Theme
Songs about leaving home
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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She & Him
I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
A quiet reckoning with a place and person the narrator can't return to, where the mistake keeps being falling for the memory instead of the reality
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Chappell Roan
Pink Pony Club
A queer coming-of-age fantasy about leaving small-town Tennessee for a West Hollywood gay bar, and refusing to feel guilty about the life waiting there
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Chappell Roan
Pink Pony Club
A small-town girl trades her mother's approval for a stage in West Hollywood, finding her queer self under the disco lights
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Djo
End of Beginning
A farewell to a younger self left behind in Chicago, set off by the strange ache of returning to a place you've outgrown