Take Me Home — Why It Speaks to Me

There’s something about Take Me Home, Country Roads that hits a nerve — not the kind that brings pain, but the kind that carries a deep, aching longing.

It’s not about West Virginia for me.
It’s about home.
Not a place — but a feeling.

“Country roads, take me home / To the place I belong…”

I’ve never really felt like I belonged anywhere — not in my family, not in the world.
But this song evokes something that I think I’ve always carried deep inside:
a vision of a place where I’d feel understood, safe, and gently held.

It’s not about the geography.
It’s about the heart.

There’s a tenderness in Denver’s voice that feels like what I wish I’d grown up with.
Something soft.
Something reliable.
Something that didn’t demand I change who I was to be loved.

“Driving down the road I get a feeling / That I should have been home yesterday…”

That line? That’s the part that stings.
Because I should have felt home somewhere long before now.

And yet, maybe the song doesn’t just speak to loss.
Maybe it points to hope — that home might still be something I can build,
within myself,
with others,
with my son.

Maybe that feeling of being “taken home” is just starting to unfold now.