It was released in December 1983 and charted at number 15 in the UK it has since been covered by Coldplay, Natalie Imbruglia and KT Tunstall (so not Hanson this time, who seem to have covered every other Christmas song known to man). As always, Hynde’s voice steals the show and lends the song its beauty. He's gone two thousand miles It's very far The snow is falling down Gets colder day by day I miss you The children will sing He'll be back at Christmas time In these frozen and silent nights Sometimes in a dream you appear Outside under the purple sky Diamonds in the snow sparkle. It turns out that the song isn’t actually about a distant lover at all, but about the band’s guitar player, who had died in 1982 due to drug abuse. Letra PRETENDERS 2000 MILES - CHRISTMAS ROCKS - NAVIDAD. Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer.

It’s also fairly simple in terms of structure, with the guitar repeating in circles in the background, but I think that’s what allows the emotion to come to the fore. Possibly not their finest work in terms of lyrics (‘2000 miles is very far through the snow’ – er yes, indeed it is) the song nevertheless has a heartfelt quality to it that really shines through. Today’s calendar selection seems, at first listen, to be a song about two lovers separated by a distance of 2000 rather snowy miles.

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