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Difference between revisions 224630 and 235191 on frwikiquote[[File:Kate Bush at 1986 Comic Relief (cropped).png|244px|thumb|right|Just being [[Life|alive]]<br>It can really hurt.<br>These moments given<br>Are a gift from [[time]].<br>Just let us try<br>To give these moments back<br>To those we [[love]]...]] '''{{w|Kate Bush}}''', née '''Catherine Bush''' le 30 juillet 1958, est une musicienne, auteur - compositeur- interprète, et producteur de disque. Elle est la soeur du poète John Carder Bush. == Quotes == * '''[[Art|Artists]] shouldn't be made [[Fame|famous]].''' You know... they're just ... as important as... um doctors, and priests ... or maybe not as important sometimes, and yet they have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. '''And at the same time it is a ''forced'' importance — you know, football stars and theatre stars — It is man-made so the press can feed off it.''' ** ''Profiles in Rock'' interview (December 1980) === MOJO interview (2005) === :<small>Excerpts from an interview in ''MOJO'' magazine (3 November 2005) as quoted in [http://www.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,16373,1601608,00.html ''The Guardian''] ([[2005-10-28]])</small> * '''I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. '''Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.''' * There were so many times I thought, "I'll have the album finished this year, definitely, we'll get it out this year." Then there were a couple of years where I thought, "I'm never gonna do this." If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? '''Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.''' * ''There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: "Here's what I've been working on," and then produced some cakes from your oven. True?''<br>"No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?" * '''For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.''' It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. Friends of mine in the business don't know how dishwashers work. For me, that's frightening.''' I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. Even more so now where you've got this sort of truly silly preoccupation with celebrities. Just because somebody's been in an ad on TV, so what? Who gives a toss?''' == Song lyrics == === ''[[w:The Kick Inside|The Kick Inside]]'' (1978) === :<small>[http://gaffa.org/sensual/tsw_tki.html Full lyrics online]</small> [[File:Humpback Whale underwater shot.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Moving stranger,<br>Does it really matter,<br>As long as you're not afraid to feel?]] '''[[w:Moving (Kate Bush song)|Moving]]''' :<small>This first track of Bush's first album is a tribute to Bush's mime instructor [[w:Lindsay Kemp|Lindsay Kemp]], and opens and closes with a whale song.</small> * '''Moving stranger,<br>Does it really matter,<br>As long as you're not afraid to feel?''' [[File:Saxophone alto.jpg|144px|thumb|right|There's something very real in how I feel, honey. <br> It's in me.<br>It's in me,<br>And you know it's for real.<br>Tuning in on your saxophone...]] * Touch me, hold me.<br>How my open arms ache!<br>Try to fall for me. * '''How I'm moved.<br>How you move me<br>With your beauty's potency.''' '''The Saxophone Song''' * '''There's something very special indeed,<br>In all the places where I've seen you shine, boy.'''<br>There's something very real in how I feel, honey. <br> It's in me.<br>It's in me,<br>And you know it's for real.<br>Tuning in on your saxophone... * '''You'll never know that you had all of me.<br>You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.'''<br>Of all the stars I've seen that shine so brightly,<br>I've never known or felt in myself so rightly, <br> It's in me... '''[[w:Strange Phenomena (song)|Strange Phenomena]]''' [[File:Moon rise 2-20-08-3.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Soon it will be the phase of the moon<br>When people tune in.]] * '''Soon it will be the phase of the moon<br>When people tune in.'''<br>Every girl knows about the punctual blues,<br>But who's to know the power behind our moves? * '''We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.<br>Soul-birds of a feather flock together.''' [[File:Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byLöser.jpg|144px|thumb|right| There's a hole in the sky with a big eyeball<br>Calling me: "Come up and be a kite..."]] '''Kite''' * '''There's a hole in the sky with a big eyeball<br>Calling me: "Come up and be a kite,<br>On a diamond flight!"''' * A diamond kite<br>On a diamond flight.<br>Over the lights, under the moon.<br>Over the lights, under the moon.<br>Over the moon, over the moon! [[File:The Flood, by Paul Merwart.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Suddenly I find myself<br>Listening to a man I've never known before,<br>Telling me about the sea,<br>All his love, 'til Eternity.]] '''[[w:The Man with the Child in His Eyes|The Man with the Child in His Eyes]]''' * '''I hear him, before I go to sleep<br>And focus on the day that's been.'''<br>I realise he's there,<br>When I turn the light off and turn over. * '''Nobody knows about my man.<br>They think he's lost on some horizon.<br>And suddenly I find myself<br>Listening to a man I've never known before,<br>Telling me about the sea,<br>All his love, 'til Eternity.''' * Ooh, he's here again,<br>The man with the child in his eyes. '''[[w:Wuthering Heights (song)|Wuthering Heights]]''' [[File:Johann Heinrich Füssli 015.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Ooh, it gets dark! It gets lonely,<br>On the other side from you...]] * '''Out on the wiley, windy moors<br>We'd roll and fall in green.<br>You had a temper like my jealousy:<br>Too hot, too greedy.<br>How could you leave me,<br>When I needed to possess you?<br>I hated you. I loved you, too.''' * Bad dreams in the night.<br>They told me I was going to lose the fight,<br>Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering<br>Wuthering Heights. * Heathcliff, it's me — Cathy. * '''Ooh, it gets dark! It gets lonely,<br>On the other side from you.<br>I pine a lot. I find the lot<br>Falls through without you.'''<br>I'm coming back, love.<br>Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream,<br>My only master. * Ooh! Let me have it.<br>Let me grab your soul away. '''James And The Cold Gun''' * Ooh, James, are you selling your soul to a cold gun? * You're a coward, James.<br>You're running away from humanity.<br>You're running away from reality.<br>It won't be funny when they rat-a-tat-tat you down. [[File:James Barry 001.jpg|144px|thumb|right| Nobody else can share this. <br> Here comes one and one makes one, <br> The glorious union.]] '''Feel It''' * '''Nobody else can share this. <br> Here comes one and one makes one, <br> The glorious union. <br>Well it could be love, <br>Or it could be just lust, <br> But it will be fun. <br> It will be wonderful.''' * God, but you're beautiful, aren't you?<br>Feel your warm hand walking around.<br>I won't pull away.<br>My passion always wins.<br>So keep on a-moving in.<br>So keep on a-tuning in.<br>Synchronise rhythm now. '''Oh To Be In Love''' [[File:A Love for the Arts by Delacorr.jpg|144px|thumb|right|All the colours look brighter now.<br>Everything they say seems to sound new...]] * '''I could have been anyone.<br>You could have been anyone's dream.<br>Why did you have to choose our moment?'''<br>Why did you have to make me feel that?<br>Why did you make it so unreal? * '''Oh! To be in love,<br>And never get out again.''' * All the colours look brighter now.<br>Everything they say seems to sound new.<br>Slipping into tomorrow too quick,<br>Yesterday always too good to forget.<br>'''Stop the swing of the pendulum! Let us through!''' [[File:William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Bacchante (1894).jpg|144px|thumb|right| My eyes were shining on the wine, and your aura...]] '''L'Amour Looks Something Like You''' * You came out of the night,<br>Wearing a mask in white colour.<br>My eyes were shining<br>On the wine, and your aura. * You look like an [[Angels|angel]],<br>Sleeping it off at a station.<br>Were you only passing through? * I'm dying for you just to touch me,<br>And feel all the energy rushing right up-a-me.<br>L'amour looks something like you. [[File:Whirling Dervishes, Konya, Turkey, RMO.jpg|144px||thumb|right|I love the whirling of the dervishes.<br>I love the beauty of rare innocence.]] [[File:John William Waterhouse - The Crystal Ball.JPG|144px|144px|thumb|right| You don't need no crystal ball,<br>Don't fall for a [[magic]] wand.<br>We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.]] '''[[w:Them Heavy People|Them Heavy People]]''' * '''Rolling the ball, rolling the ball, rolling the ball to me...''' * '''I must work on my mind. For now I realise:<br>Everyone of us has a heaven inside.''' * Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.<br>Them heavy people help me. * '''They open doorways that I thought were shut for good.'''<br>They read me [[G. I. Gurdjieff|Gurdjieff]] and [[Jesus|Jesu]].<br>They build up my body, break me emotionally.<br>It's nearly killing me, but what a lovely feeling! * '''I love the whirling of the dervishes.<br>I love the beauty of rare innocence.<br>You don't need no crystal ball,<br>Don't fall for a [[magic]] wand.<br>We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.''' '''Room For The Life''' * Hey there, you lady in tears,<br>Do you think that they care if they're real, woman?<br>They just take it as part of the deal. * '''Like it or not, we were built tough,<br>Because we're woman.''' * No, we never die for long,<br>While we've got that little life<br>To live for, where it's hid inside. * Like it or not, we keep bouncing back,<br>Because we're woman. [[File:Sonnenfinsternis 1999-08-11 1.jpg|144px|thumb|right|I will come home again, but not until<br>The sun and the moon meet on yon hill.]] '''The Kick Inside''' * '''I'm giving it all in a moment or two.<br>I'm giving it all in a moment, for you.''' * This kicking here inside<br>Makes me leave you behind.<br>No more under the quilt<br>To keep you warm.<br>Your sister I was born.<br>You must lose me like an arrow,<br>Shot into the killer storm. * You and me on the bobbing knee.<br>Didn't we cry at that old mythology he'd read!<br>I will come home again, but not until<br>The sun and the moon meet on yon hill. === ''[[w:Lionheart (album)|Lionheart]]'' (1978) === :<small>[http://gaffa.org/sensual/tsw_lh.html Full lyrics online]</small> [[File:Fractal nevit 75.png|144px|thumb|right|I spend a lot of my time looking at blue,<br> The colour of my room and my mood...]] '''[[w:Symphony in Blue|Symphony in Blue]]''' * '''I spend a lot of my time looking at blue,<br> The colour of my room and my mood...''' [[File:The Realm of Rane - by Jeroen van Valkenburg.PNG|144px|thumb|right|My terrible fear of dying<br> No longer plays with me,<br> for now I know that I'm needed<br> For the symphony.]] * When that feeling of meaninglessness sets in,<br> Go blowing my mind on God:<br> The light in the dark, with the neon arms,<br> The meek He seeks, the beast He calms,<br> The head of the good soul department. * '''My terrible fear of dying<br> No longer plays with me,<br> for now I know that I'm needed<br> For the symphony.''' * '''The more I think about sex, the better it gets.'''