Miley Cyrus Pays Tribute to Noah Cyrus in New Her Song ‘Thousand Miles’

Happy new-music-Miley day to all those who celebrate! Coinciding with the release of Cyrus’ eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation, the artist also put out a special edition of Backyard Sessions exclusively on Disney+. In the 42-minute concert doc, Cyrus performs and talks about the inspiration behind her songs.

“If you’re close to me and you listen to this album, it sounds like a conversation with me,” Cyrus says in the doc. “There’s subtle shade. There’s, you know, honesty and truth, and there’s some wisdom and some humor. There’s some heaviness and depth. It represents who I am and I feel that the greatest records that I’ve been able to make or the greatest songs that I’ve been able to write they do exactly that. They really connect me and whoever is listening in a way that feels like an intimate honest conversation.”

When talking about her song “Thousand Miles,” which features Brandi Carlile, Cyrus reveals that the lyrics were inspired by the love she has for her little sister Noah Cyrus.

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“When I wrote ‘Thousand Miles’ it started as a song that was very different from the one that is on the album,” she says, tearing up. “I wrote it in 2016 or 2017 and it was after one of my really close friends lost her sister to suicide. I just couldn’t imagine not having my little sister in my life. I wrote this song for her. It was originally called ‘Happy Girl’ and it was, ‘I just wanna see you happy and all I really want is for you to be happy, girl.’”

She continues: “It was about happiness and sisterhood and it just makes me emotional, because now the song is filled with so much joy in the music and it’s become something so far from the sadness that inspired the song.”

Cyrus sings the original lyrics to “Happy Girl” in the doc: “There was a friend of mine. Her name was Darlene, but all of us called her Becky. I don’t know why. I knew she was hurting. But I never thought I’d wake up to that call. Never at all. I remember on that day I promised you the world. But soon realized the world ain’t what you need. Now all I want is simply for you to be happy, girl. Even if that is a world without me.”

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Miley Cyrus – Thousand Miles feat. Brandi Carlile (Audio)

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Full lyrics to “Thousand Miles,” the song inspired by “Happy Girl,” below:

Amazing
I’m driving around town in a beat up old Mercedes
You think I’m crazy
You might be right
But when he smiles, I don’t care about the past
Just like that

I told myself I closed that door, but I’m right back here again
I know half of what I’m saying don’t make no sense, so don’t ask me where I been

I’m not always right
But still I ain’t got time for what went wrong
Where I end up, I don’t really care
I’m out of my mind
But still I’m holding on like a rolling stone
A thousand miles from anywhere

I look in the rear view
I was talking to you before I realize it’s madness
Before the sadness
I pick up the phone and I call back home
But all I get is a dial tone
But instead of hangin up
I hang my head

I told myself I closed that door, but I’m right back here again
I know half of what I’m saying don’t make no sense, so don’t ask me where I been

I’m not always right
But still I ain’t got time for what went wrong
Where I end up, I don’t really care
I’m out of my mind
But still I’m holding on like a rolling stone
A thousand miles from anywhere

I told myself I closed that door, but I’m right back here again
I know half of what I’m saying don’t make no sense, so don’t ask me where I been

I’m not always right
But still I ain’t got time for what went wrong
Where I end up, I don’t really care
I’m out of my mind
But still I’m holding on like a rolling stone
A thousand miles from anywhere

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