The met and started working on the arrangements of the song so that they added more transitions and time signatures. Vanessa Carlton sent the demo to various producers, including Ron Fair, from A&M Records. She started writing it at her parent's house, and encouraged by her mother and by a record producer to whom she presented a part of it, she recorded a demo tape a few years later. A thousand miles walk is just an initiated journey of our expectations.Ī combination of pop and piano rock, "A Thousand Years" was released on February 12th, 2002, while the recording was done in 2000. The song's text reveals how important our relationships are. Vanessa used verbs of feeling such as I need, I miss, I don't belong, and, underlines the significance of the precious memories in our lives. Her intentions were to describe a very strong attachment towards somebody and the incapacity of changing anything. The lyrics were wrote by the singer, and, as she recalls they came in a moment of grief, when her grandfather had died. The choice of the title born some disagreements but Fair's nephew best bet gained the upper hand.įair made adjustments to instrumental opening and repeated the chorus in his own manner putting his signature over the song and also wrote, conducted and recorded the orchestra session. Carlton took a try at several producers and she finally has been accepted by Ron Fair. It first appeared on the album Be Not Nobody. The song was written in the summer of 1998 at her parents' house in Philadelphia. The pop ballad features piano sections as well as string orchestral arrangements. "A Thousand Miles" was released as a CD Single by Vanessa Carlton.