<br> Here we have a purpose in life:<br> Good for the blood circulation,<br> Good for releasing the tension,<br> The root of our reincarnations. '''In Search Of Peter Pan''' [[File:Peter Pan 1915 cover 2.JPG|144px|thumb|right|When I am a man I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan.]] * I no longer see a future.<br> I've been told when I get older<br> That I'll understand<br> It all.<br> But I'm not sure if I want to. * '''They took the game right out of it.<br> When I am a man<br> I will be an astronaut,<br> And find Peter Pan.''' '''[[w:Wow (song)|Wow]]''' * '''We're all alone on the stage tonight.'''<br> We've been told we're not afraid of you. <br> '''We know all our lines so well...<br> We've said them so many times''':<br> Time and time again,<br> Line and line again. * You say we're fantastic,<br> But still we don't head the bill.<br> Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! ''Unbelievable!'' * Ooh, yeah, you're amazing!<br> We think you are really cool.<br> We'd give you a part, my love,<br> But you'd have to play the fool. '''Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake''' * Emma's come down.<br>She's stopped the light<br>Shining out of her eyes. * '''Oh, come on, you've got to use your flow.<br>You know what it's like, and you know you want to go.'''<br>Don't drive too slowly.<br>Don't put your blues where your shoes should be.<br>Don't put your foot on the heartbrake.''' '''Oh England My Lionheart''' [[File:Spitfire-under.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Oh! England, my Lionheart!<br>Dropped from my black Spitfire to my funeral barge.<br>Give me one kiss in apple-blossom.]] * Oh! England, my Lionheart!<br>Dropped from my black Spitfire to my funeral barge.<br>Give me one kiss in apple-blossom.<br>Give me one wish, and I'd be wassailing<br>In the orchard, my English rose,<br>Or with my shepherd, who'll bring me home. '''Fullhouse''' * '''I am my enemy'''<br>Mowing me over,<br>And towing the light away. * '''Remember yourself.'''<br>You've got a Full House in your head tonight... ** "Remember yourself" was a motto of [[G. I. Gurdjieff]], whose ideas were an early influence on Bush. * Surely by now I should know<br>I can control<br>My highs and my lows <br> By questioning all that I do,<br>Examining every move,<br>Trying to get back to the rudiments. '''In The Warm Room''' * In the warm room<br>She'll touch you with your Mamma's hand.<br>You'll long to kiss those red lips,<br>But when you do<br>It'll feel like kicking a habit. '''Kashka From Baghdad''' * Kashka from Baghdad<br>Lives in sin, they say,<br>With another man,<br>But no one knows who. * At night<br>They're seen<br>Laughing,<br>Loving.<br>They know<br>The way<br>To be<br>Happy. '''Coffee Homeground''' * Well, you won't get me with your Belladonna — in the coffee,<br>And you won't get me with your aresenic — in the pot of tea,<br>And you won't get me in a hole to rot — with your hemlock<br>On the rocks. * Maybe you're lonely,<br>And only want a little company,<br>But keep your recipes<br>For the rats to eat,<br>And may they rest in peace with coffee homeground. '''[[w:Hammer Horror (song)|Hammer Horror]]''' [[File:Victor Hugo-Hunchback.jpg|144px|thumb|right| I've got a hunch that you're following,<br>To get your own back on me...]] * You stood in the belltower,<br>But now you're gone.<br>So who knows all the sights<br>Of Notre Dame? * Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,<br>Won't leave me alone.<br>The first time in my life,<br>I leave the lights on<br>To ease my soul. * I've got a hunch that you're following,<br>To get your own back on me.<br>So all I want to do is forget<br>You, friend. === ''[[w:Never for Ever|Never for Ever]]'' (1980) === :<small>[http://gaffa.org/sensual/tsw_nfe.html Full lyrics online]</small> '''[[w:Babooshka (song)|Babooshka]]''' * '''She wanted to test her husband.<br>She knew exactly what to do:<br>A pseudonym to fool him.<br>She couldn't have made a worse move.''' [[File:Jean Béraud L'escrimeuse.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Just like his wife before she freezed on him,<br>Just like his wife when she was beautiful.]] * She sent him scented letters,<br>And he received them with a strange delight.<br>Just like his wife<br>But how she was before the tears,<br>And how she was before the years flew by,<br>And how she was when she was beautiful. * Just like his wife before she freezed on him,<br>Just like his wife when she was beautiful. '''Delius (Song Of Summer)''' :<small>A song about the composers [[w:Frederick Delius|Frederick Delius]] and [[w:Eric Fenby|Eric Fenby]].</small> * Ooh, he's a moody old man.<br>''Song of Summer'' in his hand.<br>Ooh, he's a moody old man.<br>...in...in...in his hand.<br>...in his hand. * To be sung of a summer night on the water.<br>Ooh, on the water. <br> "Ta, ta-ta!<br>Hmm.<br>Ta, ta-ta!<br>In B, Fenby!" '''Blow Away (For Bill)''' :<small>Dedicated to Bill Duffield, Bush's lighting engineer, who died in a stage accident. </small> * One of the band told me last night<br>That music is all that he's got in his life.<br>So where does it go?<br>Surely not with his soul.<br>Will all of his licks and his R'n'B <br> Blow away? * Our engineer had a different idea<br>From people who nearly died but survived,<br>Feeling no fear of leaving their bodies here,<br>And went to a room that was soon full of visitors. * '''Put out the light, then, put out the light.'''<br>Vibes in the sky invite you to dine. <br>Dust to dust,<br>Blow to blow. '''All We Ever Look For''' [[File:Nefertiti 30-01-2006.jpg|144px|thumb|right|All we ever look for — a little bit of you.]] * '''The whims that we're weeping for<br>Our parents would be beaten for.''' * Leave the breast<br>And then the nest<br>And then regret you ever left. * '''All we ever look for — a god.<br>All we ever look for — ooh, a drug.<br>All we ever look for — a great big hug.'''<br>All we ever look for — a little bit of you.<br>All we ever look for — a little bit of you, too.<br>All we ever look for,<br>But we never do score. '''Egypt''' [[File:SphinxGiza.jpg|144px|thumb|right| Follow the Nile<br>Deep to much deeper.<br>The Pyramids sound lonely tonight.]] [[File:King_Tut_Ankh_Amun_Golden_Mask.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Oh, I'm in love<br>With Egypt.]] * '''Follow the Nile<br>Deep to much deeper.<br>The Pyramids sound lonely tonight.''' <br> The sands run red<br>In lands of the Pharoahs.<br>Their symmetry gets right inside me. * Oh, I'm in love<br>With Egypt. * My Pussy Queen<br>Knows all my secrets.<br>I'll never fall in love again. '''The Wedding List''' [[File:Bride1929.jpg|144px|thumb|right|We've come together in the very same room,<br>And I'm coming for you!]] * Somehow this was it, I knew.<br>Maybe fate wants you dead, too:<br>We've come together in the very same room,<br>And I'm coming for you! * All I see is Rudi.<br>I die with him, again and again.<br>And I'll feel good in my revenge.<br>I'm gonna fill your head with lead<br>And I'm coming for you! '''Violin''' [[File:Maitelouis1.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Four strings across the bridge,<br>Ready to carry me over...]] * Four strings across the bridge,<br>Ready to carry me over,<br>Over the quavers, drunk in the bars,<br>Out of the realm of the orchestra... * Get the bow going!<br>Let it scream to me:<br>Violin! Violin! Violin! * Give me the [[w:Banshee|Banshees]] for B.V.s. ** B.V.s : backing vocals. [[File:William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros (1880).jpg|144px|thumb|right| I cannot sit and let something happen I'll regret.<br>Ooh, he scares me! There's a man behind those eyes.]] '''The Infant Kiss''' :<small>Ths song was inspired by the film ''[[w:The Innocents (film)|The Innocents]]'' (1961), itself derived from ''[[w:The Turn of the Screw|The Turn of the Screw]]'' (1898) by [[Henry James|Henry James]]. Bush also wrote and sang a French version of this song: "''Un Baiser d'enfant''"</small> * '''I say good night-night<br>I tuck him in tight.<br>But things are not right.'''<br> ''What is this?'' An infant kiss<br>That sends my body tingling? * His little hand is on my heart.<br>He's got me where it ''hurts'' me.<br>Knock, knock. Who's there in this baby?<br>You know how to work me.<br> '''All my barriers are going.<br>It's starting to show.''' * I cannot sit and let<br>Something happen I'll regret.<br>Ooh, he scares me!<br>There's a man behind those eyes.<br>I catch him when I'm bending. * I want to smack but I hold back.<br>I only want to touch.<br>But I must stay and find a way<br>To stop before it gets too much!<br>All my barriers are going.<br>It's starting to show. [[File:High Wood cemetery, France.jpg|144px|thumb|right| What a waste of Army dreamers...]] '''[[w:Army Dreamers|Army Dreamers]]''' [[File:Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg|144px|thumb|right|We've lost our chance.<br>We're the first and the last, ooh,<br>After the blast.]] * '''What could he do?<br>Should have been a father.<br>But he never even made it to his twenties.<br>What a waste — <br>Army dreamers.<br>Ooh, what a waste of<br>Army dreamers.''' * Oh, Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know,<br>Like a chicken with a fox,<br>He couldn't win the war with ego.<br> Give the kid the pick of pips,<br>And give him all your stripes and ribbons.<br>Now he's sitting in his hole,<br>He might as well have buttons and bows. [[File:Ivy King - distance.jpg|144px|thumb|right| I love my Beloved... All and everywhere, Only the fools blew it...]] '''[[w:Breathing (song)|Breathing]]''' * '''Outside<br>Gets inside<br>Through her skin.''' * '''Breathing my mother in,<br>Breathing my beloved in''',<br>Breathing,<br>Breathing her nicotine,<br>Breathing,<br>Breathing the fall-out in,<br>Out in, out in, out in, out in. * '''We've lost our chance.<br>We're the first and the last, ooh,<br>After the blast.''' * '''I love my<br>Beloved, ooh,<br>All and everywhere,<br>Only the fools blew it.<br>You and me<br>Knew life itself is <br> Breathing...''' [[File:Holygrail.jpg|144px|thumb|right| I hold a cup of wisdom,<br>But there is nothing within.]] === [[w:The Dreaming (album)|''The Dreaming'']] (1982) === :<small>[http://gaffa.org/sensual/tsw_td.html Full lyrics online]</small> '''[[w:Sat in Your Lap|Sat in Your Lap]]''' :<small>This song incorporates a bit of Bush's eccentric wordplay: [[w:Sat (Sanskrit)|Sat]] is a [[w:Hinduism|Hindu]] and [[w:Sikhism|Sikh]] term for [[w:Truth|Truth]], or [[w:Knowledge|Knowledge]] related to the concept of [[w:Dharma#Developing_conceptions|Dharma]].