GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - I'm your captain/Closer to home REACTION - First time hearing
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GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - I'm your captain/Closer to home REACTION - First time hearing.
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My impression has always been that the crew is committing mutiny. The Captain is "feeling mighty sick" because he has been poisoned. I don't think someone is physically choking him; I think the poison is constricting his air passage, and he's suffocating. Getting closer to home is the Captain dying and ascending to The All.
Wow, that is EXACTLY (well, pretty damned close) to what I had always imagined, and I've been thinking about this song for 50 years. I didn't think about poison though, and thought that, in the mutiny, he was killed, and now, at the end, his spirit is freed and is going back to where he called home ... might be a port, or heaven ... either 1 would work/be appropriate. I like your way too though. It's a very interesting idea ... 1 in which I will ponder a bit 😊 longer about, but it's the lines in the verse (below) that make me feel like it is a REAL physical, not medical threat ...
I can feel the hand of a stranger
And it's tightening 'round my throat
Heaven help me, heaven help me
Take this stranger from my boat
It's the last line that cinches it for me. I also teetered between God and his home because he said, "If you return me to my home port, I will kiss you mother Earth" so, kind of like a ghost haunting a boat or house/castle he seems to be longing to make it back to where he feels home is.
I feel that the part about "feeling mighty sick" might just be a metaphor, not due to poison, but more like, when you know you are (or a loved one is) going to die, you sometimes feel sick to your stomach, often stated as "I feel sick" or "I feel like I wanna throw up". Anyways ... great thinking.
@@StevesFunhouse
I understand the discrepancy in my interpretation with those lines. Here's how I justify my thinking to myself:
The poison has been causing the Captain to feel ill for several days. As the poison reaches its peak, the Captain is lying delusional as his air passages swell and air flow is constricted.
I feel we are led to believe the ship is out at sea, at least several days, if not longer, from any port. Much less the Captain's home port. There's very little chance of the ship being boarded. As Captain, he would know every member of his crew, and have passing knowledge of any passengers, so unless there was a stowaway, or as Harri surmised, the ship was boarded by pirates, there is most likely no "stranger" on board. If there was such, I think the lyrics would have been more precise regarding that.
In my opinion, as he lies delusional and dying, the Captain is seeing his own shade/spirit, which he does not necessarily realize is such. His confusion imagines the hands of his delusion being the reason he can't breathe, until he actually dies. If he wasn't delusional, and he did actually witness his spirit leaving his body, his remaining consciousness melds back with it, and begins his return to "Home," whatever that may actually be.
Anyway, that's my very personal interpretation. Grand Funk thankfully left it very open to everyone to interpret for themselves. If you do think more on it, and come to an interpretation which satisfies you, I would love for you to return and share it with us here.
@@StevesFunhouse Steve....u good for 49! Oh ..50, lol!!
@@IllumeEltanin Oh, I understood where you were coming from, and I agree it WAS left open to interpretation, as Mark said it was sort of a spiritual gift, not a story he made up. I appreciate you elaborating on your original explanation though and, as I said, it is an interesting interpretation that I really like.
I like hearing "other possibilities" ... sort of like discussing, "Why are we here?", "Do you believe in aliens?" or "What if we're all just an atom in the thumbnail of a galactic sized giant?". No one knows for sure, but sometimes, the value is in the discussion as much as the journey ... good for expanding your mind.
Still, I keep getting drawn back to the "I can feel the hand of a stranger, and it's tightening 'round my throat" and his plead tom, "Take this stranger from my boat". Might just be me, but that pulls me in the direction of a "boarder" of some sort (i.e. like you said, a pirate).
However, you've made an impression on me so, I'm gonna hold onto your premise and, if I ever have this conversation again, I might even bring up both for discussion with others. Won't that be a hoot 🦉??? I'm thinkin' so 😊😉🤘🙌👍😎
@@michaelasay8587 Not sure if you were ragging me or being serious, but yeah, I was really young, but my brother, who was older, taught me about music way before my time 😊😉👍😎. He also showed me plenty of other things I shouldn't've been doin', but hey, a family's gonna do what a family's gonna do, right 😬😶???
I always cry when l listen to this song when l was only 10 years old l will never forget this song l m here in london and this song is always in my mind
Same... in anticipation of, and at the moment of the violins...
