10. Home

The most amazing song ever! This is my favorite song from her album, with beautiful piano solo that end this song. Oh... I wish that I can play piano just like her! According to Irv Gotti, this song was written about Stephan Jenkins, Carlton's partner at the time of its writing, although he added that "Vanessa's found home in her music, and home can be anything for people: a boyfriend, husband, child, mother ... what home can represent makes it such an enormous record. That record is very special to me. This song is really special to me, too!!

Title: Home

Artist: Vanessa Carlton

Album: Heroes & Thieves

Some people live in a house on the hill
And wish they were some place else
There's nobody there
When the evening is still
Secrets with no one to tell

Some I have known have a ship where they sleep with sounds of rocks on the coast
They sail over oceans five fathoms deep
But can't find what they want the most

Even now when I'm alone
I've always known with you
I am home

Some live in towns
Cardboard shack on concrete
All bluster and bustling life
They search for the color they can never quite see
Cause it's all white on white

Even now when I'm alone
I've always known with you
I am home
[repeat]

For me it's a glance and the smile on your face the touch of your hands,
And an honest embrace
For where I lay it's you I keep,
This changing world I fall asleep
With you all I know is I'm coming home,
Coming home

This song holds a really special meaning. "Home" is not only the building or how it looks. But the real "home" is the place where we can gather together with our beloved ones, they can be our family, our friends, or anything. Thanks, Nessa! I learned the real definition of home from you!