Contextual Analysis of "a thousand miles away" in Lyrics

while i was waiting for the strand to break

somehow we made it home

while i was waiting for the strand to break

somehow we made it home

i hear you

i feel you close

i never find a place where i can stay

thousand miles away

start

i can feel you breathing down my neck

tell the world here we are

we've traveled to

sweet embrace

your arms a sweet

you did the right thing

out of trace and in another time

we've only got ourselves to blame. it easy to be bold and brave

its easy to pontificate

we'll leave the sound of a train not running

i don't want to risk my freedom

waiting for a train

sleeping in the rain. i walked up to a brakeman