Kurt Weill
Thousands of Miles
[STEPHEN, spoken]
There is a great gulf between people, between husband and wife, between parents and child. But when there is love, then distance doesn't matter at all, distance or silence or years. 

(sung)
How many miles to the heart of a child?
Thousands of miles, thousands of miles
When he lay on your breast, he looked up and smiled
Across tens of thousands, thousands of miles

Each lives alone in a world of dark
Crossing the skies in a lonely arc
Save when lovе leaps out like a leaping spark
Ovеr thousands, thousands of miles

Not miles or walls or length of days
Nor the cold doubt of midnight can hold us apart
For swifter than wings of the morning
The pathways of the heart

How many miles to the heart of a son?
Thousands of miles, thousands of miles
Farther off than the rails or the roadways run
Across tens of thousands, thousands of miles

The lines on the map stretch far and thin
To the streets and days that close him in
But then as of old he turns 'round to grin
Over thousands, thousands of miles
Not miles or walls or length of days
Nor the cold doubt of midnight can hold us apart
For swifter than wings of the morning
The pathways of the heart
Over tens of thousands of miles