Album: Learning to Crawl (1983)
Lyrics excerpt:
In 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 time
Reasons to love this song:
For me it is one of the two best non-religious Christmas songs (the other one being The Pogues' Fairytale of New York). It perfectly captures the melancholy feeling of separation from a loved one as Christmas is approaching (regardless of whether the loved one is physically far away or even dead -- the song is said to be inspired by the 1982 death of The Pretenders' guitarist James Honeyman-Scott.
2000 Miles was used in the series Beverly Hills, 90210, in a scene in which the character Steve Sanders leaves to search for his real mother. I remember that, even though I didn't like the series very much and I thought Steve was an unsympathetic character, the song gave poignancy to the scene and almost made me cry.
Link to Amazon preview:
2000 Miles
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A live performance from 1995:
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