What is “North Is North” about?
"North Is North" is a homecoming song that begins in a small wooden house, in a country that knows how to be quiet for a long time. After a year or two of walking in circles that only looked like progress, the narrator becomes a compass needle that finally points true, and sees that home was a door that was always open. Placed eleventh on Solstice Light, it closes not on arrival but on the realization "I am already here."
North Is North lyrics
I came out of a small wooden house
Where the kettle remembered everyone
I came out of a country
That knows how to be quiet for a long time
I lost the map for a year or two
I walked in circles that looked like progress
But the needle in my chest kept shaking
Until it finally pointed me true
North is north, north is north
I have been walking a long time
Toward a door that was always open
North is north, north is north
I am the needle and the needle sings
Of where my one heart belongs
There is a village inside of me
With blue doors and a slow river
I did not know I could walk home
Simply by deciding to
North is north, north is north
I have been walking a long time
Toward a door that was always open
North is north, north is north
I am the needle and the needle sings
Of where my one heart belongs
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Home is the thing that finds you walking
Home is the thing that finds you walking
North is north
North is north
And I am already here