Coming Home

Album: Once Again (2006)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about a soldier in a war. In Rolling Stone magazine, Legend explained: "I don't have any personal experience, but I imagined what it would be like to be away from your wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, whatever, and not knowing if you'll make it home and could die at any point. And knowing that America is perpetually at war with somebody, either planning it or debating it."

    At the time, America was involved in wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • Legend wrote and produced this song with will.i.am, one of his main collaborators at the time. They started working together in 2003, when Legend worked on will's Must B 21 album. Will.i.am then worked on the track "She Don't Have to Know" from Legend's 2004 debut album, Get Lifted. "Coming Home" is part of Legend's second album, Once Again.

Comments: 2

  • Celeste from Evansvillewonderful music and singer
  • Nikki from Chicago, IlJohn Legend performed this song at the 2007 Grammy Awards during his performance with John Mayer and Corrine-Bailey Rae.
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