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Up the Hill Backwards Meanings & Lyrics Discussion by liplex | SongMeanings
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The "up the hill backwards" part is about how we move forward through time; it all seems a difficult struggle and all we can see is that which we have already traversed below...and from that vantage the past looks usually as difficult as the climb at the moment. That last part, not so certain, but very much so on the chronology-based element of the title.
"The vacuum created by the arrival of freedom" would be much like, say, something a retiree may face upon leaving work to a full "freedom"...but without any structure or purpose it can seem like so muc ha vacuum to so many you see them going right back to some type of job to have purpose and human contact. I think this relates in some manner to Bowie's own unbounded lifestyle which, having recognized this principle, is founded on his own strength of self-discipline to create the actual boundaries of his career and self. "Nobody down here can do it for me"...which appears in "When You Rock and Roll With Me" is part of the same concept.
The end of that one line being "and the possibilities it seems to offer" would relate to the nature of choice from imagined, fantisized, researched, learned options for "how to be" and also, in the next line "it's got nothing to do with you" referencing the limited nature of actual "freedom", it being bounded only by those actual options available to your skill, class, talent, investedness, etc. "Land of the Free"...sure...you go out and get that job you can't afford to obtain...wow those people in conversation that are above your level of intelligence...get that hot size-queen at the bar with your undersized (>>>>> Anyone else have any ideas???
The "up the hill backwards" part is about how we move forward through time; it all seems a difficult struggle and all we can see is that which we have already traversed below...and from that vantage the past looks usually as difficult as the climb at the moment. That last part, not so certain, but very much so on the chronology-based element of the title.
"The vacuum created by the arrival of freedom" would be much like, say, something a retiree may face upon leaving work to a full "freedom"...but without any structure or purpose it can seem like so muc ha vacuum to so many you see them going right back to some type of job to have purpose and human contact. I think this relates in some manner to Bowie's own unbounded lifestyle which, having recognized this principle, is founded on his own strength of self-discipline to create the actual boundaries of his career and self. "Nobody down here can do it for me"...which appears in "When You Rock and Roll With Me" is part of the same concept.
The end of that one line being "and the possibilities it seems to offer" would relate to the nature of choice from imagined, fantisized, researched, learned options for "how to be" and also, in the next line "it's got nothing to do with you" referencing the limited nature of actual "freedom", it being bounded only by those actual options available to your skill, class, talent, investedness, etc. "Land of the Free"...sure...you go out and get that job you can't afford to obtain...wow those people in conversation that are above your level of intelligence...get that hot size-queen at the bar with your undersized (>>>>> Anyone else have any ideas???