2000 Light Years From Home
Rolling Stones - The Lyrics
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We're setting off with soft explosion
Bound for a star with fiery oceans
It's so very lonely, you're a hundred light years from home
Freezing red deserts turn to dark
Energy here in every part
It's so very lonely, you're six hundred light years from home
It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home
It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home
Bell flight fourteen you now can land
Seen you on Aldebaran, safe on the green desert sand
It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home
It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home
"The 2000 Light Years from Home" by the Rolling Stones is a psych-rock ballad that takes listeners on a journey through space. The song conjures up images of a spacecraft floating through the galaxies, far from home. The lyrics narrate the experience of space explorers who are traveling through space and getting further away from their home planet. The song speaks of the isolation and loneliness that comes with being so far away from one's loved ones and the planet Earth, which we all call home.
The first verse speaks of the spacecraft taking off from Earth, as the sun turns around with graceful motion, and the spacecraft sets off with soft explosions. The spacecraft is bound for a star with fiery oceans, but the journey is lonely, and the travelers are 100, 600, and a thousand light-years from home. The second verse speaks of the freezing, red desert turning to dark, and energy being evident in every part of it. The further the spacecraft travels, the more desperate and lonely the space explorers become, as they are thousands of light-years away from home.
The chorus of the song speaks of the space travelers' pleas for someone to hear them, calling to a distant Bell Flight Fourteen, which will safely land them on Aldebaran's green desert sand. However, despite the hope of contact, the loneliness of being so far from home remains, and the space explorers are two thousand light-years away.
Line by Line Meaning
Sun turnin' 'round with graceful motion
The sun is revolving beautifully and peacefully in space
We're setting off with soft explosion
We're leaving Earth gently and calmly
Bound for a star with fiery oceans
We're headed towards a star with extremely hot and active oceans
It's so very lonely, you're a hundred light years from home
Being one hundred light years away from home is incredibly isolating and lonely
Freezing red deserts turn to dark
Cold, red deserts fade into darkness
Energy here in every part
There is energy present everywhere in space
It's so very lonely, you're six hundred light years from home
Being six hundred light years away from home is extremely lonely
It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home
Being one thousand light years away from home is incredibly lonely
Bell flight fourteen you now can land
Bell flight fourteen can successfully land
Seen you on Aldebaran, safe on the green desert sand
Watched you safely land on the green desert sand in Aldebaran
It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home
Being two thousand light years away from home is extremely lonely
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Abkco Music Inc.
Written by: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
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@williamronan4058
A brilliant composition on so many levels. Writing, arrangements, lyrically. And sonically it was "light years" ahead. The textures, sound effects, guitar sound, brilliant use of the mellotron. For that we can thank Brian Jones.
@annoyingbstard9407
Paul McCartney actually. Jones pressed the buttons after Paul sampled the sounds and showed him how to use it.
@one4320
But only after Tiny Tim showed Paul how to sample the sounds.
And I'm pretty sure it was Snoop Dog what showed TT.
@realitychallenged4488
Rolls eyes and jerkss awf
@zcam1969
the stones had so many songs out at that time ,66,68 and this song didnt get the respect
@blib3786
@Annoying B'stard It's literally just a factory mellotron tape bank, wtf are you talking about?
@supersonicnomad8437
Their Satanic Majesty's Request is without question one of the most underrated and misunderstood albums of all time. Truly a legendary top tier masterwork of psychedelic rock 'n roll excess in high level cerebral doses at it's uttermost purest and fitnest form.
S. Nomad
Saturday, 9/12/20, 3:38am
@randallkennedy2066
You must be joking.1 great song.Rest is junk.
@jimmyredd
@Randall Kennedy I don't think someone who signs and dates their YouTube posts has the capacity for joking.
@markgore9202
@Randall Kennedy bunk