LONG WAY HOME BY MARCUS GAD

The second single from the upcoming READY FOR BATTLE album, “Long Way Home” is a love song of sorts for New Caledonia, Marcus Gad’s home island in the Pacific Ocean. “‘Long Way Home’ is a song I wrote for my country, my island, when I was far away and felt the distance the most,” Marcus says. “When you’re away from home, surprisingly realistic memories sometimes pop up. They take on various forms; the smell of freshly squeezed kava, the texture of laterite gravel under one’s foot, the particular light of sunrise on a Pacific island, or the intonation of an Elder telling a tale in a local dialect. So many things that bring me back to my land despite the distance that separates me from it…”