This song is about a captain of a ship, and the crew poisons him. It's mutiny, and in the lyrics, he speaks about "feeling mighty sick," and on his death bed in his cabin, he dreams of his home. "I'm getting closer to my home." This is a great song, or songs. You can't play one without the other. They are listed as two separate songs, but they're really one song. This is Grand Funk's best work.
Thanks, Harri
I totally agree, It was the first album I heard of GFR when I was about 14 years old and this kind of "double song", was my favorite of Grand Funk Railroad at all and still is. It was IMHO the only ProgRock-like song of that band, featuring Mark Farner.
I was driving my brother home from college and this song came on the radio. I adjusted my speed so the song ended just as I pulled into the driveway. My brother still talks about it to this day.
Mark Farner the singer & guitar, harmonica & keyboard player also wrote 92% of their material. He prayed for this song, asking the creator in 71 to give him a song that'd reach out & touch the hearts of those God felt needed it most. They turned out to be Vietnam Vets who turned to this song in their worst hours. The 25 year anniversary of the Vietnam memorial wall, they sent out flyers to ask what song remains their favorite son's. Mark was asked to come & sing this song, he brought his entire band Mark Farner's American band, with 2 brothers in his band, the drummer who was one of James Brown's last drummers & the new bass player. Farner has always had what he calls Rock & roll soul. Has never seen color, his songs are overwhelmingly about love. He spent a few years doing Christian rock. Grand Funk had a reunion tour & the drummer tricked Mark into #1 believing he was his high school buddy & got him to sign what he was told would protect the band, in reality they took away his right to vote in the Corporation. While his son took a bad fall, they cut his dates from 60 to 80 a year. His son ended up paraplegic & thanks to bands from the 70's to the many who were influenced by them, they held a benefit for Jesse & the raised over a million dollars for fixing Mark's far northern Michigan farm house accessible for Jesse & 2 backup generators. He lost his son a year after I lost mine. At 74 in September he's still singing in the same key as age 20. On TH-cam on Abysmo film's site they've got a few of Farner's new material & current band. His first music video 'Never & Always' Closer to home was given to him by the creator, words in the middle of the night & sitting with his flattop guitar (acoustic) the chords were the first he played, the first time he'd ever voiced them that way.
Gosh thank u soooo much for sharing all that information I’m sharing this as much as I can so beautiful
Now, decades later, I have come to think that the home he was closer to was Heaven, having died from the strangulating stranger.
This was my first rock concert. Charlotte Coliseum circa '71. Bloodrock opened the show. D.O.A. Set me back 3 buckaroos.
Yes, I seen GRAND FUNK in concert when I was 18 years old, at the capital center arena. That was one of best concerts ever. My wife and I we have 4 grown- married sons, and 9 teenage grand kids. We still sit around listening to GRAND FUNK, and many of the classic rock groups of our youth. This is one of our favorites to listen to. Thanks for the great memories. GROOVY, FAR OUT MAN!!!!
I saw them and remember they were the loudest band I ever saw, louder than Led Zeppelin, and this was an outdoor concert!
Damn. I was still fluid in 1971 …
@@NathanVeenstra I remember! We were so glad to see you pull yourself together.
I saw Bloodrock open for Grand Funk in 71 in the Oklahoma City fair grounds. It was another leg of the same tour.
The greatest underrated band that didn’t get the recognition they deserved. Keep up the good work Harri, love your reactions.
These dudes were some badass muthas! Grand Funk set my soul on fire back in '69. I saw them live at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis back in 1970, and I haven't been the same since! Not a radio friendly band, but had a few songs hit the air waves. Grand Funk is chocked full of some soul shattering deep cuts! Mel Schacher throws out some of the dirtiest bass funk I've ever heard! Mark Farner with them vocals and a damn fine guitarist! Don Brewer can play the kit like a master, and a damn fine vocalist to boot. 3 guys making some funky noise through the '70's!
Epic! It's very easy to get lost in the sauce on this one. I really dig the uptempo groove that kicks off the Closer to Home passages. PS. I think that by the time he gets to that part he's already dead and it's his spirit that makes the final journey home.
Fun Fact In 1971 they sold out Shea Stadium selling its 55,000 tickets in 72 hours - faster than the Beatles had in August 1965.
Every second of this song is magic.
From beginning to end it always keeps me in anticipation. And dear Lord that bass and those drums!
on my way back home onboard the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk CVA 63 from Veit Nam this song was played as revillie every morning till we ported back home.
The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer? Oh, Man!
Grand Funk should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!!
Some nice bass grooves from the great Mel Schacher. Underrated IMO.
