Expert: Birgitte S.C. - 7/18/2004

Question
could not click on the hyperlink and when i tried to hand type it in (several times!)- kept staying page cannot be displayed.  please check to see if this is the correct link below


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Followup To
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i just heard this song for the first time in YEARS.  loved it then, but now that i am much older i really listened to the words and am curious as to what they mean - any clue?  

ps - does the rest of her music sound as wonderful and moving as "running up that hill"?
Answer -
Hi,

I leave the explanation of the meaning of the song Running Up That Hill to Kate herself. Read all about it here:

http://children.ofthenight.org/cloudbusting/music/running_up_that_hill.html

Personally I find Running Up That Hill one of her lesser good songs (but most people disagree with me though) so I'd say: the rest is 200 times better! But as a fan I'm quite biased of course ;)

Birgitte

Answer
The meaning of Running Up That Hill? As Kate states in the link I gave you when answering your last question:

"'Running Up That Hill' was one of the first songs that I wrote for the album. It was very nice for me that it was the first single released, I'd always hoped that would be the way. It's very much about a relationship between a man and a woman who are deeply in love and they're so concerned that things could go wrong - they have great insecurity, great fear of the relationship itself. It's really saying if there's a possibility of being able to swap places with each other that they'd understand how the other one felt, that when they were saying things that weren't meant to hurt, that they weren't meant sincerely, that they were just misunderstood. In some ways, I suppose the basic difference between men and women, where if we could swap places in a relationship, we'd understand each other better, but this, of course, is all theoretical anyway.

It seems that the more you get to know a person, the greater the scope there is for misunderstanding. Sometimes you can hurt somebody purely accidentally or be afraid to tell them something because you think they might be hurt when really they'll understand. So what that song is about is making a deal with God to let two people swap place so they'll be able to see things from one another's perspective."

I hope this answers your question.

Birgitte