And I'd daydream in school with far away eyes Living the words of the radio songs Making my plans someday to take the stage With a rock and roll band And I would play in the light of a thousand smiles Spreading through the towns, spreading through the

Oh, baby, I want to come home to you Baby, I got to get home to you Days and nights feeling so blue Lord, I just don't know what I'm gonna do Oh, baby, I wanna come home Oh, baby, I you're one thousand miles away Baby, you're just one thousand miles away

Can't fool me (no, no, no) Can't fool a man who's been around, You can't leave me (no, no, no) Without me knowin' where you're goin' Can't get away Can see you baby from a thousand miles away, And I know you love me, no matter what you say. I can tell

Don't give up Hold on a little longer What don't kill you Roots, remind me where I'm from Only makes you stronger Even when I'm a thousand miles away from my roots Ooh, I wouldn't change a thing It made the man I am today

Take these chains off Take 'em off my heart Give me some kind of life Leave me be I move away it don't do me no good Three thousand miles don't help like I thought it would Help me, beggin' you please You got the power down on my knees Reach out to me,

A car has killed a friend down in Chicago, thousand miles away J.B Lenoir is dead and it's hit me like a hammer blow J.B had a struggle playin' unappreciated blues in vain When I read the news, night came early in my day I cry inside my heart that the

In the fall, in the fall, when the tide took them all I gave my life to save her The ocean turned to red Cut down like lambs at slaughter, Good men were left for dead Time rolling along with the waves, A thousand miles away Holding you close in the rain,

Every day, a castaway A vagabond, battle born I don't know where I'm going I've flown a million miles And I've rode so many more I've been a thousand places And shook a million hands But I know just where I've been I'm battle born

A thousand miles away from that speed trap town She said, "It's none of my business but it breaks my heart" Dropped a dozen cheap roses in my shopping cart Made it out to the truck without breaking down Everybody knows you in a speed trap town Well it's

My English love affair The picture burning in my brain, kissing in the rain I can't forget, my English love affair Today, I'm seven thousand miles away The movie playing in my head of a king size bed means I can't forget Before I knew it, it was serious