This song, written by Kerry Livgren, is about an alien who has come to Earth, only to find it a destroyed, desolate dystopia with no living creature inhabiting it.
[Verse 1]
It's empty now, no friendly face
And nothing lives within
I look around and I find no trace
To tell me what has been
[Chorus 1]
So far I've come to find
There's no one here, no life I fear
I came for nothing, they have gone
And nobody's home, no one's home
[Verse 2]
I came to learn, perhaps to teach
But I can tell somehow
The world that I was sent to reach
Has got no future now
[Chorus 2]
Across the galaxy to spread the word
And no one heard
I came for nothing, I'm alone
And nobody's home, no one's home
[Verse 3]
A requiem was never sung
No elegy was read
No monument was carved in stone
In memory of the dead
[Chorus 3]
For those who made this place
Do not remain, they feel no pain
A stranger fate was never known
Nobody’s Home was written by Kerry Livgren & Steve Walsh.
Nobody’s Home was produced by Jeff Glixman.
Kansas released Nobody’s Home on Tue Oct 11 1977.