| 1 | ->''"We gotta get out of this place\ |
| 2 | if it's the last thing we ever do"'' |
| 3 | -->-- '''Music/TheAnimals''', "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" |
| 4 | |
| 5 | A song about life on the road. Frequently this will be about a young person running away from home, and seeking a better life somewhere else. ''Anywhere'' else. This often results from SmallTownBoredom, and the belief that life on the road is more romantic. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Contrast HomesicknessHymn, which is about being ''tired'' of wandering and wanting to return home. Related to the SomewhereSong, which is about a ''specific'' place where the grass is believed to be greener, and to the IWantSong. See also DrivingSong, TheRunaway, WalkingTheEarth, and RoadTripPlot. |
| 8 | ---- |
| 9 | !!Examples: |
| 10 | |
| 11 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | [[folder:Titled "Wanderlust"]] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * "Wanderlust" by Music/HeatherAlexander[=/=]Alexander James Adams |
| 16 | * "Wanderlust" by Baroness |
| 17 | * "Wanderlust"[[labelnote:*]]ワンダーラスト, literally read as "Wanderlust"[[/labelnote]] by Music/{{BIGMAMA}} |
| 18 | * "Wanderlust" by Music/{{Bjork}} |
| 19 | * "Wanderlust" by Music/FloggingMolly |
| 20 | * "Wonderlust King" by Music/GogolBordello |
| 21 | * "Wanderlust" by Delays |
| 22 | * "Wanderlust" by Every Time I Die |
| 23 | * "Wanderlust" by [[Music/DireStraits Mark Knopfler]] |
| 24 | * "Wanderlust" by Music/PaulMcCartney |
| 25 | * "Wanderlust" by Music/{{Megadeth}} |
| 26 | * "The Wanderlust" by Music/{{Metric}} with Music/LouReed |
| 27 | * "Wanderlust" by Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} |
| 28 | * "Wanderlust" by Music/AbneyPark |
| 29 | * "Wanderlust" by Music/{{REM}} |
| 30 | * "Wanderlust" by Music/WildBeasts |
| 31 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUWd_SP4thU Wanderlust]]" by Flo and Joan, a comical example |
| 32 | [[/folder]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | '''Other Names''' |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Alternative Rock]] |
| 37 | * "The Taste of Ink" by The Used |
| 38 | * "The World at Large" by Music/ModestMouse |
| 39 | * "Dorothy Dreams of Tornados" by Cursive |
| 40 | * "Naveed" by Music/OurLadyPeace |
| 41 | * Deconstructed in "Exotic Siren Song" by Music/{{Moonshake}}, in which following his wanderlust pushes the narrator over the DespairEventHorizon. "Capital Letters" similarly has [[CountryMouse the narrator]] follow his wanderlust and move to the big city, only to become quickly disillusioned with it. |
| 42 | ** Funnily enough, Moonshake has a song actually titled "Wanderlust" that ''isn't'' one of these. |
| 43 | * Music/PoetsOfTheFall's DrivingSong "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di7NMssrqsE Daze]]" is about the highs and lows of touring, dealing with both the thrill of travel and the exhaustion that comes with it. |
| 44 | -->Rolling down the freeway, master to the speed of light\ |
| 45 | Screaming up in the air, bursting through the night\ |
| 46 | No rest, I've stayed here too long, it's time to move on |
| 47 | * "Boatman" by Mono Inc. feat. [[Music/VNVNation Ronan Harris]]. |
| 48 | * "Book of Days" and "On My Way Home" by Music/{{Enya}}. Inverted in "I May Not Awaken". |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Blues]] |
| 52 | * "Boogie Chillen" by Music/JohnLeeHooker |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[folder:Blues-Rock]] |
| 56 | * "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", Music/TheAnimals |
| 57 | [[/folder]] |
| 58 | |
| 59 | [[folder:Classical]] |
| 60 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5gWlmJqaB4 "Das Wandern"]]'' from Music/FranzSchubert's song cycle ''Music/DieSchöneMüllerin'' (''The Pretty Milleress''). |
| 61 | * Emmanuel Geibel and Justus Wilhelm Lyra's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5phLBjpgpU "Der Mai ist gekommen"]]. This is a very popular genre in Germany. |
