Name: A Land Called Home
Duration: P00H03M06S
Description: Written & performed by Roy Smiles. Guitar, keyboards & produced by Simon Walker, at Loophole Studios, Brighton. For Rachel Hughes.

A Land Called Home

from Drunks & Dreamers by Roy Smiles

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Written & performed by Roy Smiles. Guitar, keyboards & produced by Simon Walker, at Loophole Studios, Brighton. For Rachel Hughes.

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A Land Called Home

I wandered streets of silent dread
Where every heart was left for dead
In search of comfort, love or bed
Looking for a land called home
Looking for a land called home.

I searched through harsh and broken lands
Where all my dreams had turned to sand
Drunk and dazed and sometimes damned
Looking for a land called home
Looking for a land called home.

Chorus
Home is where the heart is
But I’m a man without a heart
If I had a heart, girl
We’d have never come to part
Home is where the heart is
But I’m a man who stands apart
How can I ever find a home?
When I don't know where to start?

I scoured the earth and all its bars
In trains and planes, coaches and cars
Scarred as the sun, lost as the stars
Looking for a land called home
Looking for a land called home.

(Instrumental)

Chorus

Walked north and south and east and west
But where I walked I found no rest
A Don Quixote’s desperate quest
Looking for a land called home
Looking for a land called home
Looking for a land called home
Looking for a land called home.

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from Drunks & Dreamers, released June 5, 2015

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Roy Smiles London, UK

Roy Smiles has recorded ten albums:
'Drunks & Dreamers' (2011), 'Time's Moving On' (2012),'Seize The Day' (2013), 'Autumn Song' (2014), 'Bremen' (2014), 'The Trains & The Rain' (2015), 'Northern Angels'.(2018), 'Lost Souls' (2020), 'November's Child' (2023) & 'Tales Of The Ocean' (2023).
All available on Bandcamp.
Contact: roy.smiles@aol.co.uk. ... more

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