Diddy-Dirty Money: Coming Home Meaning
Coming Home Lyrics
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
Tell the World I'm coming home
Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday
I know my kingdom awaits and they've forgiven my mistakes
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Tell the World that...
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Actually, everyone is wrong about this song. What it's really about is her coming home from jail. She made a mistake so when they forgive her for that mistake, so they released her and so she's coming back to where she came from. I know this because she recorded this in my dads studio and she said that this is why she wrote the song.
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May be he's leaving the illuminati and getting ready to die because they won't just let him go like that.
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I think this song is about someone who has been away from many loved ones for a very long time. It could be about a soldier returning home after war or a fair maiden who was raped and abused by the Noblesse Oblige. It sounds like she hopes all of the hurt and pain from the past will go away. She knows that her kingdom is there for her "somewhere". It sounds like she is returning to a familiar and beautiful place she thinks of as "home". She has made some mistakes, but she knows that we all do.. We are all "human" to some finite degree. I think she lost the light - the love - of her life for a few years. Maybe she went to jail. This song is about surrounding herself with many loved ones/old friends, her Grandma, her Grandpas, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters, ex-husbands, a Heavenly horse she loves passionately, a Kitty that gives her heaps of trouble, a well-meaning dirty hobo and possibly even some new friends. It is about celebrating a new beginning. Even tho' the lyrics don't have all of that information in the contents it could mean that.
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i know alot of you think this song is about going to heaven... and im pretty religious but i think this song is about a soldier coming home from war. it makes perfect sense!!
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I'd say the song seems to reflect Diddy dealing with moving into middle age, and accepting both his past and present.
Keep in mind he has 6 children to 4 different mothers, and he's been under scrutiny for spoiling them with riches but seemingly setting a poor example as a father (see the ABC interview, june 2010). I'd say part of this song deals with the pressures of his somewhat convoluted family life. In the first verse, 'What if my son stares with a face like my own
And says he wants to be like me when he's grown?'
(Shit! But I ain't finished growing) Certainly testifies to this. In his days as the the headlining act for Uptown records and Bad Boy he apparently lived the high life of strippers and cocaine.
It would be fair to say that one interpretation of 'another day another dawn/ another keisha nice to meet ya/ get the math, I'm gone' reflects a new outlook on his younger years of living an indulgent life - you meet good looking girls, get their number (the math) and probably never speak to her again. Diddy is seemingly trying to reconcile this past with his need to now be a role model for six children whom he spends very little time with.
The other big theme to the song is, of course, his friend the Notorious B.I.G. Many people in years gone by have blamed P. Diddy for Biggie's death, and he responds to this to some extent ('And niggas got the nerve to blame you for it/ And you know you would have took the bullet if you saw it/But you felt it and still feel it'). The second verse talks about, I think, how Diddy has dealt with Biggie's death, 'But you deal with it and you keep ballin/Pour out some liquor, play ball and we keep ballin.' It seems he has felt the pain, but has not let it slow him down; it seems to be a subtle response to criticism that he has an aggressive personality and finds it difficult to deals with stress. The final lines to this verse, 'Baby, we've been living a sin cause we've been really in love/But when we've been living as friends
So you've been a guest in your own home
It's time to make your house your home
Pick up your phone, come on' seems like a partial reference to his former girlfriend, Kim Porter, and their de facto relationship, but I'm not really sure whether he is referring to a desire to have something more, or possibly something else. Please enlighten me...
I think the last verse, 'ain't no stopping us now/I Love that song...' seems to be somewhat cathartic, and brings closure to his musings in the previous 2 verses; Diddy reminds himself that despite the adversity of his childhood, the loss of a close friend and the pressures of being a businessman a hip hop artist with an image and father(Yeah, it's been a long time coming
Lot of fights, lot of scars, lot of bottles
Lot of cars, lot of ups, lot of downs) he has still been immensely successful. The idea of a homecoming is taken metaphorically; his references to returning to Harlem (where he was born but not brought up) seems to refer to the achievement of the success he'd probably imagined when younger, and at the same time a recognition of his background.
I believe that the chorus makes reference to his Roman Catholic background, and the belief that redemption for his indulgent life has been found ('I know my kingdom awaits/ and they've forgiven my mistakes') and that his 'coming home' is a movement towards the values that he had started with in his career -
To me this song isn't a Christian worship song or about suicide. It's about a man realizing that it's time to stop messing around and doing things just for pleasure and "come home" to Jesus.
"I'm coming home
I'm coming home
Tell the World I'm coming home
Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday
I know my kingdom awaits and they've forgiven my mistakes
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Tell the World that I'm coming"
To me this part refers to the decision to give up the life of going after things that aren't important for a life of love and following God - "I know my kingdom awaits and they've forgiven my mistakes"
"Back where I belong, yeah I never felt so strong
(I'm back baby)
And if you with me put your hands high
(put your hands high)
If you ever lost a light before, this ones for you
And you, the dream are for you"
The beginning of this section is pretty clear (back where I belong, etc). The harder part to interpret is "if you ever lost a light before-" My interpretation of that is the light means God in that if you've ever lost your way and strayed from his path. This could also mean losing a loved one though.
"I hear "The Tears of a Clown"
I hate that song
I feel like they talking to me when it comes on"
Tears of a Clown is a song about a man who pretends to be happy when on the inside he is hurting - so it probably means he pretends to be happy for the public but on the inside he just feels sadness.