| 62 | * Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Vagabond" from ''Songs of Travel,'' (text by Creator/RobertLouisStevenson) |
| 63 | * Giancarlo Menotti's "When the air sings of summer I must wander again," from ''The Old Maid and the Thief'' |
| 64 | * "Slim's Song" from Benjamin Britten's ''Paul Bunyan'' (text by Creator/WHAuden) |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Country]] |
| 68 | * "King of the Road" by Music/RogerMiller. |
| 69 | * "On the Road Again" by Music/WillieNelson. |
| 70 | * "Rambling Man" by Music/HankWilliams. |
| 71 | * "Ramblin' Cowboy" by Carson Robison |
| 72 | * "Heads Carolina, Tails California" by Music/JoDeeMessina. |
| 73 | * "The Way I Feel" by Mary Chapin Carpenter. |
| 74 | * "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)" by Music/LeAnnRimes |
| 75 | * "Reckless" by Music/{{Alabama}}. |
| 76 | * "Nobody's Gonna Rain On Our Parade" by Music/KathyMattea. |
| 77 | * "Wanderin' Star", memorably performed by Lee Marvin. |
| 78 | * "My House" by Music/KaceyMusgraves, about life in an RV. |
| 79 | * "A Little Gasoline" by Terri Clark. |
| 80 | * "I've Been Everywhere" by various artists, most notably Music/JohnnyCash. |
| 81 | * "Starting Over" by Music/ChrisStapleton |
| 82 | * "On the Road" by Lee Roy Parnell |
| 83 | * "Wide Open Spaces" by Music/TheChicks, is this combined with a LeavingTheNestSong. |
| 84 | * "What About Now" by Music/{{Lonestar}} |
| 85 | [[/folder]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[folder:Electropop]] |
| 88 | * "Moving On" by Ryuichi Sakamoto, on the album ''Sweet Revenge',' is a particularly poignant example |
| 89 | * "Dark Drive" by The Rain Within, from the album of the same name. Ditto the title track of ''Atomic Eyes''. |
| 90 | * "Run to the Sun" by Music/{{Erasure}}. |
| 91 | * "Let's Take a Car" by Marsheaux. |
| 92 | * "Angeline" by Groove Coverage. Also a OneWomanSong. |
| 93 | * "Get Away" by Shauna Davis. |
| 94 | * "Around The World" by More. |
| 95 | * "In Motion" and "In Space, No One Can Hear You Cry" by Color Theory. |
| 96 | * "Runaway" by Electric Youth. |
| 97 | * "Purple Sun" and "Runaway" by NINA. |
| 98 | [[/folder]] |
| 99 | |
| 100 | [[folder:Filk]] |
| 101 | * Defied in Kathy Mar's ''Heartwarming.'' The singer[[note]]it isn't clear if it's Kathy herself or an unnamed character[[/note]] spends the entire song declaring her love for the person who finally convinced her to settle down. |
| 102 | [[/folder]] |
| 103 | |
| 104 | [[folder:Folk]] |
| 105 | * Tom Paxton's "Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound" is a song about how wanderlust isn't such a good idea after all: the narrator is lonely and lost constantly traveling. It ends: |
| 106 | -->''"If you see me passing by, and you sit and wonder why,\ |
| 107 | And you wish that you were a rambler too,\ |
| 108 | Nail your shoes to the kitchen floor, lace 'em up and bar the door\ |
| 109 | And thank the stars for the roof that's over you"'' |
| 110 | * "The Greatest Adventure" by Glenn Yarborough. It's the song that plays at the beginning of the 1977 film of ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit''. |
| 111 | * "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman. |
| 112 | -->''You got a fast car,\ |
| 113 | Is it fast enough so we can fly away? We gotta make a decision;\ |
| 114 | Leave tonight, or live and die this way?'' |
| 115 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve2Qj281G0s "Passenger"]] by Music/LisaHannigan is this combined with ListingCities. |
| 116 | * Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l3K5oNZ0_w "The Happy Wanderer"]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QJi7wVENE "Der fröhliche Wanderer"]]) |
| 117 | * "Boomer's Story" (trad) |
| 118 | * "Everybody's Talkin'", originally by Fred Neil but famously covered by Harry Nilsson, The Beautiful South, and many others. The singer feels trapped and alienated by urban life and dreams of escaping. |
| 119 | -->''"I'm goin' where the sun keeps shining\ |
