Lyrics to
Nothing Like A Hundred Miles

This version of Nothing Like A Hundred Miles was released by James Taylor in 1976.

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I have tried to forget about you and all the plans that we had planned.
Yes, and I’m bound to leave this town, I don’t care where I may land.

If what they’re telling me is true, you have found somebody new to love you.
There ain’t but one thing I can do, baby,
to save my heart from being broken in two by you, baby, I’m moving through.

There’s nothing like a hundred miles between me and trouble in my mind.
There’s nothing like a hundred miles, show me the yellow line.
There’s nothing like a hundred miles when I’m only passing through.
There’s nothing like a hundred miles to make me forget about you, forget about you.

Now don’t we like our found farewells.
And don’t we like to keep our good-byes nice and clean.
You may wish I’d go to hell while you tell me what a pleasure it’s been,
so long, baby, I’m moving on.

There’s nothing like a hundred miles between me and trouble in mind.
There’s nothing like a hundred miles, show me the yellow line.
There’s nothing like a hundred miles when I’m only passing through.
There’s nothing like a hundred miles to make me forget about you, forget about you.

I have tried to forget about you. And baby, I have failed.
But just as long as I stay in Houston, I will.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Nothing Like A Hundred Miles, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by James Taylor. Some of the lyrics to Nothing Like A Hundred Miles have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only James Taylor and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Nothing Like A Hundred Miles if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Nothing Like A Hundred Miles" means the words set to the music of Nothing Like A Hundred Miles, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Nothing Like A Hundred Miles and the lyrics to Nothing Like A Hundred Miles are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to Nothing Like A Hundred Miles, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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