"The Going Price For Home"

"The Going Price for Home" is a song by the American musician Claudio Sanchez under his solo project, The Prize Fighter Inferno. It is the first song on the project's 2006 debut album My Brother's Blood Machine.

Lyrics
[Verse 1] And I've paid the price of solitude With wish to worry while you're away With all grace to allow my hand The travel and worth here, across your face

[Pre-Chorus] I love you more than you could know In those eyes, you hide it well, I think you do I love you more than you could know Here in those eyes, you hide it well, I think you do

[Verse 2] As I turn the wheels that round the ground Across the Never, here, against the Grave Now I've lost the only thing that matters To my life is now the dream?

[Pre-Chorus] I love you more than you could know Here in those eyes, you hide it well, I think you do I love you more than you could know Here in those eyes, you hide it well, I think you do

[Chorus] Here I go, I'm on my way home, now To you, and it hurts to hear you feel Here I go, I'm on my way home, now To you, and it hurts to hear you feel

[Chorus] Here I go, I'm on my way home, now To you, and it hurts to hear you feel Here I go, I'm on my way home, now To you, and it hurts to hear you feel

Here I go, I'm on my way home, now To you, and it hurts to hear you feel Here I go, I'm on my way home, now To you, and it hurts to hear you feel

Story Context
"" '''As the official story has not yet been released, anything in this section is speculation, not fact. More so than usual, of course.'''

It is speculated that this song depicts Arthur McCloud's arrival home from some long absence (perhaps a business trip). Perhaps this song is foreshadowing, and he is already deceased with the "going home" part referring to something more abstract.

Considering he does die, this could potentially also be from Martha McCloud's perspective with the lines "I love you more than you could know" and "Here in those eyes, you hide it well, I think you do" from the pre-chorus referring to Arthur (that is, she telling him she loves him, and she knows his dirty secret and finds it amazing that he can hide it so well). This theory is backed up by the lines in Verse 2 in which someone seems to be visiting a grave and conveying a sense of loss; perhaps Martha's grief over her husband, and/or potentially at least one of her children.