Saturn Nights
Written by Dan Peek, ©1972
Found on Homecoming, Highway, and Homecoming-DVD-Audio.

One more song about movin' along the highway
Feel the fantasy in the air

(Ah -- --)

Filled the room with flowers from Norway
Sensed her majesty in the air
Made a sign 'bove your doorway, to show I care

I've been waiting every morning
Just to help you find your way
I've been standing on your corner
(Don't go away) Don't go away

One more song about movin' along the highway
Feel the fantasy in the air

I've been waiting every morning
Just to help you find your way
I've been waiting every morning
Help me make it through the day

I've been waiting every morning
Just to help you find your way
I've been waiting every morning
Help me make it through the day

I've been waiting every morning ...

Highway Highlight (from the box set booklet) Homecoming closed with "Saturn Nights," an expression of longing and loneliness written by Peek: "Again, it was about my wife-to-be. That was a song I worked very, very diligently on. I remember sitting up in the Hollywood Hills in a little rented place that Gerry and I were in, banging away on the piano. To Gerry and Dewey's credit, a lot of it came together in the studio. I think it was the first song we recorded at the Record Plant." The title had cosmic implications:" I had gotten kind of hung up on astrology and probably had my chart done, and somebody said, 'The moon is in Saturn,' or whatever. The explanation was that Saturn influenced us in this melancholy way, and I've always been a person who's had a bluer outlook on life. I think as I was writing I thought, It's night, and Saturn is probably in the ascendance. And there was a wordplay there--I felt like a Saturn-ite."