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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