Up That Hill

Heard that song again the other day and it dropped me straight back—to that Placebo and Kate Bush version that aired somewhere in The O.C., moved me to tears then and moves me to tears now. ’And if I only could, Make a deal with God, And get him to swap our places…’ That’s it. That’s the moment that sticks. There’s something in how they do that cover, something that hits different every time. I’ve been thinking about artists willing to be that open, that real with what they make. That matters. Every time someone puts something genuinely theirs out there, someone else is hearing it and carrying it forward years later. That’s worth something.