Mary Chapin Carpenter: 10,000 Miles Meaning

1. anonymous

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   Dec 21st 2020 !⃝

   This song is about LOVE, LOSS and separation from that one true love: soulmate.
   
   It is also about a journey needfully taken by one who promises to come back, yet knowing full well the distance is so great and too far that the separation will most likely forever exist between them (a false promise). Quite possibly ending in a tragic event as acknowledged, "If I don't return", "rocks melt", "seas burn". Catastrophe!
   
   The Dove sitting in the ivy tree represents the person that is left behind, waiting, longing for their soulmate to return; weeping at the realization they will forever be separated from each other. Their friendship; the deepest possible, only serves to make the profound loss even that much greater and deeper!
   
   
   
   
2. anonymous

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   Jan 23rd 2016 !⃝

   This song is about loss and a love so deep that they are able to feel the loss yet see their love in all that is around them.
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   Feb 10th 2012 !⃝

   It's a lover bidding farewell to his love with a promise to return no matter how far away he goes or how long he has to travel.
   
   So many people are posting about sadness. This song is not about death, sorrow, geese, dying or even flying.
   
   Probably a man going off to war who may travel the incredible distance of 10,000 miles. That was forever back in the 1800's when this was written - long before planes, trains or automobiles.
   
   It's about a promise. A love so deep...

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