No More Home No More Love
SoKo Lyrics

SoKo's song "No More Home No More Love" is a melancholic reflection on the realities of life as a travelling musician. The opening lines immediately establish the sense of displacement that comes with this lifestyle: "No more home, I downgrade on the couch again, I swear I'll make myself tiny, I just have a guitar and a suitcase with me". The singer finds herself living in a state of semi-permanent homelessness, crashing on the sofas of acquaintances and travelling light. Despite the initial thrill of living a vagabond existence, the more sobering aspects of this constant movement soon become apparent: "Much more worries, it was fun just for a second, to be a vagabond musician, but I could use some security now". The "fun" of the lifestyle is fleeting, and the lack of stability soon takes its toll.

The second verse shifts the focus to the singer's romantic life, with the line "No more love, I've been fired of my caretaker job". This implies that the relationship was one of unequal emotional investment, and that the singer was the one who loved more intensely. This has clearly caused her pain: "And I suffer even more". Like the sense of homelessness in the first verse, the experience of heartbreak is presented as something that the singer has endured before: "And I just can't recall how I did it before, oh love is much bigger when you're young". The suggestion is that the resilience to cope with difficult experiences fades with age, and that the singer must "learn it all again".

This is a poignant song that speaks to the universal desire for stability, security and emotional fulfillment, and the way that this is often elusive in the transient lifestyle of a touring musician.