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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Enough To Be On Your Way (page 1/1) ------ performed by James Taylor Backstory adds a dimension | Reviewer: BrianW | 4/27/09 There aren't too many songs that can help you deal with a funeral. I've always found this one interesting for capturing the contrast between a beautiful day and this terribly sad occasion. The best line may be the last, "I walked out on the Mesa/ And I stumbled on this song" ...going out to reflect on it all. Like "Fire and Rain," it helps to know the autobiographical details which are there in this, like many JT songs. You can straighten out some of the guesses you've made and fill in the rest of the blanks. On the edge of the unknown | Reviewer: eileen | 3/3/06 A song honest and unsentimental in its world view ("spends the day's last rays upon this fucked up family"); open in its spirituality ("now she's wild with expectation on the edge of the unknown") and at peace with what life's journey entails and, indeed, requires of us (the entire chorus, especially its entreaty to build your home behind your eyes, carry it in your heart, safe among your own). It is, indeed, enough to be on your way. Taylor is a poet and a strong lyricist, with a playfulness in other songs that here is transformed to a slightly world weary acceptance of loss. The use of the strings in the intro gives this elegy a warmth and affection that one presumes is simply part of how this man lives, and I sometimes feel like we grew up in the same place. . .the home we built behind our eyes. It's JT -- whatever else is there? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/19/05 It is what it is... spiritual... play it with a candle lit, in the dark, but only if you're over 50... you'll find a little bit of yourself.... Add Your New Review About The Song