What is the meaning of homeward bound song written by marta keen?

Answer 1

"When adventure's lost its meaning,

I'll be homeward bound in time."

This part I sort of interpret it to mean: when one is done living this physical life, done with one's curiosity, done with the adventures that this physical body has taken us to, whether it's direct physical pleasure or the pleasure of our feet taking us on a stroll, or taking us to a foreign country for adventure (such as Marco Polo did), or pleasure of communicating with other beings (man & animal) or writing or show-offing ... when we're all done with this, we return to beings in the spirit world, the world we were in before we became a physical being. It's like the end of a journey called LIFE as we currently know it. In some way, it's kind of a funeral song. When I 1st become attracted to this song, I didn't think of this song as a funeral song ... it was just a very pretty song ; but I had to dissect it, and it sort of makes me a little sad that I went ahead to figure the meaning. I like to hear others' interpretations.

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I loved your interpretation. Thanks for sharing! I would also love to hear other's interpretations just like you. Here's my interpretation - I apologize if it's too preachy - it's no way intended to be, it's just what I feel.

My wife found this song first, and like you, I just thought it was a pretty song. But something really sunk deep into my sub conscious and I wanted to listen again. Like you, I found myself compelled to find the lyrics and dissect it. I'm sorry you found this to be a sad funeral song. Might I ask your religious philosophy of life?

I'm a Transhumanist (and Mormon, and an Atheist) that not only deeply believes in an afterlife, but also believes the afterlife is up to all of us, and that our parents... were our creators, in the home. I do believe in God, but only that we, as part of Mother Nature, are God, and that we are all still very much only Gods in embryo, about to literally usher in the Millennium, thanks to our parents lives lived to give us our abilities and all we have at home.

Some of my favorite scriptures are the ones that talk about the hearts of the children turning to their fathers, and visa versa.

"If you find it's me you're missing,

if you're hoping I'll return"

I now think of my Grandmother Grace (I didn't yet know my other grandparents very well), and now my mother in law Myrna. It's like this song has made me finally realize - I do miss them.

Raymond Kurzweil is predicting that exponential scientific progress is about to start accelerating so fast that there will be a kind of 'singularity' around 2045. But I much prefer traditional terms like "ushering in the millennium". You can't see a singularity from any single vantage point in it, and I think it is already here - as we are so close - and we will all be a big part of making it happen. The two important milestones remaining are first - achieving immortality when the last person dies. I'm a type 1 diabetic on insulin - and it takes so much time and money to deal with such, not to mention, feeding the family with the plow. Was this our calling?

"Bind me not to the pasture.

Chain me not to the plow.

Set me free to find my calling

and I'll return to you somehow"

The second milestone, would be us realizing we had made it - that we had survived the adventure, and our hearts then turning to our fathers.

"When adventure's lost its meaning,

I'll be homeward bound in time."

and then turning our newly achieved godly powers and immortality to achieving the resurrection of the dead, more as a selfish act - than anything. So we won't be so lonely. But ultimately, also, to relieve ourselves from our unjust debt we owe to our creators for living the life they lived at home, for so long, to freely give us all we now have.

"Then the wind will set me racing

as my journey nears its end,

and the path I'll be retracing

when I'm homeward bound again."

People only say: "You can never go home" because nobody has yet ever gone home. But I certainly hope we someday can. I guess it is kind of a sad song, because we don't yet know if all such will be possible. In other words faith is still required, till we do achieve it all. But regardless - it sure is great to have hope, a moral direction, and a new purpose in this life, or the next, now that the singularity is here, and the adventure is about to finally reach its dramatic climax, and soon be over.

So, for me, Homeward Bound isn't a sad funeral song, and that soon there will never be any more funerals, or any isolation from home - for anyone - ever again - all thanks to what all of our parents did for us - at home.