Available on: Blind Melon, Classic Masters, 12" Picture Disc single, cd single, Letters From a Porcupine, two short form videos

Recorded at: London Bridge Studios, Seattle, WA 1992

Produced by: Rick Parashar and Blind Melon

Brad: bass
Christopher: guitar
Glen: drums
Rogers: guitar
Shannon: vocals

Live Performances: played very frequently, often as an opener

Notes:
This song was on the demo tape that got them signed to Capitol Records.  It was the first single the band released.

It reached #10 in the Mainstream Rock Chart and #20 in the Modern Rock Chart.

Rogers:Tones of Home is somewhat autobiographical.  Brad wrote the last verse, I wrote the middle verse, and Shannon wrote the first verse.  So the song is sort of about our collective view of leaving our repressed, conservative environments and becoming more aware.  My verse was about how I viewed Los Angeles when I first got here.  I was so disillusioned.  I assumed it was gonna be this utopian envionment with lots of great musicians playing, all wanting to do different things.  There would be good music going on, and it wouldn't be hard to find other musicans with similar ideas.  Obviously, you have to wade through a lot of slude to find that.

The second video was filmed in a theater in downtown Los Angeles.

Lyrics:
What do you think they would say
If I stood up and I walked away
Nobody here really understands
me, and so I'll wave goodbye, I'm fine
Tones of home
Said you don't like the way I'm living
Tones of home
And so I wave goodbye
I'm flyin, I'm flyin home
And I always thought this would be
The land of milk and honey
Oh but I come to find out that its
All hate and money
And theres a canopy of greed holding me down
See I'm so high to you, so I'll fade away
I said you're on your own
Your mom and daddy said, that your
Sister said, and your brothers saying
Everybody, is saying everybody, is
Sayin I, eye, good I gotta go
All my friends patronize me and
They say yo hey boy have you found
What your looking for
It seems they don't really know
Me cause its here, and its what they can't see