Unique, silly song built on great melodies, sung and played, and a sneaky good chord structure carried by a fluidly played guitar. The song is funny but delivers a passionate message about connection and making a family.

How often are duets written anymore? There are plenty of two-vocal songs, where some guest star pops in for a highlight moment or two. But when last were there two parts that interacted with each other and the interaction was part of the story of the song?

I love songs that take a melody line and reprise it later with the rhythm or note sequence slightly altered, usually fitted over a subtly altered chord sequence. That's the "Alabama Arkansas" in the ending for me. Writing my own music, I loved finding these opportunities.

Lyrically, so many songs are purely vagaries passed off as insight. This is especially true of love songs. "Home" goes into details of this couple's experience. We are given concrete details of their memories together, down to the payphone calls. Their spoken conversation in the middle development is novel, sweet, and again gives us a legitimate portrait. They speak so respectfully to each other. This is no generic "can't get my mind off you" love ode. I'd like the song even more to know that this story is totally fictional, because it would further show the super imagination at play, and I use the word "play" specifically.

Songs are more than a good beat, sexy singing, and templates of genre conventions. Songs are incarnate imagination. They can be creative joy, just like families.