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Running Up That Hill Lyrics
If I only could, I'd be running up that hill.
If I only could, I'd be running up that hill. It doesn't hurt me. Do you want to feel how it feels? Do you want to know that it doesn't hurt me? Do you want to hear about the deal that I'm making? You, it's you and me. And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, And I'd get him to swap our places, Be running up that road, Be running up that hill, Be running up that building. If I only could, oh... You don't want to hurt me, But see how deep the bullet lies. Unaware I'm tearing you asunder. Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts. Is there so much hate for the ones we love? Tell me, we both matter, don't we? You, it's you and me. It's you and me won't be unhappy. And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, And I'd get him to swap our places, Be running up that road, Be running up that hill, Be running up that building, Say, if I only could, oh... You, It's you and me, It's you and me won't be unhappy. "C'mon, baby, c'mon darling, Let me steal this moment from you now. C'mon, angel, c'mon, c'mon, darling, Let's exchange the experience, oh..." And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, And I'd get him to swap our places, Be running up that road, Be running up that hill, With no problems. And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, And I'd get him to swap our places, Be running up that road, Be running up that hill, With no problems. And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, And I'd get him to swap our places, Be running up that road, Be running up that hill, With no problems. If I only could Be running up that hill With no problems... "If I only could, I'd be running up that hill. If I only could, I'd be running up that hill." |
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14 hr 59 min ago
Maybe it's about a bull-dikey-ish woman whose husband fell in love with a feminine woman. She wants to "get to the bottom" of the feminine woman to see if she can figure out just WHY her husband loves her. Maybe she will try to take better care of herself now that her husband betrayed her and made her feel inadequate. She wants the woman her husband loves to "pay" for the trauma that she caused in their lives.
Maybe it is about a hurt, depressed man who fell in love with the feminine woman. (This man happened to be the masculine woman's husband.) He wants to exchange the experience. He wants to give the woman he fell in love with some of his pain and sadness. She is a happy person and he would like to take on some of her happiness, because he has gone through hell over this experience. (He had no clue that she already had, too.)
Maybe it is about another guy, as well. A friend to this husband guy. He is simply curious and wants to see why the woman loved his friend. He wants to stand in his friend's shoes to see what it would have been like to have this woman love him. He wants to kick a bit of ass for the helluvit.
The scorned woman, her husband and the friend (and many others) made a deal w/each other to go behind the scenes to get out some of their emotions and hear some of hers. They each had their own reasons for "running up that hill".
I know this could be wayyy off. IDK. Just some thoughts. I'm so random sometimes!
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11-19-2009
i met a guy and fell in love........after dating for awhile he told me he was gay. yes, that hurt me and messed up my world.
but by then i had met his family and i understood why he felt the need to appear to be straight. they were so.....just ug........they would never accept that he was gay. they were the most homophobic people i ever met.
for him it was a huge, huge hill, mountain, whatever to climb. with my defiant and confident personality for me it would have been "no problem" to stand up to a condemning family.
i hate that he felt he had to lie to me and present us as having a hetero relationship with his family, but had i been in his place i would have climbed that hill and accepted the fact that they would disown me.
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11-05-2009
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10-07-2009
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09-25-2009
I think I had a 5 month cyber-affair (to the day) with Kate Bush. I know my ex-bf-bf was with me at least part of the time. He and I shared something special in real life. Then we shared some crazy stuff in the fantasy land of "Cyberville". On our journey there were Kings, Queens, Sultans, Wolf-Dogs, Ogres, Eunichs, Children, Cats, Mice, Midgets and Babies and much, much more. It was a freakin' fairytale from hell! Oh, it wasn't all bad. Don't get me wrong. We had lots of fun part of the time. But, what I'll always remember about my friendship with him are the good parts from real life. We had our moments, pal.
And I'll always remember the music. XOXO
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08-26-2009
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05-10-2009
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05-10-2009
a lot of substance and openness to your relationship, which unfortunately
cannot be said of the real-life drama I personally relate to that specific song.
