It seems that Denver's perception is that the longer he spends away from home, the more risk there is of changes occurring to his birthplace, which he finds disorienting. But inevitable changes have occurred because of the time spent away in a new location.
The speaker/writer clearly wants to remember his home the way it was when he left it in his youth. Take Me Home, Country Road by John Denver portrays the inevitability of change. Some of the songs which illustrate this are John Denver's country hit, Take Me Home, Country Road the country-style rock classic Take it Easy by The Eagles Memory, the theme from the musical Cats, by Barbara Streisand Streets of London by The Beatles, a pop ballad Where do you go to, my lovely? a rock ballad by Peter Sarstedt and the rock hit, Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. Three features shared by memories and roads are the inevitability of change, perspective, and a linkage which allows the physical road to lead to an emotive response in the memory. The use of roads as metaphors for human memory is effective because the two have a number of things in common, despite the reality that memory exists only metaphysically. Memories and roads or streets have been the subject matter of numerous world famous songs.
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