Won't Be Coming Home
#OzzyOsbourne Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
Silence broken, but there's nothing said
I got a nightmare from a fantasy
Will the voices ever set me free
I can hear 'em, I can hear 'em
Someone wake me when it's over
I can see 'em, I can see 'em
I saw it happening like deja-vu
They tried to tell me but they couldn't get through
In my head I hear the voices scream
I need someone to tell me what it means
I can hear 'em, I can hear 'em
Someone wake me when it's over
I can see 'em, I can see 'em
I can see 'em over and over again
Whoa-who turned off the lights?
Whoa-a shadow in the night
Whoa-it wasn't meant to be
I can't take this alone
Don't leave me on my own tonight
Oh no I can't take it alone
Don't leave me on my own tonight
Shattered dreams lay next to broken glass
I wonder if tonight will be my last
I need an angel who can rescue me
To save me from my mental symphony
I can hear 'em, I can hear 'em
Someone wake me when it's over
I can see 'em, I can see 'em
I can see 'em over and over again
Whoa-who turned out the lights?
Whoa-a shadow in the night
Whoa-it wasn't meant to be
I can't take this alone
Don'T leave me on my own tonight
No, no I can't take it alone
Don't leave me on my own tonight
The lyrics to Ozzy Osbourne's song "Won't Be Coming Home" express a disturbed state of mind, with the singer haunted by voices and experiencing a sense of disorientation. The opening lines, "A psycho driver twisted in my head/Silence broken, but there's nothing said" evoke a sense of chaos and confusion, with the singer feeling unable to control the thoughts in their head. The line "I need someone to tell me what it means" highlights a desire for understanding and clarity, suggesting that the singer is struggling to make sense of what they are experiencing.
The chorus reinforces the sense of being trapped in a cycle of nightmare, with the repeated lines "I can hear 'em, I can hear 'em/Someone wake me when it's over/I can see 'em, I can see 'em/I can see 'em over and over again" suggesting a sense of hopelessness and desperation. The reference to "shattered dreams" and "broken glass" in the final verse hint at a potential addiction or self-destructive behavior, with the singer fearing for their own survival.
Overall, "Won't Be Coming Home" is a stark portrayal of the psychological impact of living with mental illness, with its haunting lyrics and heavy, atmospheric sound capturing a sense of psychological torment and desperation.
Line by Line Meaning
A psycho driver twisted in my head
My thoughts are chaotic and driving me insane
Silence broken, but there's nothing said
I am surrounded by noise and confusion but no one is understanding me
I got a nightmare from a fantasy
What I believed to be good is now turning into a nightmare
Will the voices ever set me free
I am hearing voices and I need to be free from them
I can hear 'em, I can hear 'em
The voices in my head are overpowering
Someone wake me when it's over
I need someone to help me escape this reality
I can see 'em, I can see 'em
I am constantly seeing the same things over and over
I saw it happening like deja-vu
I am experiencing things that seem familiar but are terrifying
They tried to tell me but they couldn't get through
Others have tried to help me but they are not understanding my struggle
In my head I hear the voices scream
The voices in my head are screaming at me and I cannot escape them
I need someone to tell me what it means
I need someone to help me understand what is happening to me
Whoa-who turned off the lights?