"Another day another Dawn
Another Keisha, nice to meet ya, get the math I'm gone
What am I 'posed to do when the club lights come on
It's easy to be Puff, its harder to be Sean"
This part is talking about how easy it is to fall into the role of the player/smooth guy because that's whats expected of him especially in the club scene. But even though that's easy to fall into he's left realizing it's a lot harder to find himself and be someone of substance rather than just act the part that the public wants.
"What if the twins ask why I ain't marry their mom(why, damn!)
How do I respond?
What if my son stares with a face like my own
And says he wants to be like me when he's grown
Sh-t! But I ain't finished growing"
This is talking about how he realizes that although it's fine for him to just play the part of Puff and do whatever he wants, he's going to have to answer to his kids. They look up to him and he doesn't want them to follow his example because he feels he isn't the person he wants to be/the person he wants them to look up to yet ("ain't finished growing")
"Another night the inevitible prongs
Another day another Dawn
Just tell Taneka and taresha I'll be better in the morn'
Another lie that I carry on"
This is a concept I'm familiar with in my own life - telling yourself that tomorrow you'll start over and lead a good/clean life even though you know on the inside you won't.
“A house is Not a Home“, I hate this song
Is a house really a home when your loved ones are gone
And n-ggas got the nerve to blame you for it
And you know you woulda took the bullet if you saw it
But you felt it and still feel it
And money can’t make up for it or conceal it
But you deal with it and you keep ballin’
Pour out some liquor, play ball and we keep ballin’"
I'm not totally sure what this means since I don't know much about his history but a lot of people have said it has to do with BIG's death and that makes sense to me. It seems like he has a lot of guilt over the incident and instead of looking to his family or God for support his using money and alcohol to cover his feelings.
"Baby we’ve been living in sin ’cause we’ve been really in love
But we’ve been living as friends
So you’ve been a guest in your own home
It’s time to make your house your home
Pick up your phone, come on"
To me, this part is talking about a relationship where he is sleeping with a girl that he loves but they aren't married or committed in any way - "we've been living as friends, so you've been a guest in your own home." He wants to commit and make their relationship official instead of just sleeping together.
“Ain’t No Stopping Us Now“, I love that song
Whenever it comes on it makes me feel strong
I thought I told y’all that we won’t stop
We back cruising through Harlem, Viso blocks
It’s what made me, saved me, drove me crazy
Drove me away than embraced me
Forgave me for all of my shortcomings
Welcome to my homecoming
Yeah it’s been a long time coming
Lot of fights, lot of scars, lot of bottles
Lot of cars, lot of ups, lot of downs
Made it back, lost my dog (I miss you BIG)
And here I stand, a better man! (a better man"
I think in this part he moves from talking about coming home to God to talking about coming home to his past/old friends. Just like coming home to God, his friends welcome him back with open arms and forgive his mistakes. They're a place of comfort from all the pain he faced when he was gone. And even though the pain he went through on his own was hard, it made him a better person.
"Thank you Lord (Thank you Lord"
I think is is figurative (thank the Lord, I'm happy to be home again) as well as literal (Thank you Lord for all you have done for me). -
Well, I think we can never be too sure of whether He is or is not a christian or whether he is in the illuminati....
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY unless he completely disowns the illuminati or Comes to our side... And i dont know about you but i did see some pretty dodgy stuff in there... One thing i know for sure is that Eminem, U2, Owl City, and many (well not that many) more.. Are now CHRISTIANS..... This is my point.. DOnt judge.. before you completely know..
GOD BLESS -
its about illuminati people.. the girl say that let the rain wash awayit means that that rain is the so called Rain man thats satan0.. its about diddy going back to the kingdom of God because he was once illuminati
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I agree. I think the song is about forgiveness. Finally his loved ones are able to forgive him, hence "coming home". A house is not home when your loved ones gone.. that's talking about when they didn't forgive him yet, of how not at home he felt even though he was in the house.. or in the same place. The kingdom is his loved ones or his circle of family/friends, as usually a kingdom refers to everything that has has. Then he felt "strong", he felt "he had lost a life before" - finally he learned how great his life was when his loved ones were there for him, and how empty he felt when they left. It's a song full of regrets for what has done and the consequences that he got (his loved ones left him). He learned a lesson and eventually they forgive him. He feels strong relief when he finally got a second chance, "thank you lord, thank you lord"
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Christian? wth are yall tlkin about?
This song is Diddys anthem of life right now- All the mistakes hes made and loved ones hes lost(his wife, biggie) hes letting go of the past and hes forgiving himself for any guilt he probably feels for it all. its about His life and how hes letting go of his past and embracing a (hopeful) good future for his kids and himself. It has nothing to do with them dieing but him now strong enough to "go back where he belongs" (NYC) and face the world that blames him for all the mistakes and losses in his life -
His lyrics don't make sense...
' "A house is not a home" , I hate that song. Is a house really a home when you're loved ones is gone.......'
Did Diddy even listen to the lyrics of "a house is not a home" before he wrote his lyrics?
e.g. the part lyrics that goes: "a house is not a home when there is no-one there to hold you tight, no one there to kiss you goodnight".
If he did, he's an idiot who didn't understand the simplest of lyrics. If he didn't he's a sham whose lyrics simply rhyme and have no meaning!
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