Supertramp Lyrics

    ------ About the song The Logical Song performed by Supertramp

Wonderful song, think it's about idealistic view on life with a appetite to right the wrongs, then a frustrating junction in life where those basic ideals & beliefs are repeatly challengedby outsiders until you feel pressurisedto question or stop listening to yourself your heart & senses and use a type of "logic" that is considered universally acceptable.
humans are spiritual & driven by emotion neither would
considered logical.

    ------ About the song Goodbye Stranger performed by Supertramp

The references to early morning light, the King w/o castle,finding a lost paradise,
the general lyrics about being unfettered and without fixed destination. I believe he is singing in the role of Lucifer, giving his perpective on his existence.

    ------ About the song Goodbye Stranger performed by Supertramp

you think that to sing like a girl is degrading, because you think that being a girl is degrading. secretly, you'd love to know what it's like.. wouldn't you? what it feels like.. for a girl.. Bob?

    ------ About the song Even In The Quietest Moments performed by Supertramp

Supertramp is massively under-rated and this may be my favorite song by them. I could sit and listen to it again and again. Excellent song and well worth the download. I have an original copy of the album on vinyl. :)

    ------ About the song Hide In Your Shell performed by Supertramp

Oh, the irony of this song. It reminds me so much of two people I knew a long time ago. To me, the song is like a back-and-forth dialogue not between two people but between their souls, their identities - revealing what goes on in their subconscious, their thoughts, feelings, and desires. Two people who are insecure in their own way, two people who cannot resolve the differences that have come between them. They could be happy, but in the corner of their minds, their insecurities plague them and keep them awake at night. Both searching for answers, both searching for, in a way, each other. Neither can find peace while they remain trapped by what's haunting them. And keeping themselves strained and far apart from each other isn't helping, either.
Nota bene: the title comes from what the rest of the vocalists are singing in the background in the last stanza: "So whatcha' gonna do?" Come on, the both of you! You're hiding in your shells, both facing insecurities, unhappiness, and uncertainy. So whatcha' gonna do? COME OUT!!!!!

    ------ About the song Take The Long Way Home performed by Supertramp

Here is a quote from Roger from Wikipedia article about the song:
"...Definitely part of the song is about the shallowness of success and getting caught up in a world and success and chasing, being popular, or whatever, is taking 'the long way home'. Because I think 'home' in its deepest sense is inside, is being at peace with oneself...."

It seems clear to me from the whole quote that he is not advocating or praising "the long way home", but rather that it is a mistake.

What he seems to be saying is that our true self is "inside us" all the time, not outside us. This is a very Buddhist POV, though other religions have similar viewpoints.

The analogy of the diamond covered in dung is often used to make the point that we already have what we are seeking, we simply have to remove what it is that is keeping us from being aware of it. What is necessary is to remove the dung.

    ------ About the song Fool's Overture performed by Supertramp

Churchill is clearly a symbolic identity given to the premise of "history repeating itself", something the writer is clearly conscious of and uses Churchill's history to reference his own. In Britain, Churchill for a while was almost Jesuit like in his achievements, yet even Christ died on the cross, a fate experienced by Churchill as his political prowess was weak. He was reminded of this when he was unceremoniously dumped by the nation in the very first post war general election. Whilst a man for his time, "war time", he was not the man to rebuild a nation, he had the courage of his convictions to ensure its survival. During the war politics meant little it was a time to defeat Nazism and Fascism, something Churchill took on with "brilliance" as he knew that this task would call on him to use evil to defeat evil and this he did on many occasions. Churchill can be seen as the prophet and the fool within the context of the song, something we are all capable of within our own circles at differing levels. Churchill never recovered his standing within the UK until his death in 1965 when the nation swept into devastating grief also realised how it to had failed the man. It was not until after his death that his lionhearted achievements were truly recognised and acknowledged by the nation, by then it was all too late for the man.

Just my view of a brilliant song I have not belittled anyone else's view so don't presume you have the right to belittle mine. Thank you for reading. My online handle is Frodo's Dentist

    ------ About the song Breakfast In America performed by Supertramp

I WILL NEVER EVER BE ABLE TO SEE SO MANY ACTS SO CHEAPLY IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.IT WAS PURE MAGIC.OH WHAT A RUSH.SUPERTRAMP AND KANSAS IN THE SAME WEEK.THEN JOURNEY AND SANTANA THE NEXT WEEK.THEN TODD RUNDGREN AND BLACK SABBATH FOLLOWED BY VAN HALENS PREMIER I WASN'T JUST DREAMING IT.DAMN I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL

    ------ About the song Dreamer performed by Supertramp

This, a song bout
man v.s. boy dream,
to me must tout
lyric to mean.

man washed up dream through
tell boy "same to you."

man put boy down shade,
boy b/come famous. made,
song bout xperience said,
lyric in reverse now read.

    ------ About the song Fool's Overture performed by Supertramp

take the song as a whole message, i get something a little different than whats been said. measure attitudes and content from the background and this song is about churchill. he was always on the outs even when he was right, called the fool, and even a prophet, etc, etc. he was the goat of ww1, but also the last lion. people still use his political style today, and like churchill, scoffed at but right! great song!