No sound like home

By Hazel Sheffield

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL Homeward Bound
A commemorative plaque marks the spot at Widnes station where, in 1965, Paul Simon is said to have written this love song to his girlfriend, Kathy Chitty, who was in London. In the quiet verses, Simon muses on the magazines and cigarettes that fill lonely hours on tour, but in the chorus he races home with a steam-train chug.

ARCADE FIRE We Used To Wait
A piano ostinato runs mercilessly through this single from Arcade Fire’s third album, "The Suburbs". The album was Win Butler’s letter from his childhood home in the suburbs of Houston, Texas. In this song he describes waiting for a real letter, and makes it a crescendo of impatience for a portal to the world outside.