Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 â€“ December 6, 1988), nicknamed "The Big O", was an influential American singer-songwriterand a pioneer of rock and roll, whose recording career spanned more than four decades. By the mid-1960s Orbison was internationally recognized for his ballads of lost love, rhythmically advanced melodies, three-octave vocal range, characteristic dark sunglasses, and sometimes distinctive usage of falsetto, typified in songs such as "Only The Lonely", "Oh, Pretty Woman", and "Crying". In 1989, he was inducted posthumously into the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame. Two common misconceptions about his appearance stubbornly continue to surface about Orbison: one, that he was an albino, and two, that he wore his trademark dark glasses because he was blind or nearly so. Neither is correct, although his poor vision required him to wear thick corrective lenses (He suffered from childhood from a combination of hyperopia, severe astigmatism, presbyopia, anisometropia, and strabismus).
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Coming Home Lyrics

Roy Orbison

It's a long and lonely highway.
When you're traveling all alone.
I was on my way to nowhere.
But now i'm coming home.
I'm coming home.

I've been running through the fire.
I've been running for so long.
If i took it any higher.
Baby i would be still be gone.

But now i'm coming home, coming home.i'm coming home.
Coming home, coming home, i'm coming home.

Well my home was really never.
On a far and distant shore.
If i stayed away forever.
I could never miss you more.

And so i'm coming home,coming home.i'm coming home.
Coming home,coming home,i'm coming home.

I think of all these years gone by.
Never even wondered why.
I never touched the ground.
All the time that's come and gone.
All the nights i've been alone.
And now i'm homeward bound.

I heard the thunder over canaan.
And i've heard the angels cry.
And their voices came revealing
"as you live,so will you die."

I'm coming home,coming home,i'm coming home.
I'm coming home,coming home,i'm coming home.

Coming home, coming home, i'm coming home
I'm coming home
I'm coming home, coming home, coming home...