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[6] Can't Find My Way Home
[6] Can't Find My Way Home
Words and Music By Steve Winwood
Rendition by Monty Dicksion, June 2021
As I invariably do when I cover other peoples' songs, I do it a little bit differently, and usually that's because I just don't know the way that the song is supposed to go, so I just guess at how to do it.
That's OK with me. I like doing that.
I suppose the chords as I play them here are just slightly not quite right. But an interesting thing happens in this version as it has to do with the beat. After the first time through the first verse and the chorus, the downbeat finds itself occurring on beat 2. Then, by the time the song gets through its second verse and chorus, the downbeat has returned to beat 1 again.
The main challenge I had with making the video for this song was trying to think of what to show. To my mind, the song's lyrics don't make any sense, and they're a bit peculiar, to boot. So, what to do?
So I made my own animation with oblong, oval and circular moving shapes that simulate colored spotlights.
And then, with the main recurring line in the song, "I can't find my way home," I was able to relate to a feeling that most of us have, one of not being able to go back to a more ideal time, if such a time ever did really used to exist at all. But it's a concept I've found to be true for myself, captured by the old saying, "You can never go home again." And I find that to be a tremendously sad thing when I come to think about it.
So, to deal with that line, I thought of the old Twilight Zone episode, "A Stop at Willoughby" (season 1 episode 30, 1960). On different occasions, the main character, Gart Williams, does find himself back at that idyllic time and place, which he later describes to his wife as looking like "a Currier and Ives painting."
That was it. It was perfect. So I found several Currier and Ives paintings which depict the sort of homes Gart Williams (and maybe myself too) might be searching for.