Running Up That Hill

@habalulu Deal with God is a WAY better title.

@habalulu I prefer the title "Running Up That Hill" just because it conveys a strong meaning in my heart and sets the aesthetic for the entire song, for me.

i like your thoughts for sure, but i think it is two people in love that have been starring at e.other for a long time but dont want to admit to one another that they love e.other, because of fear or because they have been hurt alot and arent totally sure its mutual... "It doesn't hurt me. You wanna feel how it feels? You wanna know, know that it doesn't hurt me? You wanna hear about the deal I'm making? You (be running up that hill) You and me (be running up that hill)" esspecially the 'you and me (be running up that hill)'

further bringing me to this idea is "And get him to swap our places... If I only could, oh..." so the other could see how much the she loves him and she how much he loves her, but more to that it is that its general, in the lyrics its not mentioned she loves him, he loves her, its com'n baby, you, you and me...

then there is the "You don't want to hurt me, But see how deep the bullet lies. Unaware that I'm tearing you asunder. There is thunder in our hearts, baby. So much hate for the ones we love? Tell me, we both matter, don't we?"

"you not wanting to hurt me, but see how deep the bullet lies." kinda says to me the other loves her but doesnt want her to hurt if she does love him back, so hes trying to spare her if it doesnt last and he stays unhappy

"Unaware that I'm tearing you asunder." says that she sorta wonders if he loves her but isnt ready or able to make the first move or move at all.

"There is thunder in our hearts, baby. So much hate for the ones we love? Tell me, we both matter, don't we?" is like saying we are amazing together we make thunder (and with thunder, lightening), but they hate it so much that they arent together and they both love e.other and tell me we both matter part is tell me you love me and i will tell you, that i love you, our love matters...

"'C'mon, baby, c'mon, 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...'"

her wanting him to tell her the truth... c'mon tell me... let me steal your love, lets exchange our love

"And if I only could, Make a deal with God, And 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.'"

and if i only could tell you... make a deal with god, so you may see and i may see, and we both no longer have fear... be running up that road together, be running up that hill together, starting our life... with no problems, no fear, no more pain, only our love...

@NewAger no

I always wished she would have changed the God pronoun to "she" for some reason, even if it constituted some small or perhaps naive instance of sociopolitical and/or religious rebellion. I really dig your interpretation.

@Rod962 @paedophageeplayground
2nd class citizens? Regarding the Church of Scie... whoops, Church of Feminism, It will never cease to fill me with a sense of wry amusement similar to how I feel about other known types of mind-viruses, better known as religion aka bronze-age sheepherder fairytales. A void where knowledge of history is meant to be but instead tightly stuffed with victimization fibers.

"But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed." ~ Warren Farrell

FREE QUICK HISTORY & SOCIOLOGY LESSON [excerpt]
"Perhaps the art that best reflects life is film. In the chapter on man-bashing, I review the way films bashing men reflect our culture. But 1998 did at least see two films that were masterpieces in their empathetic representation of the male experience: Saving Private Ryan and Life is Beautiful. I review them on my website but suffice it to say here that part of their significance is that they were both commercial and critical successes, representing, therefore, holes in the Lace Curtain.
Unfortunately, these films were more the exception than the rule among recent films. Titanic is the rule. No reality-based film had a greater opportunity to allow the world a clearer look at men’s willingness to sacrifice their lives for women and children than Titanic, on which men died more than women at a rate of more than 9 to 1. While we know Titanic had a fictionalized storyline, it developed a reputation for being meticulously researched with many characters based on reality. In some ways that was true. But one of the most fascinating stories behind the movie is the story revealed by what is and is not fiction. When we uncover how we fictionalize reality, we discover ourselves. And we also discover the methods used by the Lace Curtain to fictionalize reality. (Which is what distinguishes this analysis from the previous chapter’s look at man bashing in films.) So welcome aboard.
Titanic Fiction: A woman saves a man at the repeated risk of her life.
Titanic Fact: There is no record of a woman risking her life to save an adult man, no less repeatedly.
Titanic Fiction: Men in charge decided to lock third-class (steerage) passengers below the decks.
Titanic Fact: Public Record Office documents in London show that this never happened—in fact, a higher percentage of men from second-class died than from third class (92 percent vs. 88 percent), and 55 percent of the third-class women lived, which would not have been possible had they been locked below.
Titanic Fiction: Being poor made one even more disposable than being a man.
Titanic Fact: Being a man and being poor both increased disposability, but being a man increased it significantly more than being poor. First-class men were 22 times more likely to die (66 percent vs. 3 percent) than first-class women. The richest men were significantly more likely to die than the poorest women.
Theoretically, there were three classes on the Titanic. Practically, though, men were more likely to die than the citizens of the first, second, or third class. In reality, the men were the invisible fourth-class citizens. Here is the breakdown by class and sex.
“Titanic and the Invisible Fourth Class” Class: % of men dying and % of women dying.
1st class: M: 66% W: 3%
2nd class: M: 92% W: 16%
3rd class: M: 88% W: 45%
Finally, the multiple scenes of men as cowards (“Men first! Leave the women and children behind") negates the reality, especially regarding First Officer William Murdoch, who was portrayed in the film as taking a bribe, shooting a third-class passenger, and then killing himself. In real life, “Murdoch behaved heroically, sacrificing his life after laboring frantically to save others." Twentieth Century Fox did apologize for their distortion, but all the scenes of his corruption and cowardice remain.
In brief, the mandate: of masculinity, to be more disposable than a third-class citizen, was diluted by three methods, all fiction: (1) Showing a woman also willing to die to save a man; (2) Turning a heroic man (William Murdoch) into a coward and killer, and (3) Sensationalizing class disposability (via the lockout scene and the portrayal of Murdoch killing a third-class passenger while accepting a bribe from a rich man). When disposability is falsely made a characteristic of both sexes and class disposability is played up, it leaves us downplaying the true disposability of masculinity - only 8 percent of the second-class men saving themselves while saving 84 percent of their wives and 100 percent of their children."

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@dougspray1 ???? ⚧

i think your meaning is closest for me,

This song has meant different things to me at different times in my life. At this moment, your particular interpretation expresses my present situation/feeling perfectly.

I love your depression-angeled interpretation. It makes so much sense in my current situation.

And, to clarify the obvious, it's about:

and if I only could
i'd be running up that hill (for you)

So the narrator knows it's impossible to do it for someone else, but wants it done with Gods help.

@placebohearts
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