Album: BCCIV (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • Speaking to My Rockworld, frontman Glenn Hughes said he wrote this song, "about my travels and always returning home, always safe... to get back home to a safe place."
  • Hughes told Blues Rock Review how he created the song with guitarist Joe Bonamassa.

    "We're always jamming, Joe and I, and I may have been tuning my bass up and he starts playing [hums riff] and I'm going, 'Don't stop! Carry on. What key is this?' I found out we were in B and I'm, like, 'This is great.' And then I started to sing, 'Oh, when I come around.' I know what's coming. I know when there's going to be a pre-chorus and when the chorus hit I started to play these Beatles kind of chords in a rock version and we just knew this was a song.

    Of course, the Fleetwood Mac part is Joe being Joe, but, as you know, Joe will say to you he's just borrowing from somebody else as I borrow from X, Y or Z. Trust me, we all borrow from each other."

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  • Lee from Las VegasIt's "I don't feel so HOLLOW." Not "high, no."

    Aside from being able to clearly hear the "L's" in "hollow," watch the video and you'll see his tongue pronounce them.
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