</small> * '''Some say that knowledge is something that you never have.<br>Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap.<br>Some say that heaven is hell.<br>Some say that hell is heaven.''' * I must admit, just when I think I'm king, :: I just begin. * '''I hold a cup of wisdom,<br>But there is nothing within.''' '''[[w:There Goes a Tenner|There Goes a Tenner]]''' [[File:Combinatoria.jpg|144px|thumb|right|The sense of adventure<br>Is changing to danger...]] * '''The sense of adventure<br>Is changing to danger.<br>The signal has been given.''' * My excitement<br>Turns into fright.<br> All my words fade.<br>What am I gonna say?<br>Mustn't give the game away. [[File:Mills N° 23 MkIII-2.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Just one thing in it:<br>Me or him.<br>Just one thing in it:<br>Me or him.<br>And I love life!]] '''Pull Out The Pin''' * Just one thing in it:<br>Me or him.<br>Just one thing in it:<br>Me or him.<br>And I love life! * He's big and pink, and not like me.<br>He sees no light.<br>He sees no reason for the fighting... [[File:Divina - by Jeroen van Valkenburg.PNG|144px|thumb|right|We're not ones for busting through walls,<br> But they've told us<br>Unless we can prove<br>That we're doing it,<br>We can't have it all.]] '''[[w:Suspended in Gaffa (song)|Suspended in Gaffa]]''' * '''Out in the garden<br>There's half of a heaven''',<br>And we're only bluffing.<br>We're not ones for busting through walls,<br> But they've told us<br>'''Unless we can prove<br>That we're doing it,<br>We can't have it all.''' * I don't know why I'm crying.<br>Am I suspended in Gaffa?<br>'''Not until I'm ready for you,<br>Not until I'm ready for you<br>Can I have it all.''' * '''I won't open boxes<br>That I am told not to.<br>I'm not a Pandora.<br>I'm much more like<br> That girl in the mirror.'''<br>Between you and me<br>She don't stand a chance of getting anywhere at all. * Mother, where are the [[angels]]? I'm scared of the changes. ** Whispered in a childlike voice. '''Leave It Open''' * '''My door was never locked,<br>Until one day a trigger come cocking.<br>(But now I've started learning how,)<br>I keep it shut.''' * Harm is in us.<br>Harm in us, but power to arm.<br>Harm is in us.<br>''Leave it open!'' * '''''We let the weirdness in.''''' [[File:Australie 2 389.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Coming in with the golden light<br>In the morning.<br>Coming in with the golden light<br>Is the New Man.]] '''[[w:The Dreaming (song)|The Dreaming]]''' :<small>This song deals with the Australian traditions of [[w:Dreamtime|"The Dreaming"]] </small> * '''''See the light ram through the gaps in the land.''<br>Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree<br>'Til you near him on the motorway<br>And the tree begin to breathe.''' * ''''Coming in with the golden light<br>In the morning.<br>Coming in with the golden light<br>Is the New Man.''' * '''The civilised keep alive<br>The territorial war...'''<br> Erase the race that claim the place<br>And say we dig for ore,<br>Or dangle devils in a bottle<br>And push them from the ''pull of the Bush.'' '''[[w:Night of the Swallow (song)|Night Of The Swallow]]''' [[File:Hirundo rustica young male spring NRM.jpg|144px|thumb|right|In Malta, catch a swallow,<br>For all of the guilty — to set them free.]] * If you go, I'll let the law know,<br>And they'll head you off when you touch the ground.<br>Ooh, please, don't go through with this.<br>I don't like the sound of it. * '''In Malta, catch a swallow,<br>For all of the guilty — to set them free.<br>Wings fill the window,<br>And they beat and bleed.''' <br> They hold the sky on the other side<br>Of borderlines. * ''Give me a break!<br>Ooh, let me try!<br>Give me something to show<br>For my miserable life!<br>Give me something to take!<br>Would you break even my wings,<br>Just like a swallow?'' [[File:Tribute in Light Memorial September 9 2004.jpg|144px|thumb|right| Only tragedy allows the release of love and grief never normally seen...]] '''All The Love''' * '''We needed you<br>To love us too.<br>We wait for your move.''' * '''Only tragedy allows the release<br>Of love and grief never normally seen.'''<br>I didn't want to let them see me weep,<br>I didn't want to let them see me weak,<br>But I know I have shown<br>That I stand at the gates alone. * '''I needed you<br>To love me too.<br>I wait for your move.''' * '''All the love, all the love,<br>All the love we should have given.<br>All the love, all the love,<br>All the love you could have given.<br>All the love...''' [[File:Weiss with mother and wife.jpg|144px|thumb|right|With a kiss <br> I'd pass the key <br> And feel your tongue <br>Teasing and receiving.]] '''Houdini''' * The tambourine jingle-jangles.<br>The medium roams and rambles.<br>Not taken in,<br>I break the circle.<br> I want this man<br>To go away now. * '''With a kiss <br> I'd pass the key <br> And feel your tongue <br>Teasing and receiving.''' <br> With your spit<br>Still on my lip,<br>You hit the water. * '''Rosabel believe,<br>Not even eternity<br>Can hold Houdini!<br> "Rosabel, believe!" ''' '''Get Out Of My House''' * I will not let you in.<br>I face towards the wind.<br>I change into the Mule. [[File:Lightning02.jpg|144px|thumb|right| There is thunder in our hearts...]] === ''[[w:Hounds of Love|Hounds of Love]]'' (1985) === :<small>[http://gaffa.org/sensual/tsw_hol.html Full lyrics online]</small> '''[[w:Running Up That Hill|Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)]]''' * '''It doesn't hurt me.<br>Do you want to feel how it feels?<br>Do you want to know that it doesn't hurt me?<br>Do you want to hear about the deal that I'm making?'''<br>You, it's you and me. * '''And if I only could,<br>I'd make a deal with God,<br>And I'd get him to swap our places,<br>Be running up that road,<br>Be running up that hill,<br>Be running up that building.''' * '''You don't want to hurt me,<br>But see how deep the bullet lies.<br>Unaware I'm tearing you asunder.<br>Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts.''' * '''Is there so much hate for the ones we love?<br>Tell me, we both matter, don't we?'''<br>You, it's you and me.<br>It's you and me won't be unhappy. * '''C'mon, baby, c'mon darling,<br>Let me steal this moment from you now.<br>C'mon, [[Angels|angel]], c'mon, c'mon, darling,<br>Let's exchange the experience, oh...''' * If I only could<br>Be running up that hill<br>With no problems... [[File:Muir Wood10.JPG|144px|thumb|right| ''It's in the trees! It's coming!'']] '''[[w:Hounds of Love (song)|Hounds Of Love]]''' * ''It's in the trees!<br>It's coming!'' * I found a fox<br>Caught by dogs.<br>He let me take him in my hands.<br> His little heart,<br>It beats so fast,<br>And I'm ashamed of running away<br> From nothing real — <br>I just can't deal with this,<br>But I'm still afraid to be there,<br> Among your hounds of love... * '''Do you know what I really need?<br>I need love love love love love, yeah!''' [[File:CL0024+17.jpg|144px|thumb|right| They look down at the ground, missing. But I never go in now. I'm looking at the Big Sky...]] '''[[w:The Big Sky (song)|The Big Sky]] ''' [[File:Hoag's object.jpg|144px|thumb|right|You never really understood me.<br>You never really tried.]] * '''They look down<br>At the ground,<br>Missing.<br>But I never go in now.'''<br> I'm looking at the Big Sky. * '''You never really understood me.<br>You never really tried.''' * This cloud, this cloud — <br> Says "Noah, <br> C'mon and build me an Ark."<br> And if you're coming, jump,<br> 'Cause <br> We're leaving with the Big Sky. '''Mother Stands For Comfort''' * She knows that I've been doing something wrong,<br>But she won't say anything. * Am I the cat that takes the bird?<br>To her the hunted, not the hunter. * Mother stands for comfort.<br>Mother will hide the murderer.<br>Mother hides the madman.<br>Mother will stay mum. [[File:Halo in cirrostratus 1.jpg|144px|thumb|right|I just know that something good is going to happen.<br> I don't know when,<br>But just saying it could even make it happen...]] '''[[w:Cloudbusting|Cloudbusting]]''' :<small>This song is sung from the perspective of [[Wilhelm Reich]]'s son Peter, whose memoir ''A Book of Dreams'' inspired it.</small> * '''I still dream of Orgonon.'''<br>I wake up crying.<br>You're making rain,<br>And you're just in reach,<br>When you and sleep escape me. * '''I just know that something good is going to happen.<br> I don't know when,<br>But just saying it could even make it happen.''' * '''On top of the world,<br>Looking over the edge,<br>You could see them coming.'''<br>You looked too small<br>In their big, black car,<br>To be a threat to the men in power.''' * I hid my yo-yo<br>In the garden.<br>I can't hide you<br>From the government.<br>Oh, God, Daddy — <br>I won't forget... [[File:Aivazovsky,_Ivan_-_The_Ninth_Wave.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Little light shining,<br>Little light will guide them to me.]] [[File:PortoCovoJan07-4.jpg|144px|thumb|right|If they find me racing white horses, they'll not take me for a buoy...]] ==== The Ninth Wave ==== '''And Dream Of Sheep''' * '''Little light shining,<br>Little light will guide them to me.'''<br>My face is all lit up,<br>My face is all lit up. * '''If they find me racing white horses,<br>They'll not take me for a buoy.'''<br>Let me be weak,<br>Let me sleep<br>And dream of sheep. * Ooh, their breath is warm<br>And they smell like sleep,<br>And they say they take me home.<br>Like poppies heavy with seed<br>They take me deeper and deeper. '''Under Ice''' * '''There's something moving<br>Under, under the ice,<br>Moving under ice,<br>Through water,<br>Trying to get out of the cold water.'''<br>"It's me."<br>Something, someone — help them.<br>"It's me." [[File:Wickiana4.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Look who's here to see you!]] [[File:Joan of arc interrogation.jpg|144px|thumb|right|''I question your innocence...'']] '''Waking The Witch''' * '''Wake up!'''...''You must wake up!'' * "Don't you know you've kept him waiting?"<br>"Look who's here to see you!" * ''I question your innocence!''<br>Help this blackbird!<br>''She's a witch!''<br>There's a stone around my leg. * ''What say you, good people?''<br>"Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!"<br>Help this blackbird... * "Get out of the waves! Get out of the water!" '''Watching You Without Me''' * '''You can't hear me.<br>You can't hear me.<br>You can't hear what I'm saying.<br>You can't hear what I'm saying to you.''' * I should have been home<br>Hours ago,<br>But I'm not here.<br>But I'm not here... '''Jig Of Life''' [[File:Boelge stor.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Catch us now for I am your future.