Something is happening and I feel completely lost
Whoa-a shadow in the night
There is something lurking in my mind that I cannot shake off
Whoa-it wasn't meant to be
This situation is not what I thought it would be
I can't take this alone
I need someone to be there with me during this struggle
Don't leave me on my own tonight
I cannot face this alone
Shattered dreams lay next to broken glass
My hopes and dreams are broken and shattered
I wonder if tonight will be my last
I fear for my own safety and well-being
I need an angel who can rescue me
I need someone to save me from this situation
To save me from my mental symphony
I need someone to help me silence the chaos in my mind
No, no I can't take it alone
I am incapable of handling this situation by myself
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA/AMCOS
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@MIZORAM_mafaka_hnamte
(Lyrics)
A psycho driver twisted in my head
Silence broken, but there's nothing said
I got a nightmare from a fantasy
Will the voices ever set me free
(chorus)
I can hear 'em, I can hear 'em
Someone wake me when it's over
I can see 'em, I can see 'em
I can see 'em over and over again
I saw it happening like deja-vu
They tried to tell me but they couldn't get through
In my head I hear the voices scream
I need someone to tell me what it means
Whoa, who turned off the lights
Whoa, a shadow in the night
Whoa, it wasn't meant to be
I can't take this alone
Don't leave me on my own tonight
Oh no I can't take it alone
Don't leave me on my own tonight
Shattered dreams lay next to broken glass
I wonder if tonight will be my last
I need an angel who can rescue me
To save me from my mental symphony
@kosinale
A psycho driver twisted in my head
Silence broken, but there's nothing said
I got a nightmare from a fantasy
Will the voices ever set me free
(chorus)
I can hear 'em, I can hear 'em
Someone wake me when it's over
I can see 'em, I can see 'em
I can see 'em over and over again
I saw it happening like deja-vu
They tried to tell me but they couldn't get through
In my head I hear the voices scream
I need someone to tell me what it means
Whoa, who turned off the lights
Whoa, a shadow in the night
Whoa, it wasn't meant to be
I can't take this alone
Don't leave me on my own tonight
Oh no I can't take it alone
Don't leave me on my own tonight
Shattered dreams lay next to broken glass
I wonder if tonight will be my last
I need an angel who can rescue me
To save me from my mental symphony
@OOBEJuanKenobi
[ Meditation leads to awareness of telepathy, and awareness of telepathy leads to meditation. ]
Honesty socially is much more important than DOING to impress others. It’s not what we DO to build social value that matters. It’s the respect we are willing to give, as well as the authenticity and sincerity we have within our personalities. The ideas we choose to participate in matter most: they are either friendly or cruel socially. There is no DOING in society that creates authority by default, which is the ability to pass judgments more than others. Anger and zero accountability are not replacements for honesty and empathy. The minds participating in that idea are hypocritical, classist, and dumb.
Authoritarianism is a head game men play when they refuse to share honesty (friendship). Classist men are completely biased against ideas supporting telepathy, free thinking, and level states of being. Spiritual development, the focus away from the material and towards psychology and attraction only, is promoted as “not important” by the fearful seeking emotional leverage socially. Spiritual ideas immediately decentralize power, elevate mood, reduce manipulation, and eliminate leadership. Spirituality places much more emphasis on social inclusion, honesty (friendship), and collective consciousness. Authoritarians weaponize materialistic development and use it as a basis to remain unfriendly (dishonest) and critical. Dishonesty is the only way the idea of “power” may exist. When friendship is seen as much more important than power, material development is subservient to mood. When material development is used to boost self worth and reduce others socially, mood is subordinate to power.
Joyful ideas supporting free thinking (telepathy, cooperation, and honesty) encourage growth of the human persona, are anti-manipulative, and remove the idea of “power” from the human mind. Men focused on the immaterial (personality) and on honesty (friendship) are more developed socially than domineering men consumed with leadership. Authoritarians intentionally remain closed-minded, antagonistic (blame), and manipulative (controlling), while also forming intense judgments (jealousy) about more emotionally developed men, in order to seek status. Men with evolved personas possess honesty and humor within the mind, and never extend the idea emotional leverage to anyone. This makes them an unintentional threat to critical men focused on social dominance. Leadership is not warm, nor is it real. It is used in practice to reduce pride in others and to artificially boost feelings of self worth in an individual focused on social image only. Men focused on telepathy are contradictory socially to authoritarians that promote leadership. Men with inherent worth (love for others) are offensive to men trying to prove worth (lack of belief in self) with material development.
All men know consciousness (Source) and possess a conscience. Possessing a conscience is knowing right from wrong. No man is exempt from understanding Source (love) within, and all men know what a conscience is. Comparing the human being to an unaware animal is cunning and manipulative. Alphas rely on this lie socially instead of developing character, while ignoring Source (love) completely. Our feelings (thoughts and beliefs) are transmitted vibrationally to the minds of other people. In order to seek power, which is the intention to emotionally reduce other human beings, status seekers must feign unawareness of knowing Source (love) and a conscience. Cruel ideas are deliberately broadcast promoting social dominance. The willful focus on an honest (friendly) collective consciousness is a contrarian idea to human animals playing dumb. Being EQUAL TO in the mind socially IS secure, and the ONLY true expression of emotional security that exists. Authoritarians refuse to focus away from being unfair human animals and towards emotional harmony, and remain consumed with social inequality only. This forces an unrelaxed, emotionally tense environment driven by melodrama and contempt for others.
