Cm7 Bb/C
So you think you're a Romeo
F/C C
playing a part in a picture-show
Bbsus2/C Bb/C Bbsus2/C
Take the long way home
C
Take the long way home
Cm7 Bb/C
If you're the joke of the neighborhood
F/C C
Why should you care if you're feeling good
Bbsus2/C Bb/C Bbsus2/C
Take the long way home
C
Take the long way home
Em Em7 Am G6
But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery
F F6 Bb F/A
all the greenery is comin' down, boy
G Em7
And then your wife seems to think you're part of the
Am G6 F Fmaj7 F6 Bb F/A G
furniture oh, it's pe culiar, she used to be so nice.
Cm7 Bb/C
When lonely days turn to lonely nights
F/C C
you take a trip to the city lights
Bbsus2/C Bb/C Bbsus2/C
And take the long way home
C
Take the long way home
Cm7 Bb/C
You never see what you want to see
F/C C
Forever playing to the gallery
Bbsus2/C Bb/C Bbsus2/C
You take the long way home
C
Take the long way home
Em Em7 Am
And when you're up on the stage, it's so unbe lievable,
G6 F F6 Bb F/A
Ohh unfor gettable, how they a dore you,
G Em7 Am
But then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity,
G6 F Fmaj7 F6 Bb F/A G
oh, ca lamity, is there no way out?
Em Em7 Am
Does it feel that you life's become a ca tastrophe?
G6 F F6 F Bb F/A
Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy.
G Em7 Am
When you look through the years and see what you could
G6 F Fadd9 F6
have been oh, what might have been,
Bb F/A G
if you'd had more time.
Cm7 Bb/C
So, when the day comes to settle down,
F/C C
Who's to blame if you're not around?
Bbsus2/C Bb/C Bbsus2/C
You took the long way home
Ab/C
You took the long way home...........
F/C
You took the long way home...........
Bbsus2/C Bb/C Bbsus2/C
You took the long way home...........
Ab/C
You took the long way home...........
F/C
You took the long way home...........
Bbsus2/C Bb/C Bbsus2/C
You took the long way home...........
F/C
You took the long way home...........
F6/C C
aaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaaaaaa
F6/C C
ooo ooooo ooooo ooooo
F6/C C
aaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaaaaaa
Bbsus2/C Bb/C Ab/C F/C
long way home long way home long way home
Bbsus2/C Bb/C Ab/C F/C
long way home long way home long way home
harmonica: g4........
Bbsus2/C Bb/C C
long way ho-o-o-o-ome
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\"Take the Long Way Home\" is the fourth single and sixth track of Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America. It was the last song written for the album, being penned during the nine-month recording cycle. According to its composer Roger Hodgson, the song deals with how the desire to go home can go both ways:
I'm talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, take the long way home to the wife because she treats you like part of the furniture, but there's a deeper level to the song, too. I really believe we all want to find our home, find that place in us where we feel at home, and to me, home is in the heart and that is really, when we are in touch with our heart and we're living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home.
