The Flies - 2000 Light Years From Home (The Rolling Stones Cover)

From '' Get Wise ''
Label: Homestead Records – HMS013
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1984

Tracklist
A1 Put All That Behind Me Now
A2 Endless Summer
A3 She'd Be Lost
A4 Jesus Christ
A5 2000 Light Years From Home
B1 All Hung Up
B2 The Only One
B3 Something Wrong With Me
B4 I've Got Something
B5 Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

Lead Vocals, Guitar – Nat Freedberg
Drums – Randall Lee Gibson IV
Bass, Vocals – Jay Parham
Bass – Nat Freedberg (track: B5)
Guitar – Jay Parham (track: B5)
Tambourine – Rob Dimit (track: A2)
Backing Vocals – Rob Dimit (track: B2)

Photography By [Back Cover] – Janine Doucette
Photography By [Front Cover] – Wayne Podworny

Recorded At – Downtown Recorders
Mixed At – Blue Jay Studios

Graphics – Ed Sharpe
Lacquer Cut By – Porky

Producer, Engineer – Rob Dimit

Pressed By – MPO
Published By – Mustard Gas Music
Manufactured By – Dutch East India Trading
Distributed By – Dutch East India Trading

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – LSR Records, Inc.

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"2000 Light Years From Home" is a song from The Rolling Stones' 1967 psychedelic rock album Their Satanic Majesties Request.
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it also appeared as the B-side to the US single "She's a Rainbow", and charted as a single in Germany.

Jagger reportedly wrote the lyrics in Brixton prison following his conviction on drug charges in June 1967.

The working title of the instrumental backing was "Toffee Apple".
The prominent string part is played by Brian Jones on mellotron.
The sound effects at the beginning of the song before the melody starts was played by Brian Jones on a piano.
He played two tracks of several dissonant and unorthodox chords, then one track was reversed.

The number was regularly featured during the Rolling Stones' 1989-90 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tours; until 1997, when "She's a Rainbow" was also added to the band's stage repertoire, it was the only track from Satanic Majesties that the band had performed in concert.

The song is used in the film Men in Black 3.

Notable cover versions

"2000 Light Years from Home" has been covered by:
The Tragically Hip,
The Danse Society,
Grave Digger,
Monster Magnet,
Rachael Yamagata,
Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade,
Cary Grace
and Sky Cries Mary.

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Lyrics

Sun turnin' 'round with graceful motion
We're setting off with soft explosion
Bound for a star with fiery oceans
Yeah it's so very lonely
You're a 100 light years from home.

Freezing red deserts turn to dark
Energy here in every part
Yeah it's so very lonely
You're 600 light years from home.

Yeah it's so very lonely
You're a 1000 light years from home.
Yeah it's so very lonely
You're a 1000 light years from home.

Bell flight 14 you now can land
See you on Aldebaran
Safe on the green desert sand.

Yeah it's so very lonely
You're 2000 light years from home.
Yeah it's so very lonely
You're 2000 light years from home.

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