And of course, although the video has quite a pessimistic streak
to it (both get drawn apart by their masked duplicates - the social circumstances?, their multi-splintered egos?), I think there is still some hopeful optimism and desire in those lyrics (which, especially alongside the tender music, never quite appeared as some kind of a revenge anthem to me, as others here view it). So there's really much space in this song for a wide range of different life experiences - as yours and mine -to be connected with it, despite its seemingly simple lyrics. I'd say that's exactly what makes a song truly great...
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05-09-2009
how many differing perspectives exist on a song which has always had a unique
and single meaning for me. As I related the song closely to a personal life
experience of me, my interpretation may seem somewhat odd, but, well, this
is how I understand it:
Contrary to the way many others see it, the question of wrongdoing or abuse solely of
the partner adressed is not so much in focus for me. For me it's about a troubled
love affair (the "hill"), in which the adressed partner isn't really certain about Kate's personas
feelings towards him. It may be he's a lover, when she's really in a relationship with someone
else or isn't really able to have a relationship, is maybe sleeping with other
partners, which makes the other one question her love. He may try to act violently or insult her
to push her to show reactions finally, but it doesn't really work (my meaning for the first "It doesn't hurt me"), as she has a better understanding of the situation and of her true, but not unconditional feelings towards him. So she tells him of her "deal with god", which is really about those two, and not any other one involved, because at her heart, she wants that they both "matter", that the love may become true and serious. If they would be able to swap perspectives, his doubt and misunderstandings might dissolve, she might take his suffering on herself, but it's not possible (maybe just because he's a man and men and women can't understand each other, their way of experiencing and managing sex and feelings is just too different). He might want to see that his actions don't mean anything to her, he wants to see she isn't hurt in any form, even if he acts appallingly, to finally get rid of the troubled love affair (when really at his heart, he "doesn't want to hurt her", it's just a consequence of the situation he has to act like this), but when she tells him "see how deep the bullet lies", it becomes clear how important the relationship really is for her. She'd love to run up that hill, go all the way with him, but it is somehow not possible at the moment, perhaps because of personal or social problems - it must remain a dream. So both remain behind their masks, entangled in their little games and strategies on the surface. He keeps on hurting her, while she is tearing him "asunder" unintentionally by her behaviour (so it's really mutual abuse). All she can do is to sing about this utopia, both "running up that hill", overcoming their problems, both of them becoming happy, while it is not possible in realy life. Just for this single moment, for the emotion expressed in this song, she hopes she can somehow tear him and herself out of all the inauthenticity between them ("steal the moment") and reach some kind of unity.
I know Kate Bush interprets the song as some kind of a gender thing now, but perhaps that's just some kind of "cool" and modern re-interpretation of it to avoid always being seen as this classical Emily Bronté/Wuthering Heights type of lady. But for me the song is really about the natural wishes of perfection, going all the way with love and its demands, which eventually so often gets shattered because of our egocentrical and contradictional acting in these matters.
05-23-2009
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05-09-2009
You suggest the "Kate Bush partner"/me shouldn't be
too pessimistic and throw away things, when there's still
hope or possibilities to try. You're absolutely right, but
situations can get so messed up in the end you aren't able
to grasp them mentally and emotionally anymore and you just HAVE
to give up - just no more energy left to see things positively.
(See, it's been nine years ago.)
If you somehow could relate to my song interpretation and see your
own story in it - I wrote an overtly long text, but I could have
just reduced it to one term: TRUST. I think that's the hidden main
theme of this song. Sometimes people are really attracted to each other,
even feel they're meant for each other. But, perhaps because of this
man/woman - difference, or just because they're different types of characters
and tempers, have other ways of dealing with sex and love affairs,
they don't find a way to establish trust in each other. This leads to the
"hate for the ones we love", Kate Bush was referring to, I think. Maybe
you and your lover both made mistakes concerning this. The other point
of the song is that it remains just a beautiful dream we could just move into each
others heads and just feel and know that our partners really care for us.
That's something you have to actively communicate through actions and words.