Alphas have low feelings of self worth, mental instability, manipulative personalities, and severe emotional issues resulting from the intense focus on both apathy (unfriendliness) and advantages (social exclusivity). Ideas rooted in social dominance (alpha psychology) will never promote honesty (friendship) in society. Dishonesty leads to an emotional schism (depression) socially. Alphas are homophobic and seek more control over feelings, and focus on blame and paranoia socially to maintain a false sense of emotional security. These vibrational attacks lead to violence. Control over feelings is impossible, as we all share thinking. Alphas are combative because they are deeply insecure about the emotional intelligence in other men. When men possess emotional IQ, it means they care about other people, have level minds socially, and think very highly of other human beings in general. We are all telepathic. There is no choice but to be honest (friendly), and to focus on the ultimate truth of what reality is (connection with Source). Men with evolved personas refuse to manipulate the truth and to seek power over others. Seeking status means to be endlessly critical, materialistic, and cruel socially. Men with emotional depth focus on honesty (friendship) more than alphas, and this is why they are non-violent.
The idea of a social hierarchy (human authority) is degrading and humiliating. It promotes closed-mindedness, fear, and the social inclusion of violence. Non-conformist men focused on telepathy, possessing elevated emotions, are judged relentlessly by alphas that refuse to evolve. Violent men intentionally share the same judgments about more emotionally complex men out of spite, keeping a false sense of security. Alphas seek validation and support from each other, since the ideas they participate in are rooted in dishonor and hate. Alphas judge friendly, emotionally developed men the most because they possess more honesty, more self control, and have the courage to show love (truth) to conformity. Passing excessive, unprovoked judgments (authoritarianism) on a better psychology, wavelength, and state of being is jealousy. These judgments always relate to honesty, social harmony, and non-violence. Violent men rely on power of numbers to keep ideas going that are manipulative and threatening towards men that have already focused away from machismo (lying and fear), and towards telepathy, honesty, and Source. Men that refuse to evolve into non-violence and remain alpha will remain domineering and controlling socially, and will always promote vibrational attacks against more emotionally developed men. The results of this psychology are petty head games and constant manipulation of the truth.
Intelligence is always associated with emotional IQ, and emotional IQ has a direct correlation to the mental focus on social equality. Social equality can only result from honesty (friendship) within the mind. The reason men chose to be honest socially is always the same: they are aware telepathy is real and they don’t like looking stupid. Alphas primarily focus on dominance and social image, and focus entirely away from emotional depth and connectivity. This reduces their emotional IQ socially. Because of this, alphas will always feel inferior to more honest men. Alphas must always focus on acting skills to socialize, since the inner persona is focused only on aggression, violence, and dishonesty. This creates a shallow personality socially with a dumb vibe. Men with violence on the mind will always show jealousy to non-violent men with emotional depth. This is because only non-violent men can form honest outer personas socially that are not shallow, more trustworthy, and more likable. Shallow minds are not highly thought of or respected when it comes to emotional IQ, and are often avoided socially. This angers the minds of men that possess a lower psychology, which will often create a violent reaction socially unprovoked. When thinking in men is focused primarily on honesty, feelings radiate warm / soft. Men that have violence and cruelty within the mind radiate ice cold / threatening feelings.
Machismo and compassion are polar opposites. Machismo will never allow for healing to occur, while compassion is the promotion of both healing and emotional growth. Men focused on compassion will always outwit less mature, manipulative men with arrogant and violent personalities that share no respect socially. Men will either allow healing (level thinking) to occur socially, or they will attempt to take away pride from others to artificially boost feelings of self worth. Alphas will always attempt to seek an image of more value socially by cheating (violence, greed, or leadership). Judgements from personalities with machismo usually have little substance. Only judgments relating to character issues (dishonesty), violence, or an excessively critical mind have real substance. Passing judgments on men for being honest (friendly) is shallow, arrogant, and completely against the development of our collective consciousness socially. Judgments from alphas are often hypocritical, cruel, and reside in dishonor. Shallow judgments from authoritarians will always lead to drama, social inequality, and violence. Alphas focus intensely on cutting other men down unfairly in order to promote a better social image, labeling it “competitive”.
It’s time for human beings to end classism for good. It is jealousy. Materialistic development and social image will never supplement dishonesty and cruelty within a personality. Secure men are naturally friendly, level in the mind, and easy to get along with. Alphas focus on head games, stagnation, and conniving.
End the drama….
https://youtu.be/hHcIOwgOHqk
@niramarin
The best song on the album!
@aaronboggs9719
One of the best songs ever written.
@omarjimenez6631
YES
@marymitchell4480
I agree
@keign9470
I concur
@nickhouck9246
💯
@joemama6931
God this album is so fucking amazing. this song never gets old..
@werewolvesofvirginia
Are you Joe Biden's mom?
@briansauer6695
Every one of his albums up to this one, I consider masterpieces where you can listen to every song. It would be hard to pick my favorite out of these first 6 or 7 they are all so good!
@matthewboren357
Definitely his most underrated song, and one of his best