10,000 Miles

Willson-Piper (lyrics & music) / Kilbey (music)
(Northern Songs/Sony/ATV Music Publishing)

Appears On:

• Remote Luxury (EP) (1984), Side 1, Track 2
• Remote Luxury (1984), Track 4
• Sing-Songs//Remote Luxury//Persia (2001), Track 7
• Marty Willson-Piper - Live At The Fine Line Cafe (2000), Track 6 - Live
• Marty Willson-Piper - Live At The Knitting Factory 1988 (2000), Track 6 - Live
• Marty Willson-Piper - Live From The Other Side (2004), Track 11 - Live
• Covers:
  • Eric Nilsen and the Relics - Having Fun with the Relics (2014), Track 31

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Aug. 20, 2013]

Dark, small, so fragile
A treasure to your heart
Grace your fingers across the lacquer
Think of someone miles away
Piano sounds that bow in the distance
Bring me back to my room again

Ten thousand (ten thousand) miles away (miles away)
Ten thousand (ten thousand) miles away (miles away)

My memory is leaking (leaking)
She lost a ruby ring
They're trying to focus, times in the past
The music has stopped and can't carry on
All of a sudden I start to remember
Summer, Germany, then it's gone

Ten thousand (ten thousand) miles away (miles away)
Ten thousand (ten thousand) miles away (miles away)

The dancers are sleepy
The keys are put away
The jewel on my jacket talking, talking
Telling stories everyone's heard
My box of ghosts bids me goodnight
Clockwork spirits have the last word

Ten thousand (ten thousand) miles away (miles away)
Ten thousand (ten thousand) miles away (miles away)
Ten thousand (ten thousand) miles away (miles away)
Ten thousand (ten thousand) miles away (miles away)
Ten thousand (ten thousand)....