Three Heartwarming Sixties* Rock Songs

Welcome home

Lannie Rose
3 min readJul 13, 2024
I with I was homeward bound

Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel, 1966)

I’m sittin’ in the railway station
Got a ticket to my destination
On a tour of one-night stands
My suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned
For a poet and a one-man band

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought’s escapin’
Home where my music’s playin’
Home where my love lies waitin’
Silently for me

Every day’s an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines
And each town looks the same to me
The movies and the factories
And every stranger’s face I see
Reminds me that I long to be

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought’s escapin’
Home where my music’s playin’
Home where my love lies waitin’
Silently for me

Tonight I’ll sing my songs again
I’ll play the game and pretend
But all my words come back to me
In shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony
I need someone to comfort me

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought’s escapin’
Home where my music’s playin’
Home where my love lies waitin’
Silently for me
Silently for me

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Paul Simon

Homeward Bound lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Capitol CMG Publishing, Kanjian Music, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

We’re on our way home

Two of Us (The Beatles, 1970*)

Two of us riding nowhere
Spending someone’s hard-earned pay
You and me Sunday driving
Not arriving on our way back home

We’re on our way home
We’re on our way home
We’re going home

Two of us sending postcards
Writing letters on my wall
You and me burning matches
Lifting latches on our way back home

We’re on our way home
We’re on our way home
We’re going home

You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead

Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing solo in the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere on our way back home

We’re on our way home
We’re on our way home
We’re going home

You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead

Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing solo in the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere on our way back home

We’re on our way home
We’re on our way home
We’re going home

We’re going home

Better believe it
Goodbye

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Paul Mccartney / John Lennon

Two of Us lyrics © Sony/atv Tunes Llc

Our house is a very, very, very fine house

Our House (CSNY, 1970*)

I’ll light the fire
You place the flowers in the vase
That you bought today

Staring at the fire
For hours and hours while I listen to you
Play your love songs all night long for me
Only for me

Come to me now (come to me now)
And rest your head for just five minutes
Everything is done
Such a cozy room (such a cozy room)
The windows are illuminated
By the evening sunshine through them
Fiery gems for you, only for you

Our house is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy ’cause of you
And our

La-la, la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la

Our house is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy ’cause of you
And our

I’ll light the fire
While you place the flowers in the vase
That you bought today

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Graham William Nash

Our House lyrics © Nash Notes

* It is well known that The Sixties officially lasted until January 27, 1973, when the Paris Peace Accords were signed, ending the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war, and the U.S. military draft ended.

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Lannie Rose
Lannie Rose

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