Johnny Come Home
Longing Echoes: Isobel Campbell's Melancholic Tale in 'Johnny Come Home'
Lyrics
Johnny, I'm alone and I'm feeling blue
Expressing feeling lonely and sad
Now you're grazing on pastures new
Referring to someone moving on to new experiences or relationships
Cut the cord and we let it go
Ending a relationship
A nightingale flying, high and on its own
Metaphor for independence and freedom
When you coming home?
Asking when the person will return
Words came, violently filling up the room
Conflict arising from spoken words
Lovers have their own private mood
Intimacy between lovers
To taste the honey, we must taste blood
Emphasizing the cost or sacrifice required for pleasure or success
The poison nectar
Comparing pleasurable things to something harmful or dangerous
And if we were on fire
Questioning the exhaustion in a troubled relationship
Why we grow so tired?
Expressing weariness or fatigue from the relationship
Johnny, I'm alone and I'm feeling blue
Reiterating loneliness and sadness
Now you're lazing on pastures new
Similar to line 2, indicating the person enjoying a new situation
Lost my devil and lost my saint
Having lost both negative and positive influences
Waiting's like dying
Implying the emotional toll of waiting for someone
If you are alone
Offering a plea for the person's return
Darling, come back home
Directly asking the person to come back home
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