I've always felt that this is a song about unrequited love, and I now know the feeling all too well. To me it seems that she's in love with a good friend, 'They're setting fire to the cornfields as you're taking me home. The smell of burning fields will now mean you and here.' She clings to every precious moment with him, all the while knowing that he doesn't see her as anything more than a friend.
'The thrill and the hurting' are the thrill of being so close to the one you love, the stab of pleasure you get when you see them in the distance, and the hurting is the pain of knowing that you will never experience a deeper relationship with that person, the hurt of seeing them with someone else. But being so in love with them that you can't stay away, you have to see them no matter how much it hurts knowing that their love will never be for you. Dreaming about the life you could have with them, wanting that more than the reality of the friendship. Wanting to be with them so desperately that you physically ache to be with them, to have just a momentary connection with them, having the desperate need to be near them.
I've not listened to this for years, but I've been listening to The Sensual World today and all of a sudden the feelings that I've had for a good friend of mine have come sharply into focus while listening to this. It's almost as if Kate's reading my mind, but perhaps I'm investing too much of my own life and feelings in this!
I've always felt that this is a song about unrequited love, and I now know the feeling all too well. To me it seems that she's in love with a good friend, 'They're setting fire to the cornfields as you're taking me home. The smell of burning fields will now mean you and here.' She clings to every precious moment with him, all the while knowing that he doesn't see her as anything more than a friend.
'The thrill and the hurting' are the thrill of being so close to the one you love, the stab of pleasure you get when you see them in the distance, and the hurting is the pain of knowing that you will never experience a deeper relationship with that person, the hurt of seeing them with someone else. But being so in love with them that you can't stay away, you have to see them no matter how much it hurts knowing that their love will never be for you. Dreaming about the life you could have with them, wanting that more than the reality of the friendship. Wanting to be with them so desperately that you physically ache to be with them, to have just a momentary connection with them, having the desperate need to be near them.
I've not listened to this for years, but I've been listening to The Sensual World today and all of a sudden the feelings that I've had for a good friend of mine have come sharply into focus while listening to this. It's almost as if Kate's reading my mind, but perhaps I'm investing too much of my own life and feelings in this!