“From a Million Miles”
by Single Gun Theory
from the album Millions, Like Stars In My Hands, Daggers In My Heart, Wage War
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I remember the very first time I heard “From A Million Miles.”  I was sitting in my bedroom and a slight breeze was coming through window.  It was after midnight on a Sunday so it was dead quiet in the neighborhood and the only light was the glow from the TV.  As soon as the video began to play, I was instantly transported someplace completely different.  There was something so exotic about the sounds and imagery.

I grew up in a small, southern town and lived there until I moved to New York City as an adult.  My connection to the larger world up until that point was music and more specifically, MTV’s 120 Minutes.  120 featured so many artists that weren’t available to me on radio or even the local record bin.  This music from abroad paired with imagery of all these foreign lands and cultures created a little oasis in my mind.  A two-hour vacation every week to places I didn’t know even existed.

I have a memory of this video being shot in some exotic local, but looking at it now, it’s almost all in the studio.  Fans, camera movement and lighting.  That’s really all it is.  But that’s the power of music + vision.  Every time I hear this song, I’m simultaneously taken back to both my childhood bedroom and some distant land I’ve yet to visit.

I absolutely loved this song for decades (!) but had never purchased the album until a couple of years back.  It’s beautiful and a must-have in my opinion.  Play it at night.