The best and greatest channel on TH-cam consistently. Thank you, Harri, for your show. Perhaps the captain was hopelessly lost and is getting closer to his forever home.
I saw this group in San Antonio Texas back in 71, Bloodrock was the opening band. I was a junior in high school at this time. My best friend and I had so much fun that night. Partying during that time in my life was insane, no care in the world. Music was on a different level during the late 60's through the 70's.
Oh, I am so excited for this to begin! I love this song!!!
A departure from GFR's usual sound but I love the unique change. I always took this as a mutiny and then the Captain dying as he feels his soul going "home"". Love your channel!🎇
Just so you know, it's 1 song and it's titled
"Closer To Home"
My brother was 7 years older than me and we shared a bedroom from 73-81 . He played Grand Funk it seems like every night.
He taught my so much about Rock and Roll . R.I.P. Monte your love of Grand Funk and Rock and Roll lives on .
GOTTA DO LIVE,Shea stadium
Going ,going ,gone another home run from the great Imadrummin. Grand Funk is one of my favorites. 😉👍🔥🙃
I thinking "Getting closer to my home" is like a hallucination, from being poisoned or strangled, and he is tripping out about his homeland, or possibly heaven...Whilst he fades out of consciousness.
This song was an anti war song back in the day, protesting the Vietnam war! It was the movement back then! Everybody fell in love with this anthem! I miss that music! Loved the seventies!
Thanks for reacting to this song Harri...."mean mistreater" would be a great follow up tune.
Masterpiece 💎
A sad ballad of Mutiny, Theft and Murder. His crew poisoned him, took his ship, and when that didn't finish him he was choked, and eventually tossed overboard to drown - he can hear the waves washing over him as he sinks, yet feels he's getting closer to his home (soul departing upwards).
Grand Funk Railroad is a great American rock band who achieved their peak in popularity during the 1970's. "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" is one of my favorites. But they had a lot of great hits such as "We're An American Band", "The Loco-Motion", "Walk Like A Man", "Shinin' On", "Some Kind Of Wonderful", "Bad Time", "Inside Looking Out" etc.
Classic rock one of the top 40 songs of all time great live band
Love this band!! Rock n Roll Soul, Walk Like a Man are a couple personal favs, Studio versions. Wish I could have saw them live....heard they were great.
Their penultimate song. So much to take in with this one. I use to cruise around my hometown on summer nites, listening to music. When this song came on, I would roll down the windows, take in the honeysuckle infused air and sing along with GFR. Part of the songbook of my life, for sure. Simply an amazing song. And that ending chorus with the strings is spellbinding. We are always getting closer to our homes. ❤
Grand Funk did a concert with the Bosnian Philharmonic Orchestra this song is out if this world
I really have no idea, but I've always thought that his "home" was the final home we will all go to someday (in other words, the stranger choked him).
On your way to 100,000, my friend.You deserve it.Grand Funk was a horror story…they sold out Shea Stadium faster than the Beatles and were kicked off by Led Zeppelin as their opening act after two days of supposedly kicking their ass. Then their manager stole their money in a scheme.Then they kicked Mark Farner out and they tour separately to this day.No Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for them,but let us put some in that are not deserving as them.Me being sarcastic….
Footstomping Music. Total banger!
Bet the gals love your accent, Harri. It's beautiful.👍
One of the great intros in rock history and the haunting ending with the strings echoing "I'm getting closer to my home." I used to drive around my town listening to this song and letting it take me to realms I had never been to...
The Vietnam vets liked to play this song, it was in that Era, bless the vets, n gud music
A very Awesome Musical Masterpiece by Grand Funk Railroad.
Love the drummer-. Another softer more haunting is Mean Mistreater
Iconic song--another feather in your cap, Imadrummin! You, as well, Guvnor!
Love GFR as teens we would sing along with this in the car as high as we could sing- Love this song❣
This is one of my all time favorite late night listening songs. Great stuff man.
I saw them in 81
They were great
Although they were no longer long haired hippies I still remember the corduroy jackets with the leather elbow pads😂
I loved these guy I remember one of their albums was silver and had womens panties on the outside like real ones I thought it was the coolest..I was really really little at the time i used to hang with my older Brother and listen to music with him and his friends I was the baby he was the oldest in the family he was the only boy out of 7.. I thank him for my love of music..RIP my bro..❤
The Bass and the drums totally make this a killer song...
My Soul misses Home when I hear this song. 🥲
Awesome song from my neighborhood. 💕
This is one of the great endings to a song in modern music, so haunting and ethereal.
