Welcome Home (Brian Littrell song)
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- For other uses of "Welcome Home", see Welcome Home (disambiguation)Welcome Home (disambiguation)Welcome Home may refer to:*"Welcome Home" , a UK number one single for Peters and Lee in 1973*Welcome Home , an album by 'Til Tuesday*"Welcome Home ", a 1986 Metallica song...
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"Welcome Home" also known as "Welcome Home (You)" is the first single from Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys
The Backstreet Boys are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The band originally consisted of A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson. They rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys...
member Brian Littrell
Brian Littrell
Brian Thomas Littrell is an American singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys. He is also a contemporary Christian recording artist and released a solo album, Welcome Home, in 2006...
. It was written by Brian Littrell and Dan Muckala and is the title song of the album Welcome Home. Littrell wrote his part in Vienna
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, Austria
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when he was touring with the Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys
The Backstreet Boys are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The band originally consisted of A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson. They rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys...
. This song was also by the compilation album WOW Hits 2007
WOW Hits 2007
WOW Hits 2007 is a two-disc compilation album of songs that have been touted to represent the best of Christian music of 2006. It was released on October 3, 2006. The album features songs by Jeremy Camp, Casting Crowns, MercyMe, Chris Tomlin, and many more highly renowned groups and singers. The...
, and this song was member by Backstreet Boys.
The single reached #2 on the US Christian AC Charts. It was also #1 for 3 weeks on the US Christian Inspirational charts.
Music video
The music video includes Brian singing and playing his guitar, and showing glimpses of a family, from a child going to school, to a the child going to the military. In the middle of the song, the father sees on television that his son is MIA (Missing in Action). He drops the note that his son gives him before his disappearance. At the end, the child comes back to the father, with the other soldiers. The ghost soldiers come back too, and people who lost their daughters/sons can see them before they go into Heaven.In an alternate ending of the video, Brian is seen walking off into the distance on a set of train tracks.