<br>A kiss on the wind and we'll make the land.]] [[File:Waves forming at beach.jpg|144px|thumb|right|For Now does ride in on the curl of the wave,<br>And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools.]] * '''I'll be sitting in your mirror.<br>Now is the place where the crossroads meet.<br>Will you look into the future?''' * Never, never say goodbye<br>To my part of your life. * '''"This moment in time,"<br>(She said.)<br>It doesn't belong to you,"<br>(She said,)<br>It belongs to me''', <br> And your little boy and your little girl,<br>And the one hand clapping:<br>Where on your palm is my little line,<br>When you're written in mine<br>As an old memory? * Can't you see where memories are kept bright?<br>Tripping on the water like a laughing girl.<br>Time in her eyes is spawning past life,<br>One with the ocean and the woman unfurled,<br>Holding all the love that waits for you here.<br>Catch us now for I am your future.<br>A kiss on the wind and we'll make the land.<br>Come over here to where When lingers,<br>Waiting in this empty world,<br>Waiting for Then, when the lifespray cools.<br>'''For Now does ride in on the curl of the wave,<br>And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools.<br>We are of the going water and the gone.<br>We are of water in the holy land of water<br>And all that's to come runs in<br>With the thrust on the strand.''' ** This portion of "Jig of Life" was actually written as well as spoken by Kate's brother [[John Carder Bush]]. [[File:Shelfcloud.jpg|144px|thumb|right|I was there at the birth, Out of the cloudburst, The head of the tempest...]] '''Hello Earth''' * Watching storms<br>Start to form<br>Over America.<br>Can't do anything.<br>Just watch them swing<br>With the wind<br>Out to sea. * '''I was there at the birth,<br>Out of the cloudburst,<br>The head of the tempest.'''<br>Murderer!<br>Murder of calm... [[File:Iridescent fog.jpg|144px|thumb|right|The light<br>Begin to bleed,<br>Begin to breathe,<br>Begin to speak.]] [[File:Fof over Bay IMG 9533.JPG|144px|thumb|right| D'you know what?<br>I love you better now.]] '''The Morning Fog''' * '''The light<br>Begin to bleed,<br>Begin to breathe,<br>Begin to speak.<br>D'you know what?<br>I love you better now.''' * '''I'll kiss the ground.'''<br>I'll tell my mother,<br>I'll tell my father,<br>I'll tell my loved one,<br>I'll tell my brothers<br>How much I love them. [[File:William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Dawn (1881).jpg|144px|thumb|right| Stepping out... To where the water and the earth caress...]] === ''[[w:The Sensual World|The Sensual World]]'' (1989) === :<small>[http://gaffa.org/sensual/tsw_tsw.html Full text online]</small> '''The Sensual World''' :<small>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJc64xncBt4 Video performance]</small> * '''He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes, <br> But now I've powers o'er a woman's body, yes. <br> Stepping out of the page into the sensual world. <br> Stepping out... <br> To where the water and the earth caress <br> And the down on a peach says mmh, Yes...''' ** "The Sensual World"; The lyrics of this song are derived from the last lines of ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' by [[James Joyce]]. Kate had initially wanted to set much of Molly Bloom's Soliloquy to music, just as Joyce had written it, but when the Joyce estate refused, she altered it enough as to not infringe on copyright. As she explained it in an interview: "The song was saying''' "Yes, Yes" '''and when I asked for permission they said''' "No! No!".''' [[File:Sunset Solar Halo at Keys View of Joshua Tree National Park.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Do I look for those millionaires like a Machiavellian girl would when I could wear the sunset?]] * Do I look for those millionaires<br>Like a Machiavellian girl would<br>When I could wear the sunset? * '''You don't need words — just one kiss, then another.''' * '''Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world.'''<br> And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech... * I said, mmh... yes,<br>But not yet, mmh... yes,<br>Mmh... Yes. '''[[w:Love and Anger|Love and Anger]]''' :<small>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ipM__nt8fM Video performance]</small> * '''It lay buried here. It lay deep inside me. <br> It's so deep I don't think that I can speak about it. <br> It could take me all of my life, <br>But it would only take a moment to <br> Tell you what I'm feeling, <br> But I don't know if I'm ready yet. ''' * '''Take away the love and the anger,<br>And a little piece of hope holding us together.<br>Looking for a moment that'll never happen,<br>Living in the gap between past and future.'''<br>Take away the stone and the timber,<br>And a little piece of rope won't hold it together. * If you can't tell your sister,<br>If you can't tell a priest,<br>'Cause it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it<br>To anyone,<br>Can you tell it to your heart?<br>Can you find it in your heart<br> To let go of these feelings... * We could be like two strings beating,<br>Speaking in sympathy... * We're building a house of the future together.<br>(What would we do without you?) * You might not, not think so now,<br>But just you wait and see — someone will come to help you. [[File:Fog-towerbridge.700px.jpg|144px|thumb|right| I can't let you go. If I let you go, you slip into the fog...]] '''The Fog''' * '''Just like a photograph,<br>I pick you up.<br>Just like a station on the radio,<br>I pick you up.''' * Just like a feeling that you're sending out,<br>I pick it up.<br>But I can't let you go.<br>'''If I let you go,<br>You slip into the fog...''' * '''This love was big enough for the both of us.<br>This love of yours was big enough to be frightened of.<br>It's deep and dark, like the water was,<br>The day I learned to swim.''' * '''Is this love big enough to watch over me?<br>Big enough to let go of me<br>Without hurting me,<br>Like the day I learned to swim?''' '''Reaching Out''' [[File:Reach for the stars.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Reaching out for the Star.<br>Reaching out for the Star that explodes.<br>Reaching out for Mama.]] :<small>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Be_ITyTMzc Youtube video]</small> * '''See how the child reaches out instinctively<br>To feel how fire will feel.<br> See how the man reaches out instinctively<br>For what he cannot have.'''<br> ''The pull and the push of it all.'' * Reaching out for that hand to hold.<br>Reaching out for the Star.<br>Reaching out for the Star that explodes.<br>Reaching out for Mama. * See how the flower leans instinctively<br>Toward the light.<br> See how the heart reaches out instinctively<br>For no reason but to touch... '''Heads We're Dancing''' * They say that the Devil is a charming man.<br>And just like you I bet he can dance. * Well, I couldn't see what was to be,<br>So I just stood there laughing. [[File:Imac G5 20inch.jpg|144px|thumb|right|I need deeper understanding.<br>Give me deeper understanding...]] '''Deeper Understanding''' :<small>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wDDxM1F4xY Youtube video]</small> * '''As the people here grow colder I turn to my computer <br> And spend my evenings with it <br> Like a friend. ''' * ''Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired.<br>I bring you love and deeper understanding.<br>Hello, I know that you're unhappy.<br>I bring you love and deeper understanding....'' * I turn to my computer like a friend.<br>'''I need deeper understanding.<br>Give me deeper understanding...''' '''Between A Man And A Woman''' :<small>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orBTGQep1Ts Youtube video]</small> [[File:Picture couple pregnant woman.jpg|144px|thumb|right|He said it was her fault.<br>She said it wasn't at all.<br>But the truth lies somewhere in the middle.]] * He said it was her fault.<br>She said it wasn't at all.<br>But the truth lies somewhere in the middle. * '''Where [[angels]] fear to tread,<br>You go rushing in.'''<br> Stay out of this<br>You must not interfere<br>Don't you see this is<br>Between a man and a woman? '''Never Be Mine''' * I look at you and see<br>my life that might have been<br>your face just ghostly in the smoke.<br>They're setting fire to the cornfields<br>as you're taking me home.<br>The smell of burning fields<br>will now mean you and here. * '''This is where I want to be.<br>This is what I need.<br>This is where I want to be,<br>But I know that this will never be mine.''' * I want you as the dream,<br>Not the reality.<br>That clumsy good-bye kiss could fool me.<br>But looking back over my shoulder<br>at you happy without me. * The thrill and the hurting<br>Will never be mine. '''Rocket's Tail''' [[File:010712 STS104 Atlantis launch glow.jpg|144px|thumb|right|I saw only a stick on fire,<br>Alone on its journey<br>Home to the quickening ground,<br>With no one there to catch it.]] * I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing.<br> I saw only a stick on fire,<br>Alone on its journey<br>Home to the quickening ground,<br>With no one there to catch it. * I am a rocket<br>On fire.<br>Look at me go, with my tail on fire... '''This Woman's Work''' :<small>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TupvVpxY_U Video]</small> * '''I know you have a little life in you yet.<br>I know you have a lot of strength left.''' * '''I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.<br>I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking<br> Of all the things I should've said,<br>That I never said.<br>All the things we should've done,<br>That we never did.<br>All the things I should've given,<br>But I didn't.''' '''Walk Straight Down The Middle''' * We're calling out for Middle Street. * '''We hang on to every line,<br>And walk straight down the middle of it.''' * He thought he was gonna die,<br>But he didn't.<br>She thought she just couldn't cope,<br>But she did.<br>'''We thought it would be so hard,<br>But it wasn't...<br>It wasn't easy, though!''' === ''[[w:The Red Shoes (album)|The Red Shoes]]'' (1993) === :<small>[http://gaffa.org/sensual/tsw_trs.html Full lyrics online]</small> '''[[w:Rubberband Girl|Rubberband Girl]]''' * '''See those trees<br>Bend in the wind<br>I feel they've got a lot more sense than me<br>You see I try to resist...''' * A rubberband bouncing back to life<br>A rubberband bend the beat<br>If I could learn to give like a rubberband<br>I'd be back on my feet... '''[[w:And So Is Love|And So Is Love]]''' - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLHLPbEQ-hE Performance on ''Top of the Pops'' (1994)] * '''We let it in<br>We give it out<br>And in the end<br>What's it all about?<br>It must be love.''' * '''We used to say<br>"Ah Hell, we're young"<br>But now we see that life is sad<br>''And so is love.'' ''' * What really matters?