Harri, please also react to Mean Mistreater from Grand Funk. It was an emotional song back in the day for a lot of Vets.
I seen my hometown boys from flint michigan in 1972 at cobo arena in detroit at their homecoming concert coming off of the phoenix album tour..most electrifying concert i ever been too...I always remembered a shirtless Farner with his green crushed velvet tight pants strutting all over the stage
I was there too! Same year as Pink Floyd? Saw them again at CMU in 73 I think.
Michigan was a good place to be back then.
Oh......Has anyone mentioned the ' Grand Trunk Railroad' in Michigan?
Great song by them!
came home from Nam in 69 and this song came out after I was home for a year and has never failed to send me back there. I don't know why there is no correlation it just does that to me
This is their classic tune that all their fans looked forward to listening to either in consent or on the radio air waves!
Ahhhhh grand funk railroad, memories good times.
I had thought these lyrics were metaphoric when the song came out. I loved the music, the lyrics were secondary
was it someone trying to kill him or hallucinations from sickness? I could never make up my mind about it. love the reaction smiles and love
Takes me back to being seventeen when this first came out. Love and Peace.
Thank you. I've been looking for someone to react to this! 😎
omg
metaphors, they're metaphors
he's sick and dying
The stranger on his boat is death calling and he knows it
"to take my ship (life) from me...I can't live without it"
"I'm getting closer to my home"... he's dying, finally accepting his fate, the music transitions to uplifting and spiritual ending
this is the very best of grand funk
So many memories of my favorite wife.
This was their first hit song
Mutiny song on the surface at least with lots of music and other going on for me. Trippy side to it. Heard it first time in the 70s before High School with a weed buzz and still love it. I remember thinking of this song in College when we started reading Heart of Darkness.
I think lyrics were designed to be literal in interpretation but I had always interpreted it metaphorically.
The ship is his life, his sense of self, and his dreams for the future, the stranger taking it away and strangling him, is his shadow self or ego. His dreams for the future are being strangled and suffocated out of existence by the toxic version of himself that was created as a result of him trying to survive a harsh journey through life. The need for survival killed his soul and replaced it with ego.
Now he's dying and looking back on life and finding himself finally drifting into the peace that comes with death.
Or he's finally learning how to let go of that version of himself that he created and beginning to experience ego death after his ego suffocated and killled his soul.
That's how I've always seen it as well..
Me, too!!
This was one of the standard anthems of my high school years.
It was a favorite song to soldiers in Vietnam. You’re not to far of when you said losing the mind. But closer to home was close to home to the soldiers of Nam!
I think the word you were working on was mutiny. And he perhaps got put on a small boat and abandoned and was hallucinating; or maybe he's slowly dying! Yes, very different. Besides the drums and the impeccable guitar work by Mark Farner, this really showcases Mel Schacker's "lead bass", very melodic on its own, a countermelody if you will. And the drums, Don Brewer, about halfway through the second part. . . . 64th notes? Subtle with the orchestra, yet still intense! The whole song makes you feel the up an down of the ship riding on the waves.
My impression of the "closer to home" part is that he is dying and knows it and is totally at peace with it.
I've never heard Grand Funk Railroad before although I've heard of them. As far as I know, they never received much airplay in the UK. I always thought that they would be a much heavier band than this. It's not a bad song to listen to, if I heard it I'd certainly look up who it was but at the moment they aren't on my top list. Strangely enough I like the second part better than the first. Anyway, I'll give it a like.
For heavier Grand Funk try "Inside Looking Out", "Mean Mistreater", "Black Licorice".
According to the singer (Mark Farner) who wrote the song, he prayed to God about being able to give a gift to God. He fell asleep had a dream woke up and immediately laid down the tracks and lyrics from his dream. The song he said, is about Jesus Christ
The outro always reminded me of the constancy of the tides; ebb and flow but never ceasing.
An American band, GFR
thanks for checking them out.
I say don Brewer interviewed by a local news on Tampa about 1974 he said they were 2songs but the money men said both to short to record so they combined them to record them
Harris....u don't know this song? My fav!🔥
You pretty much nailed the meaning of the song. The captain long at sea was imagining he wasn't going to make it. In fact when Mark Farner wrote the song he initially intended to write more versus but the orchestra conductor said repeating the Haunting chorus 'I'm getting closer to my home' was all the song needed. Turns out he was right.
Home is Heaven...
