''Running To The Sea''

I love this song. It is absolutely wonderful. The music, her voice, part of the lyrics wake up some very deep emotions. And from what I saw in youtube comments many people share this feeling.

So far, I have no clue what is the actual meaning of the lyrics. Usually, I pick up the lines I like, I make a story on my mind that fits them and the melody, and I live happily ever after with it. Well, until someone points out the actual meaning. I have to admit this way many dear songs have been ruined.  Reality sucks! Sometimes it's the artist himself, sometimes a friend. Katie Melua, I'm afraid, has done that a couple of times in her interviews.

There is always a risk listening the artists discussing their art. Any art. It can be, for sure, enlightening and reveal meanings you would never imagine, it can give a new perspective and deepen your understanding but it can also be disappointing and leave you with the empty feeling that something was stolen from you. In a way it is. It's the sensation you had about it. The memories or the feelings of yours that had finally tuned their expression with it and now are hanging teased and naked. Despite this risk I actually seek to find out what inspired the artist or how other people feel/think about it. I'm listening to the interviews or reading an essay about a paining or a poem and my heart bits a little bit faster with agony if I got it correctly, if my perception will remain intact. And it happened to me with pieces that I really loved/love, to get this frustration. I managed to overcome it somehow, at least partly, as they had already become so personal that it was impossible to restore their actual meaning. 

So to come back to this excellent song; 

My dearest Susanne, Svein and Torbjørn,

I really really love your song! As a great addicted fan of it I need a favour. When you speak about this song, please, please say something among others about potential in closet, about powerful youth that fears it'll end up wasted, about big exciting, yet, far from realized dreams.
Please don't talk only about anger which is my second not the favourite interpretation of your song...
I really love it, please don't ruin it.

...or say something, something which would lead in a different dimention, something that would force me to love this song even more.

Yours sincerely,
Maraki

And for the record, the least expecting explanation I found searching in the web was that this song talks about oil!