<br>It's all we've got<br>Isn't that enough? * '''All for love<br>Just for the sake of love.''' [[File:Pomegranate02 edit.jpg|144px|thumb|right| What am I singing? A song of seeds — The food of love. Eat the music.]] '''[[w:Eat the Music|Eat the Music]]''' * '''Split me open<br>With devotion<br>You put your hands in<br>And rip my heart out<br>''Eat the music.'' ''' * All is revealed<br>Not only women bleed. * '''What am I singing?<br>A song of seeds<br>The food of love.<br>Eat the music.''' '''[[w:Moments of Pleasure|Moments of Pleasure]]''' * I think about us diving<br>Diving off a rock, into another moment... * '''Just being alive<br>It can really hurt<br>These moments given<br>Are a gift from time.<p>Just let us try<br>To give these moments back<br>To those we love<br>To those who will survive...''' * And I can hear my mother saying<br>"Every old sock meets an old shoe"<br>Isn't that a great saying? * Here come the Hills of Time '''Song of Solomon''' * '''The Song of Solomon<br>The song of everyone<br>Who walks the path<br>Of the solitary heart.''' * '''The soul cries out<br>Hear a woman singing<br> Don't want your bullshit, yeah<br>Just want your sexuality.<br>Don't want excuses, yeah<br>Write me your poetry in motion<br>Write it just for me, yeah<br>And sign it with a kiss. * I'll do it for you<br>I'll be the Rose of Sharon for you<br> Ooh I'll come in a hurricane for you<br>I'll do it for you... [[File:The Golden Bough - by Jeroen van Valkenburg.PNG|144px|thumb|right|Unveil to us the face of the true spiritual sun<br>Hidden by a disc of golden light<br>That we may know the truth<br>And do our whole duty...]] [[File:Franz von Stuck 003.jpg|144px|thumb|right| Gabriel before me, Raphael behind me, Michael to my right, Uriel on my left side... In the circle of fire...]] '''Lily''' * ''Oh thou, who givest sustenance to the universe<br>From whom all things proceed<br>To whom all things return<br>Unveil to us the face of the true spiritual sun<br>Hidden by a disc of golden light<br>That we may know the truth<br>And do our whole duty<br>As we journey to thy sacred feet'' ** Recited by "Lily" * I said<br>"Lily, Oh Lily I'm so afraid<br>I fear I am walking in the Veil of Darkness"<br>And she said<br>"Child, take what I say<br>With a pinch of salt<br>And protect yourself with fire" * Gabriel before me<br>Raphael behind me<br>Michael to my right<br>Uriel on my left side<br>In the circle of fire. '''[[w:The Red Shoes (song)|The Red Shoes]]''' [[File:Solistin Jovana Ivanovic.jpg|144px|thumb|right|She said "just take off my red shoes<br>Put them on and your dream'll come true..]] * '''With no words, with no song<br>You can dance the dream with your body on<br>And this curve, is your smile<br>And this cross, is your heart<br>And this line, is your path<br> Oh it's gonna be the way you always thought it would be<br>But it's gonna be no illusion<br>Oh it's gonna be the way you always dreamt about it<br>But it's gonna be really happening to ya...''' * Feel your hair come tumbling down<br>Feel your feet start kissing the ground<br>Feel your arms are opening out<br>And see your eyes are lifted to God<br>'''With no words, with no song<br>I'm gonna dance the dream<br>And make the dream come true...''' [[File:St Michael Berlin Engel Statue Kiss.JPG|144px|thumb|right| I don't know if I'm closer to Heaven but<br>It looks like Hell down there...]] '''Top of the City''' * '''I don't know if I'm closer to Heaven but<br>It looks like Hell down there.'''<br>These streets have never been paved with gold. * It's no good for you baby<br>It's no good for you now<br>Keep looking up for the ladder. * I don't mind if it's dangerous<br>I don't mind if it's raining<br>Take me up to the top of the city<br> And put me up on the [[Angels|angel]]'s shoulders. '''Constellation of the Heart''' * We take all the telescopes<br>And we turn them inside out<br>And we point them away from the big sky.<br>Put your eye right up to the glas.<br>Here we'll find the constellation of the heart. <br> '''Steer your life by these stars<br>On the unconditional chance<br>'Tis here where Hell and Heaven dance.<br>This is the constellation of the heart.''' * Well we think you'd better wake up capt'n<br>There's something happen'n up ahead<br>We've never seen anything like it<br>We've never seen anything like it before. * Who said anything about it hurting?<br>It's gonna be beautiful<br>It's gonna be wonderful<br>It's gonna be paradise. * Ooh find me the man with the ladder<br>And he might lift me up to the stars. * ''Without the pain there'd be no learning<br>Without the hurting we'd never change.'' '''Big Stripey Lie''' [[File:Louvre renommée mr1824.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Your name is being called by sacred things<br>That are not addressed nor listened to<br>Sometimes they blow trumpets.]] * '''All young gentle dreams drowning<br>In life's grief<br>Can you hang on to me?''' * '''Your name is being called by sacred things<br>That are not addressed nor listened to.<br>Sometimes they blow trumpets.''' * Hey all you little waves run away.<br>Mmm... run away. '''Why Should I Love You?''' [[File:Vittore Carpaccio 075.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Have you ever seen a picture<br>Of Jesus laughing?<br>Mmm, do you think<br>He had a beautiful smile?<br>A smile that healed.]] * This chapter says<br>"Put it out of your mind"<br>Mmm, give it time.... * The fine purple<br>The purest gold<br>The red of the Sacred Heart<br>The grey of a ghost<br>The "L" of the lips are open<br>To the "O" of the Host<br>The "V" of the velvet<br>The "E" of my eye<br>'''The eye in wonder<br>The eye that sees<br>The "I" that loves you.''' * Have you ever seen a picture<br>Of Jesus laughing?<br>Mmm, do you think<br>He had a beautiful smile?<br>A smile that healed. '''You're the One''' * '''Let's change things.<br>Let's danger it up.<br>We're crazy enough. <br>I just can't take it. * You're the only one I want... * I know where I'm going.<br>But I don't want to leave.<br>I just have one problem<br>We're best friends, yeah?<br>We tied ourselves in knots<br>Doing cartwheels 'cross the floor<br>Just forget it alright. === ''[[w:Aerial (album)|Aerial]]'' (2005) === :<small>[http://gaffa.org/sensual/tsw_aerial.html Full lyrics online] </small> ==== A Sea of Honey (Disc 1) ==== [[File:Elvis Presley 1970.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Elvis are you out there somewhere<br>Looking like a happy man?]] '''[[w:King of the Mountain (song)|King of the Mountain]]''' * '''Could you see the aisles of women? <br>Could you see them screaming and weeping?<br>Could you see the storm rising? <br>Could you see the guy who was driving?<br>Could you climb higher and higher? <br>Could you climb right over the top?''' * Elvis are you out there somewhere<br>Looking like a happy man? <br>In the snow with ''Rosebud'' <br>And King of the Mountain. * Another Hollywood waitress<br>Is telling us she's having your baby<br>And there's a rumour that you're on ice<br>And you will rise again someday. ''' [[File:PP 1280x1024.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Sweet and gentle and sensitive man<br>With an obsessive nature and deep fascination<br>For numbers...]] '''π''' * '''Sweet and gentle and sensitive man<br>With an obsessive nature and deep fascination<br>For numbers<br>And a complete infatuation with the calculation<br>Of π.''' [[File:Pi-unrolled slow.gif|144px|thumb|right|He does love his numbers<br>And they run, they run, they run him<br>In a great big circle<br>In a circle of infinity...]] * He does love his numbers<br>And they run, they run, they run him<br>In a great big circle<br>In a circle of infinity<br>3.14159 26535897932 3846 264 338 3279... '''Bertie''' * '''Here comes the sunshine<br>Here comes that son of mine<br>Here comes the everything<br>Here's a song and a song for him. * You bring me so much joy<br>And then you bring me<br>More joy... '''Mrs. Bartolozzi''' * Oh and the waves are going out<br>Oh and the waves are coming in<br>Out of the corner of my eye<br>I think I see you standing outside<br>But it's just your shirt<br>Hanging on the washing line<br>Waving it's arm as the wind blows by<br>And it looks so alive<br>Nice and white<br>Just like it's climbed right out<br>of my washing machine... '''How To Be Invisible''' * '''I found a book on how to be invisible<br>You take a pinch of keyhole,<br>And fold yourself up,<br>You cut along the dotted lines.<br>You think inside out.<br>You're invisible.''' [[File:Joan-of-Arc-Paris.jpg|144px|thumb|right| [[Joan of Arc|Joanni]] wears a golden cross and she looks so beautiful in her armour...]] '''[[Joan of Arc|Joanni]]''' * '''All the banners stop waving<br>And the flags stop flying<br>And the silence comes over<br>Thousands of soldiers...''' * '''Who is that girl? Do I know her face?''' * Joanni, Joanni wears a golden cross<br>And she looks so beautiful in her armour<br>Joanni, Joanni blows a kiss to God<br>And she never wears a ring on her finger... '''A Coral Room''' * There's a city, draped in net<br>Fisherman net<br>And in the half light, in the half light<br>It looks like every tower<br>Is covered in webs<br>Moving and glistening and rocking<br>It's babies in rhythm<br>As the spider of time is climbing<br>Over the ruins. * Put your hand over the side of the boat<br>What do you feel? * My mother and her little brown jug<br>It held her milk<br>And now it holds our memories... ==== A Sky of Honey (Disc 2) ==== [[File:Sturnella neglecta2.jpg|144px|thumb|right|We're gonna be laughing about this<br>We're gonna be dancing around<br>It's gonna be so good now.]] '''Prelude''' * Mummy...<br>Daddy...<br>The day is full of birds<br>Sounds like they're saying words... ** Spoken by Bush's son, Berty. '''Prologue''' * We're gonna be laughing about this<br>We're gonna be dancing around<br>It's gonna be so good now. * It's gonna be so good now<br>It's gonna be so good<br>Can you see the lark ascending? * Oh will you come with us<br>To find the song of the oil and the brush? '''An Architect's Dream''' [[File:Psyche et LAmour.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Watching the painter painting<br>And all the time, the light is changing<br>And he keeps painting...]] * Watching the painter painting<br>And all the time, the light is changing<br>And he keeps painting<br>That bit there, it was an accident<br>But he's so pleased<br>It's the best mistake, he could make<br>And it's my favourite piece.<br>It's just great. '''The Painter's Link''' [[File:Blackbird-sunset-03.