Featured Unknown/Underrated Song of the Rock Era*: Foreigner's "Long, Long Way From Home"

Although it's bad both to the artist and to music lovers when a deserving song doesn't make the Top 10, we at Inside the Rock Era like it because we get to feature it and draw attention.  Since radio stations are almost robotic these days in that they only play songs that made the Top 10, you probably don't get to hear many of the songs we feature in this category.  Again, too bad for radio as it continues to go downhill, but great for this web site!

Foreigner released it as their third single from their debut album, coming off the smashes "Feels Like the First Time" and "Cold As Ice".  How a great song like this from an album that has sold over five million copies in the United States alone can only be #20 seems like fuzzy math.  But that's exactly what this single did, thus making it one of The Top Unknown/Underrated Songs of the Rock Era*:

"Long, Long Way From Home"

Foreigner

Written by Mick Jones, Lou Gramm and Ian McDonald

It was a Monday
A day like any other day
I left a small town
For the Apple in decay

It was my destiny
It's what we needed to do
They were telling me
I'm telling you

I was inside looking outside
The millions of faces
But still I'm alone
Waiting, hours of waiting
Paying a penance
I was longing for home

I'm looking out for the two of us
I hope we'll be here when they're through with us

I was inside looking outside
Oh the millions of faces
But still I'm alone
Waiting, hours of waiting
I could feel the tension
I was longing for home

I'm looking out for the two of us
And I hope we'll be here when they're through with us
I'm coming home

Monday, sad, sad Monday
She's waiting for me
But I'm a long, long way from home

Sad, sad Monday
She's waiting for me
But I'm a long, long way from home

Sad, sad Monday
Oh she's waiting for me
But I'm a long, long way from home