This lesson uses lyrics from a 1988 rock song by Crowded House to give students practice in interpreting similes and metaphors to discover underlying meaning. While the song seems to be about a stormy relationship between the speaker (or singer) and his lover. another interpretation indicates that the song describes a voyage of homecoming. I have used this song to teach students about similes and metaphors but was happy to realize that it also relates to the navigation theme of the cross-curric