Please Come To Boston

The lyrics contrast a man’s restless travel with a woman’s wish for him to return and settle down. He invites her to join him in Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles, imagining a fresh life in each place. She refuses each invitation and asks him to come home instead. As the song develops, his confident plans give way to a more vulnerable admission: for all his movement and dreams, he wants someone to share his songs with.

Several images make his imagined futures appealing but uncertain. Selling paintings beside a café suggests a modest, hoped-for start rather than established success. In Denver, the lovers would call “I love you” into a canyon and hear the echoes return, an image of romance that also hints at isolation. In Los Angeles, the house above the ocean and “stars that fell from the sky” suggest glamour or a dreamlike life, but the phrase may simply express how extraordinary the place seems to him.

The repeated “there ain’t no gold” can mean that the cities offer no real reward, especially compared with the love waiting at home. Yet the man’s longing to roam is not presented as entirely foolish: he seems drawn to possibility, while also recognizing what he lacks. The closing refrain leaves some ambiguity about whether he will ever choose home over the road.