Take Me Back
Yearning for Home: The Bayou Ballad of Longing and Southern Comfort
Lyrics
It's been ten long years, since your sun has shined my face
Expressing the passage of a significant amount of time since feeling the warmth of familiarity.
Since I made my way out west, since I been tied to fate
Reflecting on a journey to the western region and a connection to destiny or circumstance.
Here don't hold a candle, to that home I left behind
Comparing the current place to a cherished home left in the past, suggesting a longing for it.
I need that southern comfort, to ease my troubled mind
Desiring emotional solace reminiscent of the comforting atmosphere of the southern home.
Yeah
Expression of agreement or affirmation.
I hear people saying, you can't never go back home
Disagreeing with the notion that one can't return home, emphasizing a unique life experience.
I don't think they've ever lived this life I've come to know
Asserting that the current situation is distinctive and challenges the common perception.
This will be my resting place, no matter where I roam
Affirming a commitment to making the current place a final resting place, regardless of travels.
So if I die before I get there, won't you send my body home
Requesting to be laid to rest in the southern home if death occurs before reaching it.
So take me back, take me back baby, where the child in me lives & breathes
Expressing a desire to return to a place where the innocence of childhood is still alive.
Take me back, take me back honey, way out past New Orleans
Reiterating the plea to be taken back, specifically to a location beyond New Orleans.
Where it's dark at night, except the pale moonlight
Depicting the environment as dark at night, illuminated only by a faint moonlight.
Where the swamp plays a perfect scene
Highlighting the swamp as a picturesque backdrop, setting a perfect scene.
So Take me back, take me back momma, way out past New Orleans
Repeating the request to be taken back, addressing the maternal figure as "momma."
It's been ten long years, since your sun has shined my face
Reiterating the time elapsed since feeling the warmth of the sun from the cherished past.
Since I made my way out west, since I been tied to fate
Recalling the journey westward and a sense of being bound by destiny or circumstance.
Here don't hold a candle, to that home I left behind
Comparing the current place unfavorably to the beloved home left in the past.
I need that southern comfort, to ease my troubled mind
Expressing the need for the comforting atmosphere of the southern home to ease inner turmoil.
So take me back, take me back baby, where the child in me lives & breathes
Repeating the desire to return to a place where the inner child thrives and breathes.
Take me back, take me back honey, way out past New Orleans
Emphasizing the plea to be taken back, specifying a location beyond New Orleans.
Where it's dark at night, except the pale moonlight
Describing the nighttime atmosphere as dark, with only the pale moonlight illuminating.
Where the swamp plays a perfect scene
Portraying the swamp as an ideal backdrop, creating a perfect and evocative scene.
So Take me back, take me back momma, way out past New Orleans
Repeating the request to be taken back, addressing the maternal figure as "momma."
Where the southern pride
Acknowledging a deep-rooted sense of pride associated with the southern heritage.
It runs deep inside
Highlighting the profound and enduring nature of the southern pride.
So don't you tread on me Motherfucker
Asserting a strong stance against any disrespect or infringement on the southern identity.
So take me back, take me back baby, where the child in me lives & breathes
Reiterating the desire to return to a place where the inner child thrives and breathes.
Take me back, take me back honey, way out past New Orleans
Persistently expressing the plea to be taken back, specifying a location beyond New Orleans.
Where it's dark at night, except the pale moonlight
Repeating the depiction of the nighttime atmosphere and the picturesque swamp scene.
Where the swamp plays a perfect scene
Affirming the ideal setting of the swamp as a backdrop, contributing to a perfect scene.
So Take me back, take me back momma, way out past New Orleans
Concluding with a repetition of the plea to be taken back, addressing the maternal figure as "momma."
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