| 120 | Through the pouring rain;\ |
| 121 | Going where the weather suits my clothes..."'' |
| 122 | * Music/PhilOchs' ''Song of My Returning''; half ode to wanderlust, half love song. |
| 123 | * "Been on the Road So Long" by Alex Campbell is about a WorldHalfEmpty, the general theme being that he might be tired of travelling "the road of no return", but nothing he's seen makes him want to stay anywhere either. |
| 124 | * "Never Tire Of The Road" by Andy Irvine is a tribute to Creato/WoodyGuthrie and the life if a traveling musician. |
| 125 | -->''"Never tire of the road,\ |
| 126 | Never tire of the rolling wheel\ |
| 127 | Way out yonder's a calling me, and the dark road leads me onward\ |
| 128 | And the highway that's my code\ |
| 129 | There's a lonesome voice that I heard in my head that said "Never tire of the Road"\'' |
| 130 | * "All Who Wander" by Dougie Maclean. |
| 131 | -->But all who wander are not lost,\ |
| 132 | We just like the wind in our face.\ |
| 133 | Once the raging river's crossed,\ |
| 134 | We will return to, return to this place. |
| 135 | * Music/StanRogers' "Northwest Passage" is about a person driving west across Canada and musing about the first European explorers to trek the same route. |
| 136 | --> How then am I so different from the first men through this way? \ |
| 137 | Like them, I took a settled life, I threw it all away, \ |
| 138 | To seek a northwest passage at the call of many men \ |
| 139 | To find there but the road back home again. |
| 140 | * Music/WoodyGuthrie's "Sally, Don't You Grieve": |
| 141 | -->I am one of those ramblin' men,\ |
| 142 | Ramblin' since I don't know when,\ |
| 143 | Here I come and I'm gone again,\ |
| 144 | And I told her not to grieve after me. |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Folk Metal]] |
| 148 | * "Journey Man" by Music/{{Korpiklaani}}. |
| 149 | * "The Road Goes Ever On" by Wuthering Heights. |
| 150 | [[/folder]] |
| 151 | |
| 152 | [[folder:Folk Rock]] |
| 153 | * "Peace Train" by Cat Stevens. |
| 154 | * "America" by Music/SimonAndGarfunkel. |
| 155 | * "Beggars to God" by Bob Franke. |
| 156 | * "The Road" by Music/FrankTurner. |
| 157 | * "Second Child, Restless Child" by Music/TheOhHellos. The song that immediately follows after, "Wishing Well," then demonstrates [[SubvertedTrope why this trope isn't always a good idea.]] |
| 158 | * "Road Trip" by Music/{{Runrig}}. |
| 159 | * "Carefree Highway" and "Long Thin Dawn" by Music/GordonLightfoot. |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[folder:Gypsy Punk]] |
| 163 | * "Sally" and "Wonderlust King" by Gogol Bordello. |
| 164 | [[/folder]] |
| 165 | |
| 166 | [[folder:Hard Rock]] |
| 167 | * "Born to be Wild" by Music/{{Steppenwolf}}. |
| 168 | * "Fly by Night" By Music/{{Rush|Band}}. |
| 169 | ** And the lesser known "Dreamline". |
| 170 | * "Ramble On", from ''Music/LedZeppelinII'' by Music/LedZeppelin. |
| 171 | * "Stone Free" by Music/JimiHendrix. |
| 172 | --> ''Stone free, to do what I please,\ |
| 173 | Stone free to ride the breeze,\ |
| 174 | Stone free, I can't stay,\ |
| 175 | I've got to, got to, got to get away'' |
| 176 | * Music/ColdChisel's "Bow River" and "Houndog". |
| 177 | * "Bat Out of Hell" by Music/MeatLoaf. It arguably [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs the trope]], given that the protagonist gets so caught up in the act of getting the hell out of Dodge that he ends up wrecking his motorcycle and dying. |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Indie Rock]] |
| 181 | * Music/TheProtomen song "Breaking Out". |
| 182 | * "Seeds" by Music/HeyRosetta |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Metal]] |
| 186 | * "Running Free" and "Wildest Dreams" by Music/IronMaiden. |
| 187 | * "Seawinds" by Music/{{Accept}} (along with Music/{{Therion}}'s {{cover version}} of it): |
| 188 | -->In a cold and dark December\ |
| 189 | As I walked into the rain\ |
| 190 | Stood beside the road all night long\ |
| 191 | In the grey December morning\ |
