[Intro — Soft Synth Pad, Distant Pulse, No Vocals] [Instrumental — Slow atmospheric build, 8 bars] [Verse 1] I'm standing in a city that's not mine The streetlights here don't flicker like they did I've learned the language but I still can't find The words to say how much I miss you, kid I wake before the sun has touched the glass And for a second I forget where I am Then I remember everything too fast And I'm a stranger in a foreign land [Pre-Chorus] I keep your jacket folded in a drawer I wear your smell on nights I can't sleep I know you're sleeping when I'm wide awake And the distance is a wound that's ten years deep [Chorus] I'm a thousand miles from home But I'm a million miles from you I carry you in every crowded room I see your face in every shade of blue I'm a thousand miles from home And home is anywhere you are But I'm here, and you're there And the world is just too far [Instrumental Interlude — No Vocals] [Lead Electric Guitar Solo — Crying, vocal-like tone, expressive string bends and long sustained notes, the guitar "sings" the homesickness the singer cannot voice, exposed and front-and-centre over shimmering synth pads and a soft pulse, no drums, 16 bars, no singing, humming, or vocalizations] [Verse 2] I found a photo hidden in my phone From the night before I left, you didn't know You were laughing at something I can't recall And I've stared at it so long I've lost it all I've built a life here, piece by careful piece A job, a flat, a garden, some kind of peace But peace is not the same as being known And peace is not the sound of your voice on the phone [Pre-Chorus] I keep your jacket folded in a drawer I wear your smell on nights I can't sleep I know you're sleeping when I'm wide awake And the distance is a wound that's ten years deep [Chorus] I'm a thousand miles from home But I'm a million miles from you I carry you in every crowded room I see your face in every shade of blue I'm a thousand miles from home And home is anywhere you are But I'm here, and you're there And the world is just too far [Instrumental Interlude — No Vocals] [Lead Electric Guitar Solo — Crying, vocal-like tone, answering the chorus with its own melodic line, escalating bends and vibrato, then falling into quiet resignation, 12 bars, no vocals of any kind] [Bridge — Stripped, Intimate, No Drums] They say that time will make it easier They say that distance makes the heart grow strong But I've been gone for years and I still feel you In every song I can't bring myself to sing along [Final Chorus — Full Arrangement, Soaring] I'm a thousand miles from home But I'm a million miles from you I carry you in every crowded room I see your face in every shade of blue I'm a thousand miles from home And home is anywhere you are I'm a thousand miles from home And home is anywhere you are But I'm here, and you're there And the world is just too far [Outro — Soft Synth Pad, Fading Pulse, No Vocals] [Lead Electric Guitar — Lone melodic fragment, distant and reverb-drenched, slow fade to silence]
