![]() ![]() And then his wife seems to think he’s losing his sanity… Does it feel that you life’s become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy.” – This is the phase of our lives when we accept the fact that we’ll never be what we wanted and become ordinary, we take it very hard, but we grow into it. “When he’s up on the stage, it’s so unbelievable, unforgettable, how they adore him. “But there are times that he feels he’s part of the scenery, all the greenery is comin’ down” – It seems that in real life he’s “the joke of the neighborhood” (“why should you care if you’re feeling good” is him trying to rationalize) and his wife “seems to this that he’s a part of the furniture.” In real life he “never sees what he wants to see.” It was another angle on the question that ran deep inside me, which is, ‘Where’s my home? Where’s peace?’ It felt like I was taking a long way to find it.” This implies that our hero avoids getting home because when he’s on the road he has a few more moments of being alone with his dreams, and in his dreams he’s a superstar. I really believe we all want to find our home, find that place in us where we feel at home, and to me, home is in the heart and that is really, when we are in touch with our heart and we’re living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home.Īt the press meeting when Breakfast In America was presented, Roger Hodgson explained that this song is about a guy who thinks he’s really cool (“So you think you’re a romeo, playing a part in a picture show”), but it seems that he’s the only one who thinks that. Roger Hobson: I’m talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, take the long way home to the wife because she treats you like part of the furniture, but there’s a deeper level to the song, too. The band refused a $5 million offer from the Greyhound company to use this song in bus commercials. The result was a fresh sounding album that was a massive hit. They all played the backing tracks live in the studio. The reason for this is because there was no There were no click tracks and or splicing of the backing tracks. It was written shortly before Supertramp went in the studio to record the Breakfast In America album, Roger Hodgson said the song was a last minute addition.Īccording to Producer Peter Henderson the album took 9 months to record. Breakfast in America peaked at #1 in the Billboard Album Charts, Canada, New Zealand, and #3 in New Zealand. The song peaked at #10 in the Billboard 100 and #4 in Canada in 1979. They had a Lennon/McCartney song writing relationship that would credit both no matter if one person wrote it. ![]() Sixth grade…in sixth grade this album and the songs on it was huge.Ĭo-credited to bandleaders Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies, but written solely by Hodgson.
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