| 192 | I decided to leave my home\ |
| 193 | Took a train to nowhere, far away\ |
| 194 | Far away |
| 195 | * "Wherever I May Roam" by Music/{{Metallica}}. |
| 196 | * "Wayfarer" by Nightwish; |
| 197 | * Multiple on [[{{Music/CultOfLuna}} Cult of Luna's]] Somewhere Along the Highway album. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Melodic Hardcore]] |
| 201 | * "Anywhere But Here" by Music/RiseAgainst. |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[folder:New Wave]] |
| 205 | * "Roam" by Music/TheB52s. |
| 206 | * "Screaming Skin", by Music/{{Blondie|Band}}. "Following my lust for wander everywhere I've never been, I can't escape from the sound of it--the sound of my screaming skin." |
| 207 | * "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" by Music/SplitEnz. |
| 208 | * "Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat. |
| 209 | * The commonly perceived lyrics of "Like The Wind", or Music/TheMostMysteriousSongOnTheInternet, appear to be either this or a BreakUpSong. |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Pop]] |
| 213 | * The Russian pop song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXMb9bQoM1o Zelenoglazoe taksi]]" ("Green-Eyed Taxi") by Mikhail Boyarsky is about wanting to leave one's home life and go somewhere far away. |
| 214 | * "Daddy's Car" by Music/TheCardigans. |
| 215 | * "Far Away Places", originally recorded by Music/BingCrosby in 1948 and covered by many other artists since. |
| 216 | * Perry Como's "The Gypsy in My Soul". |
| 217 | * "Breaking All the Rules" by She Moves. |
| 218 | * "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" by Lobo. |
| 219 | * "Breakaway" by Music/KellyClarkson. |
| 220 | * "Ticket to the Tropics" and "Spanish Heart" by Gerard Joling. Both also double as {{Breakup Song}}s. |
| 221 | * Music/NeilDiamond's [[Music/BrotherLovesTravelingSalvationShow "Glory Road"]], about hitchhiking. |
| 222 | * Music/JimCroce's "Sun Come Up". |
| 223 | -->As I walk this crooked highway\ |
| 224 | Never knowin' where to go\ |
| 225 | You know the only life I know is bein' on the road |
| 226 | * Music/{{Jihyo}}'s "Room" |
| 227 | --> "I'm going on a trip\ |
| 228 | To the far end of the world\ |
| 229 | Rattling a tightly locked room\ |
| 230 | After checking dozens of times, we're far away"\ |
| 231 | ([[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jihyo/room.html English translation]]) |
| 232 | * Junior Walker's "(I'm a) Road Runner". |
| 233 | -->I'm a road runner, baby\ |
| 234 | Can't stay in one place too long\ |
| 235 | I'm a road runner, baby\ |
| 236 | Mess with me and I'll be gone |
| 237 | * Frankie Laine's "The Cry of the Wild Goose". |
| 238 | -->My heart knows what the wild goose knows\ |
| 239 | I must go where the wild goose goes\ |
| 240 | Wild goose, brother goose, which is best\ |
| 241 | A wandering foot or a heart at rest? |
| 242 | * "Another Town, Another Train" by Music/{{ABBA}} |
| 243 | -->Just another town, another train\ |
| 244 | Nothing lost and nothing gained\ |
| 245 | Guess I'll spend my life in railway stations |
| 246 | * Ed Ames' "Son of a Travelin' Man". |
| 247 | -->From Boston to Charleston\ |
| 248 | Wherever the four winds blow\ |
| 249 | I'm restless, I'm ready\ |
| 250 | There's a rainbow for me to follow\ |
| 251 | Anywhere that it leads me\ |
| 252 | I must go! |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Pop Punk]] |
| 256 | * "Our Hometown" by Music/BowlingForSoup. |
| 257 | [[/folder]] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | [[folder:Progressive Rock]] |
| 260 | * [[Music/ClockworkAngels "Caravan"]] and "[[Music/TwentyOneTwelve A Passage to Bangkok]]" by Music/{{Rush|Band}}. |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:Punk Rock]] |
| 264 | * "Wayfarer" by Hot Water Music. |
| 265 | * "Night Train" by Bouncing Souls. |
| 266 | * The ending of two songs on Music/GreenDay's ''Music/AmericanIdiot'' have this: "Jesus of Suburbia" and "Letterbomb". |
| 267 | ** "Castaway" from ''Warning'' gives off this vibe. |
