'm coming home

Repetition for emphasis on the speaker's impending return.

I'm coming home

Repetition for emphasis on the speaker's longing for home.

I'm coming home

Repetition for emphasis on the speaker's desire to be home.


I wanna be in your

Expressing a desire to be in the loving arms of someone significant.

Loving arms

Repetition emphasizing the speaker's longing to be in loving arms.

I wanna be in your

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Loving arms

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I wanna be in your

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Loving arms

Empty line, possibly for emotional effect or transition.

I wanna be in your

Reiterating the desire to be in the loving arms of someone important.

Loving arms

Repetition emphasizing the speaker's longing to be in loving arms.


I'm coming home

Restating the speaker's imminent return home.

(I miss my family) I'm coming home

Expressing the speaker's longing for family while acknowledging their absence.

(There's nothing else to see) I'm coming home

Highlighting the significance of family and the lack of interest in other attractions.

(I've been searching high and low) I'm coming home

Reaffirming the speaker's extensive search and the decision to return home.

(Now I'm coming home)

Concluding with a firm statement about the speaker's return home.

The lyrics of this song contain explicit content.
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