Composition
The song evokes images of homecoming back to Ireland and includes the words: "I'm going back/going back/To my own ones/Back to talk/talk awhile/With my own ones". Van Morrison was quoted by his biographer, Steven Turner as remarking: "But there's a big part of me that's just strictly involved with the island of Ireland.
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