| 268 | [[/folder]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[folder:R&B]] |
| 271 | * Charlene's "I've Never Been to Me" is a deconstruction which states that all of the singer's travels and adventures left her no time for personal growth or a family. |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | [[folder:Rock]] |
| 275 | * "Don't Stop Believin'", Music/{{Journey|Band}} |
| 276 | -->''"Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world,\ |
| 277 | She took the midnight train goin' anywhere"'' |
| 278 | * "Baba O'Riley", Music/TheWho, from ''Music/WhosNext'' |
| 279 | -->''"Sally, take my hand\ |
| 280 | We'll travel south, 'cross land\ |
| 281 | Put out the fire, and don't look past my shoulder."'' |
| 282 | ** "Goin' Mobile" is another one: |
| 283 | -->''"Out in the woods or in the city\ |
| 284 | It's all the same to me\ |
| 285 | When I'm driving free, the world's my home."'' |
| 286 | * Both "Thunder Road" and "Born to Run" from ''Music/BornToRun'' by Music/BruceSpringsteen. |
| 287 | -->''"We got to get out while we're young \ |
| 288 | Because tramps like us, baby we were born to run"'' |
| 289 | ** More recently, "Hitch Hikin'" and "The Wayfarer" from ''Western Stars.'' |
| 290 | * "She's Leaving Home" by Music/TheBeatles, from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' |
| 291 | ** And possibly "Ticket to Ride". |
| 292 | ** And the latter part of "You Never Give Me Your Money". |
| 293 | ** The first verse of "Get Back": |
| 294 | -->Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner, but he knew it couldn't last,\ |
| 295 | Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass... |
| 296 | * Music/BobDylan: "Highway 61 Revisited", "Like a Rolling Stone" (sort of) (from ''Music/Highway61Revisited''), and "Tangled Up in Blue", from ''Music/BloodOnTheTracks''. |
| 297 | * "Friend of the Devil" by Music/TheGratefulDead. |
| 298 | * "The Wanderer" by Dion, although it's more about skipping town to [[TheCasanova avoid being tied down to a single girl]]. [[DoubleStandard This from the man who brought you]] "[[ReallyGetsAround Runaround Sue".]] |
| 299 | ** WordOfGod says it's a [[TakeThat parody song]] of a chauvinistic two-timer, sung in the third person. The song received a MisaimedFandom nonetheless. |
| 300 | * "The Loadout/Stay" by Jackson Browne. |
| 301 | * "Free Bird" by Music/LynyrdSkynyrd. |
| 302 | * "Friday's Child" by Them (with Van Morrison who later did a solo version). |
| 303 | * "Turn the Page" by Music/BobSeger. |
| 304 | * "Roll Me Away" by Music/BobSeger |
| 305 | * "You Can Sleep While I Drive" by Melissa Etheridge |
| 306 | * "American Ride" and "Vagabond Moon" by Willie Nile. |
| 307 | * The title song of Jon Bon Jovi's solo album ''Destination Anywhere.'' |
| 308 | [[/folder]] |
| 309 | |
| 310 | [[folder:Roots Rock]] |
| 311 | * "Proud Mary" from ''Music/BayouCountry'' by Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival (though it still holds true in the [[CoveredUp Tina Turner cover]]). |
| 312 | [[/folder]] |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[folder:Southern Rock]] |
| 315 | * "Ramblin' Man", Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand, and a different song by the same name, The Zutons. |
| 316 | * "Highway Song" by Blackfoot. |
| 317 | * "Travelin' Man" by Music/LynyrdSkynyrd. |
| 318 | [[/folder]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | [[folder:Swing Revival]] |
| 321 | * "Wolftown Blues" by the Deluxtone Rockets. |
| 322 | -->''Small town blues, can't wait to get away.\ |
| 323 | Leaving this town ain't no mistake.\ |
| 324 | Jump the first rail I got the money to pay. \ |
| 325 | On and on, ride these blues away.'' |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | '''Examples in other Media''' |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 331 | * Quite a few of the songs associated with ''Manga/OnePiece'' have this theme, since the series is all about sailing the seas in search of adventure. |