The whole song is one big metaphor.
Don’t expect just enjoy the feeling of envelopment as he is dying and getting closer to his final destination!
This was the era where you could get two, maybe three songs crafted into one. Another example is "No Sugar Tonite/New Mother Nature". Or how about Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Paul McCartney.
Forgot to mention I love your channel & can tell you're a great person, who I believe is Muck like Mark & myself, we don't see color. I try to refrain from judging people period. Course there are ***holes everywhere where they won't let you not react, though I rarely if ever give them the satisfaction of a reaction in person. Not out of fear, other than if they made the mistake of punching me in the head, if they piss me off all bets are off. I've had the fastest flush mount ceiling fans, twice clock me right in the temple. I wanted to yank them off the ceiling, but living in the Phoenix Valley, I need them. 122 I don't care how dry the heat was it's freezing hot. When you open your door in July it's much like preheating your oven to 350 and that rush of hot air that comes out feels the same, except here it continues well past the sun going down. Especially since they started covering the streets in asphalt. It retains heat till past midnight. We've had periods of over 60 days where it's not gone below 100 degrees at night. But it's been home since 1979. The chance to be with both service families, both with 4 girls & mine with me as the oldest. 2 of our sisters were best friends before we met, I was friends with her sister for over a year & had no idea they were sisters. Our parents first met during the school play 'West side story' where I played the role of Tony singing Maria, Could be, & Tonight as well as several duets with the gal who played Maria. I was hired by a pro band first to replace their female lead singer, who's husband was being sent back Stateside. I also was hired to share lead & rhythm guitar with the only Spanish guy in the band. I stayed a year past graduating, since my eventual wife of 35 years, before alcoholism totally changed who & what she stood for. But only 18 months apart, but with her being born in January, she was 2 years behind me me. She left for Michigan after her Dad retired. He could never tell his wife or daughter's what he did at the American Embassies in Iran twice, Spain twice & Thailand. Since he was debriefed at the Pentagon, that's all I needed to know. But since she had a year to go before graduating, I gave her my prized 12 string acoustic, & told her I'd be there before she graduated & if she felt the same I'd marry her in a heartbeat. Which I'd do again, since I wouldn't have had both my son's. Though I bel or at my oldest at 36 & they rushed to judgement cuz he had opiates in his system. If she'd have rolled him over & looked at his rt knee & leg. She'd have seen he'd lost his entire patella & half the thigh & shin from MRSA & MSSA. Ending up preventing him from being able to continue his career that he loved, 2 company's allowed him to take 2 Percocets 6 hours before work. He worked 2 weeks shit of a year at both, before the company that insured the business said fire him or we won't insure the business. Their ignorance or what the brain does. If you still have pain your brain's pain center controls it. If you try ake mo the e than the pain you have, the pleasure center takes over. That's what triggers a complete release of all your endorphins & Dopamine, are drained when you used Heroine or Crystal Meth. Hence the term 'Chasing the dragon' Since they'll never equal that first high, unless they stayed clean for year. The few that have, have ended up dead, including Janis Joplin who'd been clean for a year. To prove to herself, since she was going to meet the man who'd told her if she ever got clean, he'd marry her in a heartbeat. Unfortunately she used the same dose she used to & being clean for that year. So she killed herself almost instantly, since she was alone. Long way to go to explain that with 2 golf ball sized lumps where his kneecap used to be, all 3 bones in his leg crunched everything together. Causing intense pain, he was on 300 mgs of sustained morphine & trust me, I know the pain he still was in. Having a bad neck, lower back, Fibromyalgia, a year of 6 injections of Interferon a week, Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis in my late 30's. But already passing 3 kidney stones, I can't take calcium supplements. The best I can do is take magnesium, so my body absorbs all the dietary calcium, instead of sending much of it as waste to the kidneys. I've had 2 huge ones on layaway since 2001, & considering their size I hope & pray they stay high up in my left kidney, where all the stones have been. Plus a botched surgery by the general surgeon trying to close a 240 square mm area, using 5 figure 8's 1 in my neck & 2 in my rt shoulder & 2 in my upper rt back. The hardest thing of all was seeing my son get everything I had, except cancer, though MRSA & MSSA were just as bad. But I wouldn't take 60 years with a different son. My youngest is just as close & a great young man & the best son s father could ever ask for. I'm 1/8 Black American, & American Indian though I can't claim to know what it's like to deal