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I had the tune and lyrics in 45 minutes flat.

Lyrics taken from All rights reserved. A hundred miles, a hundred miles A hundred miles, a hundred miles You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles Lord, I'm one, Lord, I'm two, Lord, I'm three, Lord, I'm four Lord, I'm five hundred miles away from home Away from home, away from home, Away from home, away from home Lord, I'm five hundred miles away from home [Instrumental] So, a couple of years later, he suggested doing it for Comic Relief. The meaning of the song is so open and obvious! We had an hour to kill before our lift, so I started playing some chords on the electric piano – and I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) came straight away.

Know what this song is about? interesting and valuable. Interested in the deeper meanings of The Proclaimers songs? I think it’s a bit of everything. appealing. Just throwing that out there now so i'm not accused of hypocrisy.

Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. Then touring. Craig Reid: ‘It’s a love song – but one American DJ thought we were singing about vomiting’, Mon 10 Aug 2015 13.15 EDT Provide song facts, names, places and other worthy info that may Don't hesitate to explain what songwriters and singer wanted to say. The meaning of the song is so open and obvious! It is easily found on the Internet. Available for everyone, funded by readers. I never set out to write a song with universal appeal, but it does mention working, drunkenness and travelling, so pretty much anyone can relate to it. People say they love the song for lots of reasons: its marching beat, the stop-start rhythm, that call and response bit.
that's why leading into the chorus he says i would do this and that BUT i would walk 500 miles and i would walk 500 more JUST TO BE THE MAN WHO WOULD walk 1000 miles to fall down at your door. The man is singing that in all he does, in every aspect of his life, he will either be at the side of the woman he loves and to whom he is singing or, if he cannot be with her, she will be at the center of all he does, always in his thoughts, and he would go to any extreme to be with her (he would walk 500 miles and 500 more). They’ve been our team since we were skint and getting nowhere, but now it takes us half an hour to walk anywhere in the ground because so many people want to say: “Hi!” The band is nowhere near as famous as the song and we never will be. If you miss the train I'm on You will know that I am gone You can hear the whistle blow A hundred miles A hundred miles When they write our obituaries, whether in Scotland or Kazakhstan, they won’t mention much else.

I can’t play guitar, so I played it to Charlie and he changed it to those Buddy Holly-type downstrums. give readers a perfect insight on the song's meaning. It reached number 11 in the UK in 1988, but when it got used in the 1993 film Benny and Joon it went to number three in the States and we ended up on every TV show going. If this song really means something special to you, describe your feelings and thoughts.


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