A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

"A Thousand Miles from Nowhere"
Single by Dwight Yoakam
from the album This Time
B-side	"Something to Talk About"
Released	June 21, 1993
Format	CD single, 7" 45 RPM
Recorded	1993
Genre	Country
Length	4:27
Label	Reprise 18528
Writer(s)	Dwight Yoakam
Producer	Pete Anderson
Dwight Yoakam singles chronology
"Ain't That Lonely Yet" (1993) "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" (1993) "Fast as You" (1993)

"A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" is the title of a song written and recorded by country music artist Dwight Yoakam. It was released in June 1993 as the second single from his 1993 album This Time. Like his previous single, this song peaked at #2 in the United States and at #3 in Canada.^[1]

Content

The song's narrator has left a former lover, and he is now a thousand miles from nowhere, and time doesn't matter to him, and there's no place that he'd rather be. His former lover treated him cruelly.

Music video

The music video was directed by Dwight Yoakam with the help of Carolyn Mayer (according to some sources). It features Yoakam riding on a train across various places, and is shown in two frames showing mostly different views of the train and Yoakam.

Chart performance

"A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" debuted at number 72 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of June 26, 1993.

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