Good morning everyone and I hope you have a great Christmas.
The guitar in this song is haunting…
This song is actually Hynde’s tribute to guitarist and founding band member James Honeyman-Scott, who died of a drug overdose in 1982 at the age of 25.
“2000 Miles” was released as a single in December of 1983 and appeared as the 10th track of The Pretenders’ Learning to Crawl album. The single was popular in the UK, where it peaked at #15 on the UK Singles Chart. Learning to Crawl peaked at #5 in the Billboard 200 albums chart.
In 2014, while finishing up her album Stockholm, Hynde collaborated with Bjorn Yttling on an updated version of “2000 Miles. It was released as a Christmas single in the UK that December.
2000 Miles
He’s gone two thousand miles
It’s very far
The snow is falling down
Gets colder day by day
I miss you The children will sing
He’ll be back at Christmas timeIn these frozen and silent nights
Sometimes in a dream you appear
Outside under the purple sky
Diamonds in the snow sparkle
Our hearts were singing
It felt like Christmas timeTwo thousand miles
Is very far through the snow
I’ll think of you
Wherever you go
He’s gone two thousand miles
It’s very far
The snow is falling down
Gets colder day by day
I miss you
I can hear people singing
It must be Christmas time
I hear people singing
It must be Christmas time
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Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones! I literally just heard this song minutes ago on Radio Caroline, probably as you were posting it. It’s one of my favorites in my personal Christmas playlist.
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Merry Christmas to you and your family! It’s one on top of my list also.
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This is such a lovey song, Merry Christmas Max.
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Merry Christmas Jim!
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Amazingly sounding song! And Chrissie Hynde has such a great voice!
Based on the clip, it looks like they were using Telecasters. I’m shocked, I would have bet these were Rickenbackers! 🙂
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Yea they have to be Ricks! It is a really good song…a great Christmas song without being so commercial.
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I have this record but need to listen to it more! People must get confused between this and The Proclaimers’ 500 Miles.
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They are more than 1500 miles apart.
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A very good song that is oft-overlooked in the Christmas mix. Actually it would be one of the two or three favorites by the Pretenders to me, seasonal or not.
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Yes…it’s a good song regardless.
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A beautiful and poignant song. Brings tears to my eyes every time.
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