Contextual Analysis of "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

the shadows of the ever growing skylines

from grafton street and dublin bay

i never find a place where i can stay

thousand miles away

and i'm five years ago

do i have time? a man of my calibre?

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

i'm feeling your shine

i'm feeling your shine

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