Back then, it didn't work for me. My partner somehow thought she would be "losing ground" if she would just try to tell me what's really going on inside of her. She preferred to leave me "in the grey" and we both wasted time with attempting to
control each other with psychological games. Definitely wrong, but that's the way things went... (but I'm getting off-topic now)
05-09-2009
You might not have any idea as to why I am saying all of this to you. But, maybe you know... I have shi* for brains!
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04-25-2009
05-11-2009
I read an interpretation of this song recently and it made me realize just how different men and women are. While it is his unique interpretation of this song, it made me sad. Anger, pessimism and negativity certainly do not come naturally to me, but I might have to venture into their foreign territory to explain my perspective. Forgive me if I do.
This song, "Running Up That Hill" reminds me of "Remember The Mountain Bed" as both are about love affairs. For me, I want to remember what it is I adored about the one and only man I have ever had a love "affair" with. (I have never had a sexual affair. I have never been "unfaithful" in that department.) I want to cling to what was so special and amazing about him and our love. When you fall in love with someone, another life is created in your head. Have you ever heard that 1+1=3? Well, that is what happened to me. So when it is ending you grieve that loss.
I tried my best to relay my feelings about what was clearly going on between us. It was undeniable what was happening. And for years! It was incredibly powerful and consuming for me. I tried to convey my true, honest feelings to him in words (not ONLY by the obvious force that was between us physically, mentally and emotionally). With words, he couldn't reciprocate. He seemed verbally passive when it came to expressing any emotions or feelings he was clearly experiencing regarding our situation. But, the love remained. It kept growing and morphing. I'd try to express my feelings and twice he (indirectly, which felt like holy hell) told me to stop feeling what I am feeling. How does a person respond to that? How does that help to create great trust between us? Even though he was passive and hurt me, I kept on loving him. There was always this connection and force between us even though he was trying to kill it. On and on it went for years. How could I establish any openness when I had tried and been beaten down? We were both going through a psychological trauma over it and we did it in our different ways.
To end it, he sent me an ultimate message, in order to find out my true feelings (as if he didn't know!). It was a cruel test, I guess. I answered as honestly as I could. (Even though, again, it was sent in an indirect way. Talk of TRUST! For me to have the faith to answer as clearly as I could, to such a message shows great trust- and foolishness.) I wonder if I "passed" his test. I wonder if he was floored by the fact that I would have pretty much done most anything for him. I would have made great sacrifices for our love. BUT, the message was a brutal joke. (Now I understand the "hate for the ones we love" lyrics from this song.) Still, I forgive him. It was far and away the cruelest thing anyone has done to me, but I choose to think he did it out of desperation and love. He is weary and he needed to hear the truth.
So, on we'll go with our lives. I'll do my best to put all of this baggage behind me. If it was a love void of trust, substance and openness, for my role I am sorry. I wish it would have been different. I wish there were no problems and we could have run up that hill.
I will always remember the beautiful feelings he gave me. It was love. Real love.
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01-16-2009
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10-27-2008
This version in NOT better than Kate Bush's Original.
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09-24-2008
underlying love interpretation there is another one showing (not knowing the idiom I'll say)
crave for Knowing. I hope.
Person challenges God to swap places so that He can see what a mess He made to create world and life (like her life)
Person accuses God He has no interest in his 'Work of Art' and ironizie that if she herself was God she'd 'be running up that hill, road, building with no problems (a needleworker God)' as He doesn't care about what His embroidery looks like.
And she loses. Admits if God swapped places with her He'd 'be running up that hill'.
Whatever God is, at the and persona is praying helplessly
"If I only could, I'd be running up that hill.
If I only could, I'd be running up that hill."
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08-23-2008
It has been more than thirty years since Kate Bush began her career. Will anyone even remember Placebo in thirty years?
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08-23-2008
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08-18-2008
so basically what the other person said, but in addition i'd say that the running up all those places is like her getting closer and closer to climax..?
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02-15-2008
-kate bush
i found that on wikipedia...not sure how valid that is but it sounds reasonable.
