“Home” by Staind

"Home" was the third single Staind pulled from Dysfunction, their 1999 album on Elektra, and it finds Aaron Lewis at his most bruised. He wrote the words about the grind of the road: no glamour, just hotel rooms and the miles between him and his wife, Vanessa. Underneath it all runs his worst fear, that one day he'll get back and she won't be there.

The band plays it as a slow burn that keeps threatening to boil over, Mike Mushok's guitar grinding against Johnny April's bass and Jon Wysocki's drums while Lewis climbs from a murmur to a roar. Terry Date produced it with the band and mixed it, Fred Durst sat in as co-producer, and all four members share the songwriting credit.

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