Miles Away / The Truth Is

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Miles Away / The Truth Is
Song	Miles Away / The Truth Is
By	Depeche Mode
Songwriter	Dave Gahan Christian Eigner Andrew Phillpott
Working title	Miles Away
Produced by	Ben Hillier
Recorded at	Sound Design (Santa Barbara) Chung King (New York)
Length (mm:ss)	4:14
Tempo	118 BPM
Time signature	4 4
Key	D♭ Major
Programmed by	Luke Smith
Original programming	Christian Eigner Andrew Phillpott
Engineered by	Ferg Peterkin
Engineering assistance	Josh Garcia Jesse Gladstone Anthony Palazzole
Pre-production assistance	Sie Medway-Smith
Mastered by	Stephen Marcussen
Art direction	Anton Corbijn
Design	ShaughnessyWorks Tea Design
Recorded	May - December, 2008
Originally released	17 April 2009
Live performances as Depeche Mode	67 times *
Total live performances	67 times *

"Miles Away / The Truth Is" is a song from the 2009 album Sounds Of The Universe by Depeche Mode.

Notes

Dave Gahan told Interia.pl (translated from Polish):

"This song is about someone whose thoughts are somewhere far away. About someone who hides behind a facade of a mask he has put on. And tries to hide it. This song about my friend. I knew that when I was with him and said something to him, he was actually mentally absent. Even though he tried to convince me that he was not. 'Miles Away / The Truth Is' is not entirely about drugs, but they are always present somewhere in the songs. All my life, I tried to escape from myself. Also with drugs. Until it finally became clear to me that it was not bad to be myself. This song was made quite quickly. When I wrote the lyrics of this song, the vocal part was circling in my head. This song is inspired by my friend. In the studio, Martin played a fantastic guitar part around it, with which we built the rest of the song, as was the case with 'Come Back'. We also recorded great vocal parts - Martin stepped in and sang in the background. 'Miles Away' is a dirty, nasty, grinding song. It reminds me a bit of a modern version of 'The Gimme Shelter' by The Rolling Stones. It has something of that in it."

Dave Gahan told The Guardian in 2009:

"Martin does [change song titles]. He's very particular about his song titles. At the last minute he'll change the title and he worries I think if there's another song with the same name. I imagine him Googling it. For instance Miles Away/The Truth Is on this album was just Miles Away. Then Martin said, 'You know there's a Madonna song called Miles Away?' So it was changed."

Lyrics

Miles Away / The Truth Is

It's one of those conversations we've, we've had them before

The ones that leave you empty and wanting for more

Your eyes they tell me something that I understand

Your eyes they hold the truth and the truth is

You're miles away

Excuse me for my hesitation I've, I've met you before

Your face seems so familiar and longing for more

Your eyes they tell me something that I understand

Your eyes they hold the truth and the truth is

You're miles away

With all your superstitions and empty lines

I could be just like you

Withdrawn but alive

Life it has it's limitations we all have our needs

Love could be the only answer it lies underneath

Your eyes they tell me something that I understand

Your eyes they hold the truth and the truth is

You're miles away

Songwriter: Dave Gahan, Christian Eigner, Andrew Phillpott
Publishing Information: ©2009 Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd licensed by JJSR Productions Inc. All rights reserved.

Live performances

Main article: Available recordings of "Miles Away / The Truth Is"

Main article: List of dates where "Miles Away / The Truth Is" was played