Synth Single Review: “Coming Home” by Donna Lewis & David Lowe

by Karl Magi

Donna Lewis & David Lowe’s “Coming Home” reflects warm affection as it evolves. The song begins with Donna Lewis’s hushed voice carrying a wistfully touching melody as the smoothly gliding rhythm shapes the music. A guitar strums with heartwarming brightness as Donna Lewis’s free, airy voice soars with affection and a sense of homecoming.

David Lowe weaves his production with intense love and soothing emotion here. Glimmering notes levitate as the vocals wrap me in a blanket of comforting warmth above the steadily snapping drum beat. String-like synth textures soften the background while Donna Lewis’s moving voice reaches out like a gentle embrace. The guitar strums as the vocals slide with deep caring and the rhythm adds a guiding pattern. Strings move with rolling drums to deepen the feelings of return and tenderness before the song ends.

Sentimentality seizes the storyteller as she says that she feels it every time “when I’m heading back on the long road and I see those hillside lights.” She’s coming home to the song’s subject. When she feels the other person embracing her and the “loving love that you give me,” she’s in her happy, joyous place as she sees them smile.

“Standing on top of the mountain, I can see those Christmas lights,” so she travels down the mountain “with my faithful angel by my side.” She can see all of the lights as everybody dances happily with “all the beauty surrounding, hands holding hands.”