Songfacts®:

• This song finds Stewart longing for home, missing his family. At this point (1986), he had three children and was in a committed relationship with Kelly Emberg, who gave birth to his fourth child the following year.
  
  "I remember it well, because I was going through a particularly bad spell of homesickness," Stewart wrote in his Storyteller liner notes. "So this one took no coaxing whatsoever."
• Stewart wrote this song with his keyboard player, Kevin Savigar. It's the title track to his 14th album, which was produced by Bob Ezrin, the man who helmed Pink Floyd's The Wall and worked on much of Alice Cooper's '70s output.
• "Every Beat Of My Heart" was the second single from the album, following "Love Touch." It didn't do well in America but was a big hit in Stewart's native UK, climbing to #2.
• Stewart was one of the early stars of MTV, but this video graduated him to the older-skewing VH1, which launched a year earlier. Directed by Leslie Libman, it shows Stewart traveling by trains, planes and automobiles as he years for his homeland.
• There's a blast of bagpipes in this song, signifying Scotland, one of Stewart's favorite places. That's where his father is from, and Rod is a supporter of the Glasgow soccer team Celtic.