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02-13-2008
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02-12-2008
I think it means that the speaker (person A) says "it doesn't hurt me" because they are understanding more how the other person (person B) feels and sees B doesn't mean to hurt them even though it might have hurt before they could see what's really going on. B might have been harsh on A and said things they didn't mean, or maybe they just let their relationship drift.
B probably is going through a bad time and isn't telling A about it but A understands and wants to help but can't because B won't open up. So A thinks that swapping places might be the best way to deal with things because A can deal with those things better as their personality traits allow them that.
There's a gap forming in A and B's relationship because of the secrets and the unawareness of each other's lives. This leads to hating each other even though they really love each other. Why else would they be together?
B is unaware of anything going on in A's mind so A wants to swap so B could open their eyes and see what's really going on and that their secrets won't keep forever. If only A could run up that hill for B?
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02-04-2008
if you want another modern take on this awesome song, much smoother than kate bush or placebo version
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01-11-2008
"It doesn't hurt me." - She is lying to herself
"Do you want to feel how it feels?" - She is thinking about her lover.
"Do you want to know that it doesn't hurt me?" - Lying to him now
"Do you want to hear about the deal that I'm making?" - She is willing to put up with abuse for love.
"You, it's you and me." - Her commitment
Then the chorus:
"I'd make a deal with God, And I'd get him to swap our places," - She wants him in her shoes, hoping he will stop the abuse.
"Be running up that road, Be running up that hill, With no problems. " - Life would be better then.
Always been my take on the song. Especially considering the context. Another song released that very same year is Til Tuesdays' "Voices Carry" (very obviously about abuse.)
Relational abuse was a hot topic at this time and many artists (especially women) were voicing against it.
Any thoughts?
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11-23-2007
Unfulfilled, her 'If I only could' continues to torment Heathcliff... amidst the cries of her own tormented spirit...
Cathy: 'I am Heathcliff! ... So don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable...'
Heathcliff: 'Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! ... I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!'
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11-22-2007
One final thought... Is RUTH "Wuthering Heights Revisited"? ... Maybe RUTH is Cathy's ruthless, dual nature teasing Heathcliff! ... It has the perverse cruelty, the tormented passion, the defiant obsession, the torturous disregard, and the eternal love for the Moors...
'It doesn't hurt me' because life without Heathcliff and the Moors is no life! ... The defiant 'you and me won't be unhappy' ... The wicked 'tearing you asunder' ... The eternal longing to 'be running up that hill' ...
Her shocking deal even disturbs the dead, unleashing ghostly, purgatorial voices! ... Yes, Hate and Love tore them both asunder... And if she only could, Cathy would have made such a spiteful deal for her beloved moors! ... And he would have obliged her! ... But, as Nelly remarked: "The greatest punishment we could invent for her, was to keep her separate from him" ... So 'with no problems'? Even God couldn't manage that!
Cathy: 'I wish I could hold you,' she continued, bitterly, 'till we were both dead! I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do!'
Heathcliff: ''WHY did you despise me? WHY did you betray your own heart, Cathy? ...nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, YOU, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart - YOU have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine!'
KATE BUSH is p.h.e.n.o.m.e.n.a.l ... :o)
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11-22-2007
- The desire to give up fame doesn't hurt me... So you can try it, with all its personal limitations... Fans/media attack privacy and unintentionally wound... Love-Hate relationship with press... etc...
"I think you're all completely mad! —and thank you very much..." - KB to her fans!
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11-22-2007
- marching War Drums...
- Heroism, Pride, Nationalism, reassurance, illusion Vs Realism, resignation, fear, coping, aloneness...
- Brave smiles and nervous hearts...
- Battlefield, vilification of enemy, way cry, man's inhumanity to man, infantry sent to meaningless frontline slaughter...
(see Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches')
- Horror of war and the intense desire to fly, run, drive, get away from the experience...
- The Dream Deal - swapping places with anything or anyone... father-son, soldier-nature, soldier-you, now-then...
(...and Kate deals with war in Pull Out The Pin, Army Dreamers...)
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11-21-2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVQXJQREXZg
- soldiers/family/gvt/battlefield/'enemies'/futility/WAR...
A powerful interpretation...
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