3,000 Miles Lyrics

Lyric discussion by mymelody22 

Cover art for 3,000 Miles lyrics by Tracy Chapman

I think it's about living in a crappy city, with all the trappings, high crime, white flight, a deflated housing market, and how the writer must be 3000 miles away from where she wants to be. So if the writer were from a nice place in California and moved to say, Detroit, that would about make sense then.