"I'm Coming Home" is the song by seminal british psychedelic garage rock band The Deviants. It was written by Mick Farren and released on the band's 1968 album titled "Ptooff!".
The song is built around an increasingly menacing, baleful and ominous lyrics that fantasise on the topic of homecoming and rejoining with the loved one. It is an interesting take on a "lovelorn longing / coming back home" cliche that sprawls all over rock music (even "Louie Louie" is about that). In a way it exposes that cliche as being a good blanket to cover hapless glorification of an unhealthy obsessive behaviour in sweet flowery speech figures.
"I'm Coming Home" tells a story of a protagonist proclaiming that he is getting back "home", probably as a pep talk to himself. The description of his path is very meticulous and rich with details - he describes his journey step by step, gradually building tension and increasing the notion of impending threat.
He spells out how exactly he is going to get "home" and what he is going to do "there". The ultimate intent of the protagonist is to rejoin with his "lady", who, judging, from his words is not expecting this visit and probably even not suspecting it is going to happen at all. What he going to do is quite obvious - attempt a forceful but passionate swive, jump and knob to know.
From the musical standpoint, the song is basic four note stomping vamp waltz that ebbs and flows as the story goes, a kind of stretched out and meaner sibling of The Troggs' songs.
"I'm coming home" starts with the persistent tenacious march with a waltzy sweep at the end of the bar. It is plucky and cheerful. Gradually the march devolves into a sluggish chug, the beat intensifies and turns the whole thing into a manic rave-up Yardbirds-style.
The tension reaches to the point of combustion and the song explodes with fuzz-infested burst of two guitar soloing at the same time. They cancel each other out and make a lot of directionless noise.
The double solo transitions into the next section of the song where music calms down and takes a backseat so that Mick Farren could chillingly recite what he is going to do with the object of desire.
Then the song explodes with the sweeping solo that reiterate what was just said. It falls apart into a mindless shredding over a drum avalanche. And then things get back to an opening march, except now it is sloppier and it almost instantly devolves into a haphazard outbreak that falls off the cliff into outer space and dies out.
What makes the song particularly disturbing is that the whole song is a first-person fantasy scenario playing out in the protagonist's head - a disturbing narrative of the sickened mind trying to express itself. That's why a level of detail is so high.
And it goes a distance to prove its point. Mick Farren sings it with such a conviction you just can't help but get repulsed by his performance. He hams it up quite a bit but keeps things at reasonable level - his performance retains the plausibility of the scenario.
Overall, the song is a great example how to spin a familiar narrative into something more sinister and unfortunately relatable.
(As a sidenote, I'm Coming Home and We Will Fall sound really good back-to-back, i had a chance to listen to it that way once when i hit shuffle on my Winamp player.)
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