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Who knows who wrote that song of summer,<br>That blackbirds sing at dusk...]] * So all the colours run<br>See what they have become<br>A wonderful sunset '''Sunset''' * '''Who knows who wrote that song of summer,<br>That blackbirds sing at dusk,<br>This is a song of colour,<br>Where sands sing in crimson, red and rust,<br>Then climb into bed and turn to dust. ''' * Every sleepy light<br>Must say goodbye<br>To the day before it dies<br>In a sea of honey<br>A sky of honey<br>Keep us close to your heart<br>So if the skies turn dark<br>We may live on in<br>Comets and stars. '''Somewhere In Between''' * '''It was just so beautiful. * '''This is where the shadows come to play twixt the day<br>And night<br>Dancing and skipping<br>Along a chink of light * Somewhere in between<br>The waxing and the waning wave<br>Somewhere in between<br>What the song and the silence says<br>Somewhere in between<br>The ticking and the tocking clock<br>Somewhere in a dream between<br>Sleep and waking up<br>Somewhere in between<br>Breathing out and breathing in<br>Like twilight is neither night nor morning * Not one of us would dare to break<br>The silence<br>And, oh how we have longed<br>For something that would<br>Make us feel so... '''Nocturn''' * Could be in a dream<br>Our clothes are on the beach<br>These prints of our feet<br>Lead right up to the sea<br>No one, no one is here<br>'''No one, no one is here<br>We stand in the Atlantic<br>We become panoramic...''' * The stars are caught in our hair<br>The stars are on our fingers<br>A veil of diamond dust<br>Just reach up and touch it<br>'''The sky's above our heads<br>The sea's around our legs<br>In milky, silky water<br>We swim further and further...''' [[File:Sunrise-Daytona-Beach-FL.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Oh the dawn has come<br>And the song must be sung<br>And the flowers are melting.<br>What kind of language is this?]] * We dive deeper and deeper<br>Could be we are here<br>Could be in my dream<br>It came up on the horizon<br>Rising and rising<br>In a sea of honey, a sky of honey. [[File:SwansCygnus olor edit2.jpg|144px|thumb|right|All of the birds are laughing<br>Come on let's all join in.]] * Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial<br>All the time it's a changing, like now... * '''All the time it's a changing<br>And all the dreamers are waking.''' '''Aerial''' * '''Oh the dawn has come<br>And the song must be sung<br>And the flowers are melting.<br>What kind of language is this?''' * I can't hear a word you're saying<br>Tell me what are you singing<br>In the sun * '''All of the birds are laughing<br>Come on let's all join in.''' === ''[[w:50 Words for Snow|50 Words for Snow]]'' (2011) === [[File:Metatrons cube.svg|144px|thumb|right|I was born in a cloud...<br> Now I am falling.<br> I want you to catch me.]] [[File:Heart in snow.jpg|144px|thumb|right|We've been in love forever.]]<!-- [[File:Ka symbol.svg|144px|thumb|right|Only you can do something about it. <br> There's no-one there, my friend, any better.]] --> [[File:Cloches du soir.jpg|144px|thumb|right|I can see [[angels]] standing around you. <br> They shimmer like mirrors in Summer. <br> But you don't know it.]] [[File:Sq door handle.jpg|144px|thumb|right| There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it.]] '''Snowflake''' * '''I was born in a cloud...<br> Now I am falling.<br> I want you to catch me.'''<br> Look up and you'll see me. <br> You know you can hear me. <br> The world is so loud. Keep falling. I'll find you. * '''I am ice and dust. I am sky.''' <br> I can see horses wading through snowdrifts.<br> My broken hearts, my fabulous dances. <br> My fleeting song, fleeting. <br> The world is so loud. Keep falling. I'll find you. '''[[w:Wild Man (Kate Bush song)|Wild Man]]''' * Lying in my tent <br> I can hear your cry<br> Echoing round the mountainside<br> You sound lonely * You climbed up on the roof<br> Roof of the world<br> You were pulling up the rhododendrons<br> Loping down the mountain <p> They want to know you <br> They will hunt you down <br> Then they will kill you <br> Run away, run away '''Snowed In at Wheeler Street''' * Excuse me I'm sorry to bother you,<br> But don't I know you? <br> There's just something about you. <br> Haven't we met before? <p> '''We've been in love forever.''' * When we got on top of the hill, <br> We saw Rome burning. <br> I just let you walk away. <br> I've never forgiven myself. * And I'd never know where you'd gonna be next <br> But I'd know that you'd surprise me. '''Among Angels''' * Only you can do something about it. <br> There's no-one there, my friend, any better. * '''Aren't we all the same? In and out of doubt. <br> I can see [[angels]] standing around you.''' <br> They shimmer like mirrors in Summer. <br> But you don't know it. <br> And they will carry you o'er the walls. <br> If you need us, just call. * '''There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it.''' <br> You might feel it and just not show it. === Singles and rarities === [[File:Mourning angel.jpg|144px|thumb|right| All the worlds they've shown you <br>Just make you even greedier...]] '''Disbelieving Angel''' (unreleased demo, c. 1973) :<small> [http://www.dongrays.com/kate-bush/song/tda.html Full text online]</small> * '''So much for all the prayers you've learned.<br>They are no help to basic needs. <br>And all the worlds they've shown you <br>Just make you even greedier.''' * I feel so sorry for you, <br>Believing because they control. <br>And of all the guardian [[angels]] <br>They chose me to save your soul! <br>'''Oh, I'm just trying to explain, <br>I'm a disbelieving angel.''' '''Passing Through Air''' (1978) * '''Passing through air.<br>You mix the stars with your arms.'''<br>Walking through there.<br>The doom of eternity balms.<br>Skies of grey are not today. * Oh! Don't you throw my love away,<br>I need your loving, I need your loving... ''' The Magician''' (1979) * '''When you reach for a [[Stars|star]] <br> Only [[angels]] are there <br> And it's not very far <br> Just a step on a stair <br> Take a look at those [[clowns]] <br> And the tricks that they play <br> In the circus of life <br> Life is bitter and gay <p> There are clowns in the night <br> Clowns everywhere <br> See how they run <br> Run from despair … ** This was a song written for the soundtrack of ''[[w:The Magician of Lublin (film)|The Magician of Lublin]]'' (1979), based on the 1960 novel by [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]]; Kate's singing of it appears at times in the background within the film - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkfbkVKmbG0 YouTube video] * When the [[fantasy]] bells <br> Of the [[universe]] ring <br> You can fly through the [[sky]] <br>On a dragonfly's wing. <br> '''There is [[magic]] within <br> There is magic without <br> Follow me and you'll learn <br> Just what life's all about.''' '''[[w:December Will Be Magic Again|December Will Be Magic Again]]''' (1980) * ''[[December]] will be [[magic]] again.'' <br> Take a husky to the ice <br> While [[w:Bing Crosby|Bing Crosby]] sings [[w:White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]. <br> He makes you feel nice. <br> '''December will be magic again.''' * See how I fall like the snow,<br> Come to cover the lovers,<br> (But don't you wake them up)<br> Come to sparkle the dark up, <br> With just a touch of make up.<br> Come to cover the muck up. <br> ''' Ooh with a little luck — <br> December will be magic again. ''' * December will be magic again. <br> Don't miss the brightest star,<br> Kiss under mistletoe,<br> '''I want to hear you laugh,<br> Don't let the mystery go now.''' [[File:Rosa sp.181.jpg|144px|thumb|right| Go right to the rose. Go right to the white rose ...]] '''Warm And Soothing''' (1980) * Warm and soothing<br> That's how I remember home. <br> Walking into arms through the back door<br> Hearing voices I know well and long for. * I'm reeling in the music,<br> And I've only had a few...<br> And I'm afraid by the way we grow old...<br> My darling... '''Under the Ivy''' (1985) [[File:Efeu Blatt.JPG|144px|thumb|right| It's not easy for me to give away a secret — It's not safe…]] * '''This little girl inside me <br> Is retreating to her favourite place. <br> Go into the garden. <br> Go under the ivy, <br> Under the leaves, <br> Away from the party. <br> Go right to the rose. <br> Go right to the white rose <br> (For me.)''' * ''' It's not easy for me <br> To give away a secret — <br> It's not safe…''' [[File:Turner-The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons.jpg|144px|thumb|right| As we cross the bridge — the burning bridge — With flames behind us, We front the line. It's you and me, baby, against the world.]] '''Burning Bridge''' (1985) * ''' I know it works for me. <br> As we cross the bridge — the burning bridge — <br> With flames behind us, <br> We front the line. <br> It's you and me, baby, against the world.''' '''Be Kind To My Mistakes''' (1986) :<small>Song for the film [[w:Castaway (Lucy Irvine)|''Castaway'' (1986)]]; later included in the collection ''This Woman's Work''</small> * '''I don't know you, <br>And you don't know me. <br>It is this that brings us together. ''' '''You Want Alchemy''' (B-side of [[w:The Red Shoes (song)|The Red Shoes]] single) (4 April 1994) [[File:Winged Sun alchemical.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Did you know they can change it all? <br> They got [[alchemy]].]] * What a lovely afternoon <br> On a [[w:Cloudbusting|cloudbusting]] kind of day. <br> We took our own 'Mystery Tour' <br> And got completely lost somewhere up in the hills. <p> And we came up on a bee-keeper, <br> And he said "'''Did you know they can change it all?'''" * '''They got [[alchemy]].''' <br> They turn the roses into gold <br> They turn the lilac into honey <br> They're making love for the peaches. <p> '''And they'll do it, <br> Do it for you.''' == Quotes about Kate Bush == :<small>Arranged alphabetically by author.