Moving Mountains

Album: Here I Stand (2008)
Charted: 25 67
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Songfacts®:

  • On this slow burn ballad Usher sings about infidelity and trying to maintain a relationship that's gone cold. about infidelity. Usher told Entertainment Weekly: "It's about a guy who makes a mistake and has an understanding with his woman that it's OK - but she really didn't forgive him. And trying to get her to get over it is like moving a mountain." The emotional strain of infidelity was a big part of Usher's 2004 album Confessions.
  • This was produced by C "Tricky" Stewart and Terius "The-Dream" Nash ("Umbrella").

Comments: 3

  • Simamkele Nikelo from South AfricaA very emotional song from what I have seen. Usher is really trying to win back her trust by going after her, but it seems the closer he reaches her, she blows hot and cold judging from the steam when she disappeared when posing on the ground. I can see Usher struggling from going up the mountains, but you can see she is very cold/emotionally unavailable looking at him from above not bothered by the icy weather until she is angry when he climbs up the mountains, judging from the lightning and storm sounds. Definitely the relationship wasn't going anywhere because it went from destruction and smoke to dry to cold. Put yourself in her shoes, she obviously had it in her mind that she will not move on with him when he broke their trust in the relationship. If I was her I would have done the same. I pity him though because his gestures are genuine into getting her back. All I have to say about it.
  • Dzee from UgandaI Love MJ todate n to me Usher is the only one who really did some to get that good too, n I loved it in Moving mountains Ballard.
  • Faye from Chicago, IlThis song makes me cry.. there is so much emotion behind it, it is hard to take it all in! In the music video, I can feel the pain in his voice. I think Usher has really progressed as a male in the entertainment industry and he is not singing about the things that he used to when he was younger...he's grown up. I hope it hits the top of the charts but that people see what this song is really about.
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