Right now it is just speaking to me about wanting to take the pain of someone you love very much. To swap places with them. As a parent we can feel this way about our children when they are sick, or troubled, or hurt; and this doesn't end when they grow up. However it could be a friend, a parent, a sibling. You would give anything wouldn't you? To be able to fix a terrible pain, to make it better for them?
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Sing-a-long-a-Saturday
This came to my attention again a few weeks ago, after not hearing it so often for many years! I am used to the Kate Bush version which was the original, and Kate wrote it too I believe. I read that she wrote it about how men and women were so different they could never understand each other, unless they swapped places for a time.
Right now it is just speaking to me about wanting to take the pain of someone you love very much. To swap places with them. As a parent we can feel this way about our children when they are sick, or troubled, or hurt; and this doesn't end when they grow up. However it could be a friend, a parent, a sibling. You would give anything wouldn't you? To be able to fix a terrible pain, to make it better for them?
Right now it is just speaking to me about wanting to take the pain of someone you love very much. To swap places with them. As a parent we can feel this way about our children when they are sick, or troubled, or hurt; and this doesn't end when they grow up. However it could be a friend, a parent, a sibling. You would give anything wouldn't you? To be able to fix a terrible pain, to make it better for them?
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I don't think I've ever heard that song before. Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteIt's so hard to watch another go through hardship or suffering of any kind.
oh sunshine Jan... I am wondering and wondering what could lead you to feel that way... I hope that whatever is going on will soon heal and flutter away.
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