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Home is a song I've always remembered

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    (Guitar music)
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    I was just thinking
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    that I have been missing you way too long
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    There's something inside this weary head
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    that wants us to love just instead
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    But I was just thinking,
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    merely thinking
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    I've got loads of pictures,
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    I've got the one of you
    in that dancing dress
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    But man I feel silly in that dim light
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    Just after doing you
    by the sight of my Kodak delights,
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    I am sinking,
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    merely sinking
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    I think about long distance rates
    instead of kissing you babe
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    I'm a singer without a song
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    If I wait for you longer
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    my affection is stronger
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    and I ... I was just thinking,
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    merely thinking
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    that this boat is sinking
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    I'm tired of postcards,
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    especially the ones
    with cute dogs and cupids
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    I'm tired of calling you and missing you
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    and dreaming I slept with you
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    Don't get me wrong
    I still desperately love you
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    inside this weary head
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    I just want us to love just instead
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    But I was just thinking and thinking,
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    merely thinking
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    I think about long distance rates
    instead of kissing you babe
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    and time is running me still
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    If I wait for you longer
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    my affection is stronger
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    I ... I was just thinking
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    I ... I was just thinking
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    that I'm tired of calling you once a week
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    thinking of long distance rates
    instead of kissing you
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    So baby I'm sinking,
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    merely sinking
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    (Guitar music ends)
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    (Applause)
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    Thank you.
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    Singing is sharing.
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    When you sing, you have to know
    what you're talking about intimately,
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    and you have to be willing
    to share this insight
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    and give away a piece of yourself.
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    I look for this intention
    to share in everything,
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    and I ask: what are the intentions
    behind this architecture or this product
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    or this restaurant or this meal?
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    And if your intentions
    are to impress people
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    or to get the big applause at the end,
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    then you are taking, not giving.
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    And this is a song that's about --
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    it's the kind of song that everyone
    has their version of.
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    This song is called "Home,"
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    and it's sort of a "This is where
    I'm from, nice to meet you all"
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    kind of song.
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    (Laughter)
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    (Applause)
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    (Piano music)
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    Home is the sound of birds
    early in the morning
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    Home is a song I've always remembered
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    Home is the memory
    of my first day in school
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    Home is the books that I carry around
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    Home is an alley in a faraway town
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    Home is the places I’ve been
    and where I’d like to go
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    Home
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    I'm always gonna feel at home
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    No matter where I may roam
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    I'm always gonna find my way back home
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    No matter how far I’m gone
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    I’m always gonna feel this longing
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    No matter where I might say
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    Home is a feather twirling in the air
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    Home is flowers in a windowsill
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    Home is all the things she said to me
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    Home is a photo I never threw away
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    Home is the smile on my face when I die
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    Home is the taste of an apple pie
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    I met a woman, she always lived
    in the same place
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    And she said home is where
    you’re born and raised
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    And I met a man, he sat
    looking out to the sea
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    And he said home is where you want to be
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    I met a girl in some downtown bar
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    And she said I’ll have
    whatever he's having
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    And I asked her how come
    we never met before?
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    And she said all my life I’ve been trying
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    to get a place of my own
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    I’m always gonna feel at home
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    No matter where I may roam
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    Always gonna find my way back home
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    No matter how far I’m gone
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    I'm always gonna feel this longing
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    No matter where I might stay
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    (Piano music)
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    (Piano music ends)
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    (Applause)
Title:
Home is a song I've always remembered
Speaker:
Teitur
Description:

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
10:49

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