</small> [[File:Emilybronte retouche.jpg|144px|thumb|right|People often arrive at the Brontë novels through that song. ~ Alan Bentley]] * '''One of the main things that brings people to the Brontë Museum from all over the world is Kate Bush.''' We have copies of her No 1 hit single " Wuthering Heights" in our collection of [[Emily Brontë|Brontë]]-related items. '''People often arrive at the Brontë novels through that song.''' ** Alan Bentley, director of the [http://www.bronte.org.uk/Brontë Parsonage Museum] * To me, Kate Bush will always represent the age of exploring your sexuality, when you change from a girl to a woman. I guess that's what I found fascinating about Kate, she totally stuck out. She created her own look and sound. There's a timelessness to her music. ** [[Björk]] * I think she is still relevant. It's nice to see people reinvent themselves. She was a great performer and a great singer. I like that song, you know the one, "It's me, I'm Cathy..." I love that song. I remember listening to it growing up. ** [[w:Mutya Buena|Mutya Buena]] of [[w:Sugababes|Sugababes]] * '''I know this may give her a mystique and make the press all the more curious about her, but that's not the intention; it's not a ploy to get her more attention. She genuinely doesn't see why people should be interested in her personal life and she certainly doesn't like going out to clubs or trendy restaurants. It's just not her.''' ** Paddy Bush, Kate's brother. * For me, it's not important how well the songs will be received because I think she's already an amazing influence in what she's done. I listen to her stuff a lot while I sketch and I think there is a weird sense of emotional encouragement in her work. There's something therapeutic in her voice and in her attitude, so that sometimes just listening to it can encourage you or give you some kind of energy. ** [http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/fashion/catwalk-archive/lfw-ss01/hc.html Hussein Chalayan, fashion designer] * I didn't realise how commercially successful she might be. I thought of her more really, I suppose, in the terms of someone like [[Joni Mitchell]] — the level of a lady who's very talented, but would appeal to a more esoteric audience. But she had different ideas. ** [[David Gilmour]] of [[w:Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd]] who helped Kate's career get started. * One of music's most reclusive and enigmatic figures has re-emerged into what some have seen as a rich era for British female singer-songwriters. Bush's new double album, ''Aerial'', is due out in November, only her eighth after three decades in the business. It will be treated with due reverence. ** Terry Kirby in [http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article309691.ece ''The Independent''] ([[2005-09-02]]) * That's a song where we were listening to a lot of Kate Bush last summer, and we wanted a song which had a lot of tom-toms in it,I just had my daughter up also, and was kind of feeling in a sense of awe and wonderment, so the song is kind of a Kate Bush song about miracles. ** [[Chris Martin]], on the links between [[Coldplay]]'s song "Speed of Sound" and Kate Bush's "[[w:Running Up That Hill|Running up that Hill (A Deal with God)]]". He later said "we tried to copy the drums, guitar, melody....etc" * '''Of course she's still relevant. I wasn't actually in the country when her music first came out, so I only discovered it three or four years ago. What's amazing is that something like "Wuthering Heights" still sounds so different.''' I actually saw her about nine months ago, we were just passing at an industry event and I went up to her and said I was a big fan and asked her about the new record. She was really excited about it but quite nervous because she felt that everyone was hyping it up a bit and she just wanted to bring out an album. You know, she's a musician. ** [[Katie Melua]] * Her music remains reassuringly the same ecstatic alchemy of the humdrum and otherworldly. Recalling the hello-clouds wonder of The Big Sky from 1985's ''Hounds of Love'' or the frank paean to menstruation that is Strange Phenomena from her debut, ''The Kick Inside'', ''Aerial'' finds Bush marvelling in the magic of the everyday: the wind animating a skirt hanging on a clothes line, the trace of footprints leading into the sea, the indecipherable codes of birdsong. ** ''MOJO'' magazine as quoted in [http://www.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,16373,1601608,00.html ''The Guardian''] ([[2005-10-28]]) * '''I simply think she is one of the greatest figures in British music over the last 30 years. There are an awful lot of people in the business wandering around claiming to be artists, but she is one of the few who can genuinely make that claim... I don't think there is any competition, she's on a different level and quite outside them all.''' ** Paul Rees, editor of ''Q'' Magazine, as quoted in ''The Independent'' ([[2005-09-02]]) * '''With a voice you either love or hate, she belts out a song with a desperation that grabs you and won't let go.''' ** Amy Standen in [http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/03/20/kate_bush/print.html ''Salon''] ([[2001-03-20]]) * I'm really looking forward to Kate Bush's return — I'm no expert on her work but I know some of it and I think she's an incredibly original and talented artist. Anyone who writes most of an album like her first album, ''The Kick Inside'', at 15 years old has got to be pretty special. ** [[w:KT Tunstall|KT Tunstall]] * '''When EMI invites a group of journalists to the Royal Academy of Music, in London, for a one-off listen to Kate Bush's new album, they are sending a clear signal — this album is not to be dismissed lightly.''' ** Darren Waters in a BBC Review: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4386346.stm Kate Bush's ''Aerial''] ([[2005-10-28]]) * ''A Sky of Honey'' is, in a sense, a lyric poem set to music. Full of lush, fecund melodies which swing from jazz to rock, it is threaded through with bird song and chatter and feels distinctly organic and earthy.... Side two is the album Pink Floyd might have made if Kate Bush had been their lead singer and lyricist in 1979. ** Darren Waters in a BBC Review: Kate Bush's ''Aerial''] ([[2005-10-28]]) ** '''Bush has written a lyric poem set to music, which has an epic quality, transporting the listener to a deeply lush and fertile landscape.''' Lyrically cryptic, but strangely seductive, side two is the album [[w:Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd]] might have made in 1979 if Bush had been their lead singer.<br> '''Concept albums are not everyone's cup of tea — but this is a masterpiece.''' *** Variant in a later [http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/fprg/ BBC summary review] * ''A Sky of Honey'' is a celebration of song itself, which has a child's joyful lack of inhibition about it — Kate Bush is heard laughing freely towards the end while a young child, possibly her son, is heard several times... Aerial stands alongside The Hounds of Love and The Kick Inside as her finest work. ** Darren Waters in a BBC Review: Kate Bush's ''Aerial''] ([[2005-10-28]]) * I always heard about Kate Bush being considered one of the most influential female artists during the modern era of pop/rock music, but never understood what her appeal was... But when I recently stumbled upon her debut 1978 single, "Wuthering Heights," I found myself spending hours absorbing as much of her pre-1985 material as possible . . . Listening to an early Kate Bush album brings you far, far, away to a dreamworld filled with pixies and love and Peter Pan and pure hearts . . .''' "Wuthering Heights" and the rest of ''The Kick Inside'' display all of Bush's trademarks: a literary consciousness; flourishing, heartfelt waves and the ability to successfully incorporate just about every eccentric vocal style you've never heard into each song.''' ** Jared Wolfe, in ''The Cornell Daily Sun'' ([[2005-10-20]]) * '''Illusion, dance, mime, even magic — the Tour of Life, as it was called, had the lot.''' <br> I shan’t forget the way those [[w:Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd]]-like whale sounds that open The Kick Inside album heralded Kate’s entry to the stage as waves were projected on huge screens and her band launched into Moving. <br> For a split second, the audience thought Kate was lip-synching because there was no microphone, but in pre-dating Madonna by a couple of decades, she was wearing a headset to allow free movement around the stage.<br>Every song from that first album was performed before the switch to stuff from follow-up Lionheart, virtually every number warranting a change of costume and stage set. ... '''The entire show was pure theatre.''' ** Jade Wright, quoting a fan who was at the opening of Kate's one and only musical tour, in [http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/liverpool-arts/2007/10/29/kate-bush-at-the-empire-april-3-1979-100252-20025105/ "Kate Bush at the Empire, April 3, 1979" by Jade Wright in the ''Liverpool Echo'' (29 October 2007)] === The Unique Poetry Of Kate Bush (1985) === :<small>[http://gaffa.org/reaching/i85_hifi.html Review by Sue Hudson] in ''Hi-Fi & Record Review'' (December 1985)</small> * We've been holding our breath for a long time. Three years of playing the old songs and wondering "whatever next?" Would it be even weirder than ''The Dreaming?'' Would it leave more admirers by the wayside, shaking their heads?... The real fans will happily go along for the ride, even if she isn't going the pretty way. * '''Kate journeys into new and exciting territories. She is an original in a music world dominated by cover versions, regressive movements and identikit superstars.''' The direct opposite of the archetypal rock star: compulsively introvert in a world of screaming extraverts, middle-class and deeply English amid England's all-pervasive working class American ethos, boldly feminine in rock's macho climate. '''Her melodic genius and articulate lyrics make the rest seem moronically simplistic.''' * After a thousand songs on the theme of boy-meets-girl-boy-loses-girl or Thatcher's Britain, exposure to her music comes as an imaginative release as we go giddily flying into the limitless possibilities of the poetic viewpoint. Here is talk of whales, of Peter Pan, kites, Houdini, mysticism... '''Acquaintances have observed, "She lives in a world of her own." But it's a world that lives within all of us, and her songs shine light into neglected areas of our minds.''' * Her subjects come tripping from library shelves, television and cinema screens and musty books of fairy tales, the stuff that dreams are made of. She spins tunes that haunt, twist and turn the mind, triggering long forgotten moods. Listening intently to her albums is an experience akin to having a lucid and feverish dream. Jungian symbols of youth, innocence, spiritual escape and the dark, feminine realm abound. Ghosts haunt the black vinyl grooves... But it's not all brooding intensity. There are jokes, too... * '''It's a mischievous paradox that, while rock at its ultra-macho best is exhilarating and energizing, yet just at the moment when it is most strident and loud it leaves you needing something more. Then along comes a shy doctor's daughter from Welling who out-screams the best, out-powers the noisiest and tops it with the satisfying impact of musical and psychological depth. It's almost Wagnerian.''' * '''Her talent was precocious.''' "The Saxophone Song" and "The Man With the Child in His Eyes" were recorded as demo tapes when Kate was still at school. The first album, ''[[w:The Kick Inside|The Kick Inside]]'' (1978), caused tremendous media interest and is still the public's favourite. '''Her voice, criticized at the time, was small and childlike, the range erratic, if impressive. Since then it has improved enormously, deepening and gaining power and flexibility, until now it is a great asset, individual and capable of both subtle and stunning effects.''' * The album ''[[w:Never for Ever|Never for Ever]]'' came next and starts in happy mood, with a summer night of a cha-cha-cha tribute to a new-found hero, "Delius". The philosophic All We Ever Look For creates a remarkable and rare mood of reassurance and upbeat resignation, a Bush specialty . . . The end comes in the horrifying "Breathing", a vision of the nuclear holocaust through the