Take The Long Way Home
Composer(s): Rick Davies - Roger Hodgson
Supertramp - 1979



So you think you're a Romeo 
playing a part in a picture-show 
Take the long way home 
Take the long way home 

Cos you're the joke of the neighborhood 
Why should you care if you're feeling good 
Take the long way home 
Take the long way home 

But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery 
all the greenery is comin' down, boy 
And then your wife seems to think you're part of the 
furniture oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so nice

When lonely days turn to lonely nights 
you take a trip to the city lights 
And take the long way home 
Take the long way home 

You never see what you want to see 
Forever playing to the gallery 
You take the long way home 
Take the long way home 

And when you're up on the stage, it's so unbelievable 
unforgettable, how they adore you, 
But then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity
oh, calamity, is there no way out? 

Does it feel that you life's become a catastrophe? 
Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy
When you look through the years and see what you could 
have been oh, what might have been
if you'd had more time

So, when the day comes to settle down
Who's to blame if you're not around? 
You took the long way home