| 332 | * The opening of the first season of ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'', "Tabi no Tochuu" ("On a Journey") is half wanderlust song, half love ballad. |
| 333 | [[/folder]] |
| 334 | |
| 335 | [[folder:Film]] |
| 336 | * Spoofed with the song "Never Did No Wanderin'" from ''Film/AMightyWind''. |
| 337 | * "Movin' Right Along" from ''Film/TheMuppetMovie''. |
| 338 | * "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Goes_Ever_On_(song) The Road Goes Ever On]]" from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' starts out as a WanderlustSong, but ends as a "[[HomesicknessHymn No Place Like Home]]"-type song. |
| 339 | * ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'': While "Into the Unknown" starts out sounding like a RefusalOfTheCall, it soon transforms into this when Elsa admits that she's not where she's meant to be and hopes to learn more about herself and her magic by following the voice. |
| 340 | * The Russian film ''Pro krasnuju Shapochku'' (about Red Riding Hood) features the "Road Song", stating "If you go a road long enough you can get to Afica" and so on. |
| 341 | * "Wandering Star" from ''Film/PaintYourWagon''. |
| 342 | ** "The First Thing You Know" to a lesser degree, dealing more with Ben's reasons for not wanting to settle down. |
| 343 | [[/folder]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 346 | * Creator/BruceCoville's ''Literature/TheUnicornChronicles'': Book 2, ''The Song of the Wanderer'', features the titular "Song of the Wanderer". |
| 347 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlFM3QrVlQ Here's a video some fans made with their own tune]] |
| 348 | * ''The Road Goes Ever On'', Bilbo Baggins' wanderlust song in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. |
| 349 | [[/folder]] |
| 350 | |
| 351 | [[folder:LiveActionTV]] |
| 352 | * [[http://youtu.be/lgGKSjiw0HQ "Maybe Tomorrow"]], the theme tune to Series/TheLittlestHobo |
| 353 | * ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Poppy's song "This Wandering Day", from the title to having "That not all who wonder or wander are lost" verse as a reference to the line "Not all those who wander are lost" from "The Riddle of Strider" in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. |
| 354 | [[/folder]] |
| 355 | |
| 356 | [[folder:Poetry]] |
| 357 | * Robert Service touches on this in [[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/207/207-h/207-h.htm#2H_4_0019 The Men That Don't Fit in]]. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 361 | * From the TV show ''Series/FraggleRock''... |
| 362 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMuBDC5IQRE "Follow Me"]], sung by explorers Traveling Matt and his nephew Gobo. |
| 363 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XMXLhxNWEs "Only Way Home"]], sung by Gobo and a cave creature called Aretha, whose name is a [[ShoutOut shout-out]] to Music/ArethaFranklin. |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 367 | * "Skid Row" and "Somewhere That's Green" in ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''. |
| 368 | * "Wanderin' Star", from ''Theatre/PaintYourWagon''. |
| 369 | * In the musical ''Theatre/InTheHeights'', Vanessa's IWantSong, "It Won't Be Long Now," also takes this form. |
| 370 | --->"And one day, I'm walkin' to JFK, and I'm gonna fly! |
| 371 | --->It won't be long now, any day." |
| 372 | * Occurs twice in ''Theatre/PassingStrange'': |
| 373 | ** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the Narrator: |
| 374 | --->"[[BreakingTheFourthWall At this point in the play]], we were planning a show tune |
| 375 | --->[[GenreSavvy An upbeat 'gotta leave this town' kind of show tune]] |
| 376 | --->But we don't know how to write those kinds of tunes" |
| 377 | ** During "Passing Phase," which doubles as a RockStarSong, the main character Youth sings about his plans to "live in vans crammed with guitars / I'll sleep on floors and play in bars / I'll dance to my own metronome / Until chaos feels like home." |
