While the chorus (and title) points to hate and fear in a love relationship, the verses on the other hand sound like random psychotic rants about Annie Lennox's strange fixations and have nothing to do with anything else in the song, like this. Firstly, isn't it just going a bit overboard travelling all the way to a desert just to see some sand? Ever heard of a beach, Annie? Secondly, has she got some fetish with differently coloured right hands? And surely she can hazard a guess of the colour just by looking at the person anyway?