Avenged Sevenfold: Coming Home Meaning

Coming Home Lyrics

I've been away, searching for a reason
Another purpose to find
I've sailed the seas, fought my many demons
I've looked the gods in the skys
I've stood in hell, where many had to suffer
I stared the devil in the eyes
Walked many roads to...

1. anonymous

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   Feb 15th 2023 !⃝

   Even though I think it's actually about Homer's "The Odyssey", it reminds me of Fallout: New Vegas and the hardships the Courier has faced. I feel like the Courier would write this during the Lonesome Road due to all of the similar descriptions of his past like "Had many storms
   Question my conviction" really reminds me of what the courier would be thinking during Dead Money. I do not think in any way they based this song off of FNV, but I think it's a pretty cool correlation.
2. anonymous

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   Oct 6th 2020 !⃝

   I think it's about the odyssey by homer. It talks about looking at gods in the sky, referring to MT Olympus. It also talks about his weary limbs growing old. The journey in the odyssey took 20 years, which is quite some time. When he says I'm coming home it can interpreted as him trying to return home to Ithicus. When he says gave armies reason to rise, he is talking about when his men slaughtered the animals and enslaved the women on an island and an army was sent after Odysseus and his crew. Staring the devil in the eyes is referring to the cyclops when he poked out the cyclops' eye.
3. anonymous

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   Oct 16th 2018 !⃝

   To me, this song is more about a man living a very, very eventful life, and finally getting ready to settle down and relax after many years of being quite nomadic. He seems like Scrooge McDuck in this sense.
4. anonymous

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   Jun 15th 2018 !⃝

   I don't think that they intended it to be this way, but when i listen to the song and see the lyrics it kinda gives me a feeling that it could be about Jesus, especially with the Chorus "live again, all roads end, i'll be coming home". He rose from death, then countering the say all roads lead to Rome by saying they all end, and then saying he'll be coming home, to heaven. There are various other parts like fighting his demons and staring the devil in the eye like Jesus did in the desert. Again just a way that i can see it can be interpreted as, i don't think the band had planned that though.
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   Mar 6th 2017 !⃝

   I think it's the story of Paul - can I get a second on this?
6. anonymous

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   Aug 2nd 2014 !⃝

   In my way of relating to it is what he's lived through and is going back to his life before the events that changed him.
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   Mar 24th 2014 !⃝

   Shadows says this song is about how the band has traveled all over the world but at the end of the day they just want to get home. "I've stood in hell where many had to suffer" apparently refers to them standing in Saddam Hussein's palace and "I've looked the devil in the eye" refers to the portrait of Saddam on the wall.
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   Dec 8th 2013 !⃝

   I think the song is about Odysseus, an ancient Greek hero. Primarily Homer's Odyssey, when Odysseus is coming home from the Trojan War. I base my interpretation on the lyrics, "I looked to gods in the skys" a reference to the Greek gods on Mount Olympus. There is also other evidence this is just one piece.
9. anonymous

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   Nov 12th 2013 !⃝

   I personally believe this song is about corruption and redemption. For instance, he was once a good person but throughout the many hurdles and events in his life ( "fought my many demons" "walked many roads" etc) which has possibly sent him down the wrong path to a less moral, or evil in exaggerated terms, behaviour. He says he's stood in hell, and looked the devils in the eyes which could be seen as he's been bad enough to be able to almost match the devil, or perhaps an adaption/play on the saying 'the devil in their eyes'. Although there are many hints to the start of his journey away from evil ("while i escape the night" "i won't sin again") showing that he is trying to redeem himself and once again be a good person. Hence he is trying to almost return to his old self, which i believe is he refers to as 'home' therefore 'coming home' is saying that he is on the path to being his old, good self. (also, "tend your light" would be saying how he's returning home to the light, and he needs to tend his light to almost reignite it [the light obviously representing good in this situation] ) although home could also be intepreted as his close ones, so he is becoming good again and he is telling his family/friends that he is coming home and he will be his old self once again.
   Towards the end it is simply saying how he may have grown old, but he is still trying to redeem himself and eventually die as a good human being. The mentions of heaven and hell are possible saying how at the end of it all if he doesn't redeem himself, he will go to hell, so when he has decided he wants to go to heaven and not go to hell where 'many have suffered'

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