When the theme of 2011's Greenbelt festival was announced as "Dreams of home" I remember thinking it was a great idea, a great thought. Home is a hugely evocative idea - the sense of belonging, the feeling of safety, and acceptance. At least that's what it should be about.

This is one of those songs where you can take the lyrics a number of different ways - I like songs like that, so I don't want to expand too much on what I was thinking when I wrote it.

I've since had people who work with homeless people tell me how it evokes thoughts and feelings around that issue. For others it may be about "heaven", whatever that may mean.

For me at least, while there is a sense in which I feel at home in a lot of places, "home" in its purest sense is something that I feel I'm still working towards - I'm caught in between times.

I made a little video to accompany the song:

 

It was lovely to play this song at the festival that inspired it, this year.

 

Musically, I really love the percussion elements on this song - Terl did such a great job, layering up shakers, toforans, other things for us to use a loops. James Middleton brings a great backing vocal too.

The album "While we sleep tonight" is available to purchase here and you can catch up on all the "song by song" posts here.