Song Analysis "Home"

In highlighting the relief of a traveler in “Home”, Dierks Bentley uses emotional, first person point of view, and the explanation of the country, to say the value of “The place we all call home”. The song comes from the point of view of a traveler who goes across the country, talking about how great the land that we call home really is. The song starts out by talking about how the land is very different in many ways, “from the mountains high, to the wave crashed coast”. The part of the song that say’s “Free, nothing feels like free, though it sometimes mean we don’t get along”, is saying that we feel like we are free.  But sometimes we aren’t because sometimes we don’t get along with everyone. The song then talks about how it’s “Been a long hard ride, got a ways to go”. Meaning that it’s been a long ride and things have been tough. But, we still have a ways to go, to keep the things that we have and the things that we fight for. The song then talks about how, “Brave, gotta call it brave, to chase that dream across the sea”. Talking about the brave men and women that defend our country and defend our rights as Americans. Many Americans sacrifice their lives to defend our country every day. The song then ends with similar lines from the beginning of the song. “This is still the place, that we all call home”. This is referring to the fact that we might have some things that we don’t like or don't agree with. The land and country is “Still the place that we all call home”.      



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