It’s been a few years since I’ve recorded a video of one of my songs. But I have so many! Since I stopped making CDs and cassettes, I like the idea of trying to make public some of my unrecorded songs. This one, as sung in December 2020, recalls back nostalgically to the time before COVID-19 and travelling, a time when I was doing a lot of travelling, and the pleasure it was to return home to the embrace of my partner.
I wrote it in September 2007 after coming home from a meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It’s funny that I wonder in the song if “this traveller will retire”. In March 2011, I did my last trip for the work that had brought me so often overseas. And then in the last five years or so, my husband started travelling all the time (a third of the year) for his new work. So our roles were reversed, and hopefully he was as happy as I was, to arrive back into my arms.
Back into your arms
I thought it was time for a new song
that the old ones wouldn’t do
So I stayed home, was late to work
to see what would come through
You see I’ve just gotten back again
Off a very long flight
I didn’t know what country I was in
When I woke in the middle of the night
These days I do so much traveling
I’m always trying to adjust to the hour
Unpacking, and packing, and checking in
Will the kids on this flight get much louder?
There weren’t always a set of strong reasons
To come rushing back
Now there’s a small part of me
That is always keeping track…
It is so sweet to come home… Back into your arms
You make it so good to come home. You are my lucky charm.
So good to come home… Back into your arms.
I don’t know if it will ever change
If this traveler will retire
But it means a lot to me
That you can let me fly
We are travelling too
You’ve got a ticket to my heart
You’ve offered me the same
I am ready to depart…
It is so sweet to come home… Back into your arms
You make it so good to come home. You are my lucky charm.
So good to come home… Back into your arms.
So good to come home… Back into your arms.