Thousands of Miles

Lyrics

[STEPHEN, spoken] There is a great gulf between people, between husband and wife, between parents and child. But when there is love, then distance doesn't matter at all, distance or silence or years.  (sung) How many miles to the heart of a child? Thousands of miles, thousands of miles When he lay on your breast, he looked up and smiled Across tens of thousands, thousands of miles Each lives alone in a world of dark Crossing the skies in a lonely arc Save when lovе leaps out like a leaping spark Ovеr thousands, thousands of miles Not miles or walls or length of days Nor the cold doubt of midnight can hold us apart For swifter than wings of the morning The pathways of the heart How many miles to the heart of a son? Thousands of miles, thousands of miles Farther off than the rails or the roadways run Across tens of thousands, thousands of miles The lines on the map stretch far and thin To the streets and days that close him in But then as of old he turns 'round to grin Over thousands, thousands of miles Not miles or walls or length of days Nor the cold doubt of midnight can hold us apart For swifter than wings of the morning The pathways of the heart Over tens of thousands of miles