Almost Home

About this song

Written by Craig Morgan and Kerry Kurt Phillips, the song was released in November 2002 as the second single from the album I Love It. It was Morgan's first Top 10 country hit and earned him a BMI Song of the Year award and a Songwriter's Achievement Award from the Nashville Songwriters' Association International. In 2022 he performed it at the Grand Ole Opry with Jelly Roll, and it later came out as a single from the 2023 EP Enlisted.

What it's about

A ballad about the singer finding an old homeless man sleeping behind a trash can on a cold winter day. When he wakes him, the man says he is almost home and describes what he had been doing in his dream, then turns down a ride to a shelter. Phillips has said the line is deliberately open-ended, leaving listeners to decide whether the man is dreaming or dying.

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Fun facts

• Covered once, including “Almost Home by Roy Caudill”.
• Written by Craig Morgan and Phil O’Donnell.
• Produced by Kerry Kurt Phillips and Craig Morgan.