| 378 | * "Fortune Favors the Brave" from ''Theatre/{{Aida|JohnRice}}'' features the male lead and his shipmates singing about how much they love exploring. Later, "Enchantment Passing Through" finds the two leads sharing their desires to escape their inescapable lives. |
| 379 | * "Corner Of The Sky" from ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'' functions as one, given that "ramble", "fly" and "run free" are key words in its refrain, and its end-of-the-scene reprises at times when Pippin wants to be somewhere else. |
| 380 | * "Joey, Joey, Joey" from ''Theatre/TheMostHappyFella'': |
| 381 | -->You've been too long in one place\ |
| 382 | And it's time to go, time to go...\ |
| 383 | That's what the wind sings to me\ |
| 384 | When the bunk I've been bunkin' in gets to feelin' too soft and cozy,\ |
| 385 | When the grub they've been cookin' me gets to tastin' too good,\ |
| 386 | When I've had all I want of the ladies in the neighborhood. |
| 387 | * "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" from ''St. Louis Woman''. |
| 388 | * "There's Gotta be Something Better than This" from ''Theatre/SweetCharity''. |
| 389 | * "On My Way" from ''THeatre/{{Violet}}''. |
| 390 | * "Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts" from Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's ''Whistle Down the Wind'' |
| 391 | [[/folder]] |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[folder:WesternAnimation]] |
| 394 | * The first song Anya sings in ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' is "Journey to the Past". |
| 395 | * Belle's IWantSong in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' doubles as this: |
| 396 | -->"I want much more than this provincial life! |
| 397 | -->I want adventure in the great wide somewhere! |
| 398 | -->I want it more than I can tell!" |
| 399 | * "Man's Road" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'', as performed by Music/{{America}}. |
| 400 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' has "How Far I'll Go" (which doubles as an IWantSong for Moana) and "We Know the Way". |
| 401 | * "Into the Unknown" from ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''. |
| 402 | * "When Will My Life Begin?" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. |
| 403 | * "The Wide Open World" from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndThePea''. |
| 404 | * "I'm Moving On" from the film of ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet''. |
| 405 | * "Thomas O'Malley Cat" from ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''. |
| 406 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': |
| 407 | ** Subverted with the title song of the episode [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E40OnTheRun "On the Run"]]: Steven and Amethyst go on the road, but it's basically just a game to Steven (he got inspired by a series of novels about a pair of homeless brothers), while Amethyst's part becomes a somber musing about how she doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere at all. |
| 408 | ** The title song of the episode [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E27Escapism "Escapism"]] is about someone in a terrible living situation they wish they could leave. |
| 409 | ** "Being Human", the EndingTheme of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', is played against a background of Steven driving on the highway, the lyrics implying that to really "be human" [[ButNowIMustGo you may have to move away to somewhere else]]. [[spoiler:In fact, it's the song [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn Steven is listening to on the radio]] when he actually moves out for that exact reason.]] |
| 410 | [[/folder]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | [[folder:Misc.]] |
| 413 | * ''Lonesome Road'' by Gorilla Rodeo! |
| 414 | * ''Lonesome Road'' Frist by Nathaniel Shilkret but has been covered many times over the years. |
| 415 | [[/folder]] |
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