Untitled

Miles Between Dreams”

Key: D Minor

Tempo: ~82 BPM

Feel: Ambient alt-rock → builds into emotional, anthemic chorus

Style reference: Nothing But Thieves × The 1975

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🎹 Intro (ambient guitar + pads)

(D minor progression, lots of reverb)

Chords: Dm – Bb – F – C

Soft vocal / almost whispered:

Breathing in a different sky…

Same old dreams, just passing by…

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Chords: Dm – Bb – F – C

City lights blur through a cracked windshield

Different sky but the same damn feel

Dust in the air, boots on the floor

Every sunrise just looks like before

Phone screen glowing in the dead of night

Your name flickers like a fading light

I trace your voice through static lines

But it don’t quite reach these miles of mine

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[Pre-Chorus] (build with drums entering)

Chords: Bb – C – Dm

I keep telling myself this won’t be forever

Just one more season, just one more endeavor

But time don’t slow, it don’t rewind

It just keeps pulling me out of your life

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[Chorus] (wide, emotional, full band)

Chords: F – C – Dm – Bb

There’s miles between dreams and the life I know

Every road I take just takes me further from home

I’m building a future I can’t even see

For the ones that still believe in me

And I swear I feel you in the midnight air

In every silence, yeah you’re still there

But dreams don’t wait and they don’t come cheap

So I chase them alone while the whole world sleeps

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🎸 Post-Chorus Hook (guitar lead / vocal echo)

Chords: Dm – Bb – F – C

Ohhh… miles away…

Still hearing everything you say…

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(slightly fuller instrumentation)

Chords: Dm – Bb – F – C

Different faces but the same routine

Concrete days and fluorescent dreams

Laughter echoes from a distant past

Like a life I lived that didn’t last

I miss the noise of a crowded room

Now it’s just machines and a quiet gloom

Every dollar earned feels twice as cold

When there’s no one here to share the gold

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[Pre-Chorus] (more intensity)

Chords: Bb – C – Dm

And I know I said I’d make it right

Turn these long days into better nights

But the cost keeps rising every mile I go

And I’m losing more than I show

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[Chorus] (bigger, layered vocals)

Chords: F – C – Dm – Bb

There’s miles between dreams and the life I know

Every road I take just takes me further from home

I’m building a future I can’t even see

For the ones that still believe in me

And I swear I feel you in the midnight air

In every silence, yeah you’re still there

But dreams don’t wait and they don’t come cheap

So I chase them alone while the whole world sleeps

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[Bridge] (drop → build, emotional peak)

Chords (start stripped): Dm – Bb

Build into: F – C – Dm – Bb

If I close my eyes, I’m back in your arms

No empty rooms, no distance, no scars

Just laughter loud and time standing still

Before I traded it all for will

(build drums + guitars)

And I wonder now, when I finally arrive

Will I still be the man you knew back then alive?

Or just a ghost with a name you call

Who built it all… but lost it all

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🔥 Final Chorus (bigg