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[trinsy]

Right. So Thanksgiving is Thursday, and all my friends keep going on about how excited they are to go home, and … it hurts, frankly, because I don’t get to go home. I keep trying to think positive, like, “Less than a month!” and “It wouldn’t be worth it, anyway,” and “I’ll have more fun at my roommate’s,” and those are all true, but … I still get homesick. And it’s not even about not getting to go home, it’s why I can’t go home, and how going home isn’t even going home anyway. And I just keep thinking about all those stupid, boring Thanksgivings with just the five of us – me, my mom, my sisters, and my grandma – and …

Anyway, in my emo-ness and self-pity, I made a mix, not just about homesickness, but also about going out on your own, but still wanting an anchor to come back to, and the ache when that isn’t there. So yes.




A Mix for Someone Who Needs Somewhere to Long For

Homesick – Kings of Convenience

There’s only one thing on my mind
Searching boxes underneath the counter
On a chance that on a tape I’d find

A song for
Someone who needs somewhere
To long for

Homesick
‘Cos I no longer know
Where home is…


More Than This – Vanessa Carlton

Want so much in this life,
There’s so much to be
We sail through our youth so impatiently…

Don’t live in forgotten times
May this always remind you
Of the sea under the sky’s blue looking glass
Let’s make this our story,
Let’s live in the glory
Time, it fades away,
Precious as a song
Cause someday we’ll be gone…


Gravity – Alison Krauss

I left home when I was seventeen
I just grew tired of falling down
And I’m sure I was told
The allure of the road
Would be all I found

And all the answers that I started with
Turned out questions in the end
So years roll on by
And just like the sky
The road never ends…


Something to Believe In – Aqualung

We stumble into our lives,
Reach for a hand to hold.
Any wonder we need to find
A certain something, certain…

Turn out the light
And what are you left with?
Open up my hands
And find out they’re empty.
Press my face to the ground
I’ve gotta find a reason.
Just scratching around
For something to believe in…


Home – Vanessa Carlton

Some people live in a house on the hill
And wish they were some place else
There’s nobody there
When the evening is still
Secrets with no one to tell…

Some I have known have a ship where they sleep
With sounds of rocks on the coast
They sail over oceans five fathoms deep
But can’t find what they want the most…


I Woke Up in a Car – Something Corporate

I met a girl who kept tattoos for homes
That she had loved
If I were her I’d paint my body
Until all my skin was gone…

I’ve never been so lost
I’ve never felt so much at home…


Will I Ever Make It Home – Ingram Hill

Will I ever make it home?
To the place I recognize
Far from here and where I’ve been
And all the places I’ve been shown
Will I ever make it home?
Can they keep me here for good?
Where I hardly know a soul
And my fear keeps going on…

My weariness keeps growing inside
My patience is starting to subside
And I hope I’ll be there soon
It can’t be long or I’ll fall through…


Breathe (I’m All Right) – Greenwheel

Longing for home again
But home
Is a feeling I buried in you…


Sympathy – Goo Goo Dolls

Stranger than your sympathy
And all these thoughts you stole from me
And I’m not sure where I belong
And nowhere’s home and I’m all wrong…


My Favorite Coat – Deb Talan

Me and my coat
We are a symphony
Blanketing the world outside
An oasis in the storm…

Well it’s raining
And raining
Been raining for weeks now
Crying a torrent
And the rain is washing us clean…


Home – Sarah McLachlan

Child walks to the river
And looks as far as she can see
And draws each breath as if it were the last
And wipes away the tears across her sleeve…

She can see where the river crawls to the sea
Like a baby into mother’s care
Somehow the longing is so far away
The innocence so wasted and aware…

And look at the child with the dream in her eyes
Holding it deep inside her
Home… home…


Nobody Sees – Powderfinger

Nobody knows just how it feels today
Nobody sees our hearts break…


Left and Leaving – The Weakerthans

I’m back with scars to show.
Back with the streets I know
Will never take me anywhere but here…

All this time
Lingers, undefined
Someone choose
Who’s left and who’s leaving…

I wait in 4/4 time
Count yellow highway lines
That you’re relying on to lead you home…


A Place Called Home – Kim Richey

Someday I’ll go
Where there ain’t no rain or snow
‘Til then, I travel alone
And I make my bed
With the stars above my head
And dream of a place called home