with evil closed minded tiny pricked Jack***es. None more than Trump or the entire GOP targeting certain voting groups, I certainly don't have to say whom. But growing up on Air Force Bases we were all equal & especially Spain, we were all Americans, being in a foreign country. Which in part of s why I had the success running my 1st Radio Shack at 19 on Detroit's infamous 8 Mile road Eminem's neighborhood. Once I caught the racist salesman treating an elderly black man. I waited a few minutes & said my key didn't work right & let me see his key so I know if it's the lock or door. Soon as I had his be key, I told him grab your lunch & anything that's your's & take it with you, your fired. You I do that, I just did! As expected my boss called about 45 minutes later, I explained why & he said you did what you had to. Aside from the fact he pissed me off. I didn't care that I wouldn't get a day off till I trained 1 or 2 employees. The 2 best by a long shot were Sr's in highschool. The only 2 that dressed appropriately & could speak intelligently. I knew I could train anyone who wanted to learn. As Americans if we could work together we'd be living in as close as possible to heaven on earth, but the wicked in power, like the military industrial complex & the Federal reserve which isn't American. They control our money, Britain the Dutch nations, Australia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Phillipines & any place that was a colony of any on the list, we all pay them interest on every dollar printed. Clinton had us within 2 years of being debt free. The biggest factor behind 9/11 a terabyte of FOIA data lays it all out in black & white a terabyte of data is huge! Need channels like yours to escape knowing all the BS going on add in the amount of multi million dollar underground Condo/bunkers built under granite & the huge stockpile of food, water, gas, generators, throughout the US plus t her Georgia guide stones agenda etched into huge stones, 1 being a world population of 500,000 people, world wide! Music is a great escape from what pure evil has in mind, far from just American. Millionaire's need not apply, you don't come close to we hat these wicked beings have in mind. Heavibt a belief system t heat there's got to be a better place than here, where everything a value to them is money & power. We can only fight it with love & understanding. Keep up your work Harribest!
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Great job H. Please hit Atlantis by Donavan next...
Three thoughts on this: 1) It came out during Pueblo boarding by North Korea (give me back my ship). 2) Vietnam being taken by the draft, and eventually finding your way home. 3) Mutiny and overthrowing the captain who dies to ascend to Heaven (getting closer to home). In the end it's what it means to you in your life's voyage.
That's a good interpretation, Harri.
The sea is usually used as a universal metaphor for life.
The ship is the individual's journey through life.
Since he's the captain he can direct his journey which ever way he chooses.
His sickness is his travails and troubles on his journey.
The hands of the stranger is the evil one trying to tempt him away from his calling.
He calls out to God for strength and direction and gets it and is getting Closer To Home.
Listen to Gerry Rafferty's The Ark for a similar scenario.
Love the orchestra in the background. The violins wow. I wish the orchestra was more pronounced or at least a bit more.
The ending is the stuff dreams are made of.
Yes, that's right. He gets thrown overboard by the crew who are in mutiny, or by pirates. He drowns at the end, I think, getting closer to Heaven, hence the beautiful strings. IMHO.
So, I was trying to think of what the song meant if we don't take it literally. And, my first thought was that maybe it had to do with addiction (a bad habit eventually "strangling" you). And, I was reinforced in that by seeing it as one of the first possible interpretations given on Wikipedia.
Probably Mutiny on the Ship and closer to my home means Heaven as he was getting Hung, chocked, or walking the Plank.
Definitely about a mutiny, but I'd also considered pirates. I believe a mutiny bc that's what happens when a captain gets sick, usually mentally, the crew will try to take over the ship or abandon it, usually to the major disagreement and distress of the captain. I never knew if "closer to home" meant dying, but that's what my theory was.
I always thought it was interesting that one song.T.N.U.C never caused a stir about its name..
Interesting song about Murder 💀 and the after Life 👼😇
Enjoy your adventures in music... ✌💙
I loved Grand Funk as a three piece band and saw them twice in Frankfurt in the early 70s. When they added the keyboard player I lost interest. Mark, Don and Mel were all I needed.
This song is a tribute to an American Soldier who is crying out as he is dying in the field.
Vietnam war...
I think it’s a captain talking about how his crew mutinied and he wants his ship back
Maybe one person(some) is taking the song literally, however, if one takes the song more figuratively, the singer(Farner) could be singing about one's life or livelihood. Great Song !
Check out Queen Bee from these guys, it’s a deeper cut off of the Heavy Metal movie soundtrack, great song.👍🔥🤘🏻🎧