Lyrics
there is no where left to hide
there is nothing to be done
no people to be saved
no pets we’ve never named
40 miles from the sun
as darkness craves the mind
we come undone without our pride
no time on earth to come
all the pleasure’s just begun
40 miles from the sun
In our coats beneath the layers
wash my skin of all the hate
we should sleep late
everything just kind of grates
40 miles from the sun
40 miles from the sun
40 miles from the sun
I need to lose to make it right
I’ll confront the stars tonight
I will babble I will bite
you’ll never know how much you shine
40 miles from the sun
40 miles from the sun
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from the sun
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About The Song
wtf does that word mean?:
grates [v.] to reduce to small particles by rubbing on something rough
babble [t.v.] to utter in an incoherently or meaninglessly repetitious manner
Band Thoughts:
“The first song I wrote was 40 Miles. I wanted to do a song that was like you were walking at the end of the world. There seems to be the fear of the apocalypse, fear of the change we’re undergoing”.- Gavin
“What I like about the song is that it’s so cinematic; I just think of Kubrick, or Kurosawa’s Seven Samuri. It’s really wide, this song, like the falling apart of everything. It’s really bleak, like someone’s journey into their own dissolution.”- Gavin
speaking about the line ‘I’ll confront the stars tonight.’ & astrology- “I love it when it’s done properly. I’m not a fan of it unless people really know what they’re talking about. I have a really open mind about all these things. Anything is possible. That’s the reference in that song. The only problem I have with it is that it doesn’t give advice, it just explains things.”- Gavin
“Well Forty Miles is an apocalyptic vision, so it needed to sound like a cinematic washed-out landscape. I couldn’t just have Robin (Goodridge, drums)on there playing brushes, because it needed something more than that. So we ended up with a more expansive, layered sound for the song. And each song ultimately took on its own personality.”- Gavin
“…a view of the apocalypse in ‘40 Miles from the Sun..”- Gavin
“One thing I learned on this album is that clean sounds cut through dirty ones really well, instead of just adding one grungy sound on top of another. For the clean stuff, like on ‘40 Miles From the Sun’, I used this Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer compression pedal. It plugs straight into the amp, and gives you this quite hard compression that has a real singing quality to it.”- Nigel
Staff Thoughts:
“This song is great. The most overlooked Bush ballad ever. Why? I don’t know.. but the writing is dead on.” -Brandyn.
“The first time I listen to the album, I thought this just might be my favorite song. It just wowed me. I still like it very much, but there’s just one other song on the album that I like better.”-Laura
Fan Thoughts:
