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Lyrics and Music by Vanessa Carlton
Performed by Vanessa Carlton
© 2000 Vanessa Carlton/Universal Music Publishing Group/Interscope Records
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Making my way downtown, walking fast
Faces pass and I’m home bound
Staring blankly ahead, just making my way
Making a way through the crowd
And I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder
If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
‘Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight
It’s always times like these when I think of you
And I wonder if you ever think of me
‘Cause every thing’s so wrong and I don’t belong
Living in your precious memory
‘Cause I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder
If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
‘Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight
And I, I Don’t wanna let you know I,
I Drown in your memory I,
I Don’t wanna let this go I, I don’t
Making my way downtown, walking fast
Faces pass and I’m home bound
Staring blankly ahead, just making my way
Making a way through the crowd
And I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder
If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
‘Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight
If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
‘Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight
What would you do for love?
A Thousand Miles is a pop song written by American singer Vanessa Carlton and recorded for her album Be Not Nobody (2002). It became Carlton’s breakthrough hit and her signature song as well as one of the most popular songs of the year.
A Thousand Miles is a piano-driven pop song supported by a string orchestral arrangement, in which its protagonist (Carlton) pines for her lover, from whom she has been separated. Carlton said that she wrote the song about her grandfather who had earlier died. She has also called the song “a combination of reality and fantasy. It’s about a love that so consumes you that you do anything for it. That’s how I felt at that time”.
In its finished form, the song was first heard during a scene in the Reese Witherspoon film Legally Blonde (2001). It also became popular amongst U.S. troops serving in Iraq, and in April 2003 the Chicago Sun-Times reported that it had become the most requested song on the radio station British Forces Broadcasting Service Middle East. Carlton responded, “Perhaps, A Thousand Miles conveys the feelings and longing and desperation that the U.S. soldiers feel for their loved ones. I don’t know. But whatever peace I am able to bring to the hearts of the people at war is a contribution that I am proud of.”