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This is about me coming back home after 6 years living abroad. It reflects my mixed feelings and probably those of so many Iranians who returned home after the Iran-Iraq war. The mixed feelings, in my case, were due to many factors including a guilt conscious of having left behind my country when my fellow countrymen were fighting and being killed in the war, or the sense of abandoning my family in times of hardship and war.

This song is the most personal track for me on this album, but I am sure many other Iranians or other Middle Easterners, including our Iraqi brothers sympathize with this song. I was 17 when I left my home and had nothing in mind until my return but “coming home”. Therefore, the title.

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Verse 1:
Never thought I’d come to this. Is this the place I’ll miss? Am I finding my way back home?
Is it gonna be the same, like the way it used to be? Will anyone call out my name?
Chorus:
What am I heading for when I know there will be nothing more for me to see. I hope to see the flashing lights of a city that will never fight again.

Verse 2:
Nights that I spent waiting on the line. Not knowing if I was evil or divine. Seconds seemed like days, now I’m on my way to cross the line.
Six years of idleness, six years of anguish, six years of patience, but only one wish.
One wish to go back home, one wish to stay at home, one wish to kill, it’s the way I feel.

Chorus:
What am I heading for when I know there’ll be nothing for me to see?
I hope to see the flashing lights of a city that will never fight again.
Gonna open that door. Gonna step on that floor. Gonna play that grand piano.
Am I gonna see it again, or is it gonna stay in the past. All that happiness that I once had in my life, seems to be gone.

What am I heading for, when I don’t even know why I am heading for a land that remains my home. In spite of all its evil trends that I know once will surely end, it’s my home, my home

credits

from Suicide In B Minor, released June 26, 2014
Amirali Nourbakhsh electric and acoustic guitars
Hadi Kiani Keyboards
Herbie Langhans Vocals
Arash Moghaddam Drums
Dara Darai Bass

All songs written by Amirali Nourbakhsh

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Whispers In Crimson Tehran, Iran

The tracks on Whispers in Crimson’s first album, Suicide in B Minor, reflect the political mindset of the band’s founder, Amirali Nourbakhsh.
He was 13 when the Islamic Revolution took place in Iran overthrowing the Shah. As a son of an American-Iranian trained naval officer under the Shah’s regime, he witnessed how the 1979 revolution changed his life overnight. ... more

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