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“Hounds of Love” is the title track of the Hounds of Love album by Kate Bush, the third of the album’s four singles. The single was released on 24 February 1986, and reached number 18 in the UK Singles Chart. The song is about being afraid to fall in love; in the song this feeling is compared to being chased by a pack of hounds. The music video (directed by Bush herself) was very much inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s film The 39 Steps and ‘Hitchcock’ also features in the video (a nod to the director’s famous cameo appearances in his movies). The versions worldwide differ slightly: the US single mix included an additional chorus just after the second chorus. The words “it’s in the trees, it’s coming!“ heard at the beginning of the track are sampled from the British... Read on...