eyes of an unborn child. * On to ''[[w:The Dreaming|The Dreaming]]'', a strange, alien album full of mysticism and obscurantae. Its impact owes much to sheer production quality. Kate has gradually taken over this aspect of her records since Lionheart, and each LP is technically more impressive. Her voice here is forward and strong and, on "Leave It Open", deliberately distorted to create a surreal effect. Get Out of My House is a shattering trip into madness, with a stunning culmination which finds Kate braying like a mule amid a chorus of Indian drum talk. * The new album, ''[[w:Hounds of Love|Hounds of Love]]'', breaks new ground for Kate with the b-side. This is a story — The Ninth Wave — told in a series of songs, like a Pink Floyd concept album. * '''Casual listeners will miss the depth of the music.''' You must sit down with the lyric sheet and find out what's going on. All the vocal acrobatics and weird sounds click into place when you know what ideas, stories and situations they are expressing. In most rock and pop, the music and words may be linked, but are basically separate. '''Kate creates, more and more, a fusion between the two — the sounds directly expressing the subject.''' This is a throwback to Wagner's music-drama, with its leitmotifs, turning music into an idea. The Beatles revived the technique, and bands of the hippy era like Pink Floyd carried the banner. . . Kate is fast becoming a master in the use of this sonic montage, perhaps because the ideas she is using are far more complex, have more "resonances", than those of her contemporaries. * '''Kate will never be an academic artist, drily applying intellectual music theory to the delight of a handful of peers, forging into new areas for the sake of "progress". Her style is personal, individual, impressionistic. Like Delius, her music will always flow from poetic necessity, breaking from the confines of tradition because expression demands it.''' I just hope that she will have the confidence to follow her instincts and not be discouraged by the music press, who in the main are baffled and annoyed by her uniqueness. Unable to pigeon-hole her music, they turn instead to ridicule and condescension to fill the pages. Which is a disservice to the British public who, to their undying credit, have made Kate Bush such a popular success. ===Kate Bush rules, OK? (2005) === [[File:Let Love Rule.jpg|144px|thumb|right|Although she had piano and violin lessons at school, Bush is essentially self-taught.]] :<small>Article by [[w:Michael Berkeley|Michael Berkeley]], published in [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1589379,00.html ''The Guardian''] ([[2005-10-11]])</small> * When the conductor Richard Hickox rang me one day in 1984 to ask if I could help with a rather unusual job for which he and his choir had been engaged, I was intrigued. Kate Bush, it transpired, was working on her new album, ''Hounds of Love'', and for one track, Hello Earth, she wanted a chorus to recreate the orthodox singing/chanting that made such a contribution to the film ''[[Nosferatu]]''. * '''I had always considered Kate Bush truly original both as a performer and as a songwriter with an unusually fresh sense of harmony.''' If her new album next month is awaited with some excitement after a long fallow period, then in 1985 it was assumed that ''[[w:Hounds of Love|Hounds of Love]]'' would be something of a final fling at the conclusion of a waning career. '''I soon realised how wrong this assumption was when Kate sent me a cassette''': it was zany, ambitious and yet utterly Kate Bush, but with gaps where I was to do her bidding. Having chatted at length, she sent me a long letter with the words of the song and precise instructions on how it should unfold...''' Structure was carefully delineated, verses and choruses written out fully and marked up in colour, and she talked of the sound quality in the most graphic terms.''' * '''Although she had piano and violin lessons at school, Bush is essentially self-taught.''' I have always been fascinated by the difference of dynamics at work between popular artists and conventionally trained classical musicians, and had a similar experience with [[The Edge|the Edge]], of [[U2]], when we worked together on the score of a film called ''Captive''. '''In fact, gifted "pop" musicians like Bush and U2 are far more demanding of themselves in the studio than classical musicians can afford to be, and will spend days working on a tiny fragment.''' * Come the recording day, a group of male choristers, more accustomed to singing church services than backing vocals, descended on Bush's home, which was equipped with its own studio. Doubtless they were imagining that they were about to meet a wild-eyed rock babe, but Kate, quiet and unassuming — the kind of sympathetic, slightly shy girl who greets you from behind the counter at the local chemist — introduced us to her friend the bass player [[w:Del Palmer|Del Palmer]], who engineered the session. None of the singers or Richard had ever gone over and over four or five phrases so exactingly. No measure of Bach or Mozart had, in their experience, been subjected to such surgical scrutiny, and I began to worry that their voices might begin to tire. '''But Bush knew and got what she wanted and "Hello Earth" is, I think, a remarkable track on the album that finally broke the American market and established her as an iconic and hugely influential figure. I can't wait to hear what she has been up to now.''' === Kate Bush: Finally, something for the grown-ups (2005) === :<small>''The Independent'' ([[2005-10-21]])</small> * '''Such is the idiosyncratic nature of her work that she could probably disappear for a half-century and still sustain her own unique position in the pop firmament.''' But then, who else would write about an obsessive-compulsive housewife or attempt a vocal duet with trilling birds, or, in the most courageous of the album's many unusual strategies, sing huge strings of numbers, a gambit that brings new meaning to the old critic's chestnut about being happy to listen to someone singing the telephone directory? * Many years ago, back near the start of her career, she regarded the domestic demands of motherhood as a dubious prospect, claiming her work was her love, and how could she do that and bring up a child at the same time? The answer, presumably, was not to work for a dozen years. * She has always freely admitted being like a little girl in many ways, and furthermore, happily presumes she'll still be that way in her dotage. It's certainly still a factor on ''Aerial'' , both in the track "Bertie" itself and in the memories and reminiscences that cobweb some other songs. But compared to the darker corners of the mind sometimes mined in earlier songs, the new album seems a much sunnier affair: an enduring image I took away from it — not necessarily a lyric, though it might have been — was of windows flung wide open, their curtains billowing out in the breeze, a room's long-dormant dust stirred into life again. * She's unafraid, too, of tackling more problematic areas of sexuality, as for instance when she dealt with cradle-snatching in "The Infant Kiss" and incest in "The Kick Inside". But not all that seems erotic in her music is about sex, as an EMI employee discovered when he found her working on the hypnotic "out-in-out-in" chant section of "Breathing" (from 1980's ''Never For Ever''), and expressed outrage at EMI's young pop princess making such an overtly sexual record. The song is, of course, about breathing. Duhhh! * At around an hour and a half, Aerial is unquestionably a substantial piece of work, and its manifold peculiarities and quirks offer much more interesting fare than that available from today's AOR mainstream. It's also a more mature undertaking than any of her previous albums, an extended meditation on art and light, fame and family, creativity and the natural world. Indeed it seems, come to think of it, like an expansion of the theme of Laura Veirs' gorgeous "Rapture". And since that was the finest song of last year, I'd have to say that leaves Kate Bush still operating at the cutting-edge of intelligent adult pop, every bit as relevant now as at any point in her career. Just a little bit weirder, thank heavens. === Admit it, guys, she's a genius (2005) === [[File:Genius logo.png|144px|thumb|right|For me, Kate Bush was always a trump card when the tiresome 'question' of female artistic [[genius]] came up.]] :<small>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1604281,00.html Article by Kitty Empire, in ''The Observer''] ([[2005-10-30]])</small> * '''For me, Kate Bush was always a trump card when the tiresome 'question' of female artistic [[genius]] came up.''' ... Before disgust stopped me getting dragged into these skirmishes, I had a ready arsenal of Girl Greats — [[Patti Smith]], [[Björk]], [[w:Nina Simone|Nina Simone]], [[w:Delia Derbyshire|Delia Derbyshire]], [[w:Polly Harvey|Polly Harvey]], and so on. And yet, there would often be some caveat why genius eluded my candidates (ripped off Dylan etc). '''Until we would get to Kate. Female genius? Kate Bush. End of. <br> ''Aerial'', the first Kate Bush album in a young lifetime (12 years), re-establishes the fact. It is extraordinary — jaw-dropping, no less.''' * ''Aerial'' succeeds because it's all there for a reason. And because the good stuff is just so sublime. 'King of the Mountain', Bush's Elvis-inspired single, is both a fine opener and a total red herring. Bush's juices really get going on 'Pi', a sentimental ode to a mathematician, audacious in both subject matter and treatment. The chorus is the number sung to many, many decimal places. It's closely followed by a gushing ode to Bush's son, Bertie, that's stark and medieval-sounding. The rest of disc one (aka ''A Sea of Honey'') sets a very high bar for disc two, with the Joan of Arc-themed 'Joanni' and the downright poppy 'How to Be Invisible' raising the hair on your arms into a Mexican wave. <br> Disc two, subtitled ''A Sky of Honey'', is a suite of nine tracks which, among other things, charts the passage of light from afternoon ('Prologue') to evening ('An Architect's Dream', 'The Painter's Link') and through the night until dawn. Things get a little hairier here. * '''It's clear Bush is still a force to be reckoned with. The problem, though, with female genius — for many men at least — is that very frequently it is not like male genius. And with its songs about children, washing machines going 'slooshy sloshy', Joan of Arc, Bush's mother, not to mention the almost pagan sensuality that runs through here like a pulse, Aerial is, arguably, the most female album in the world, ever.''' ... the artistry here is so dizzying, the ambition and scope so vast, that even the deafest, most inveterate misogynist could not fail to acknowledge it. '''Genius. End of.''' ==External links== {{wikipedia}} * [http://www.katebush.com/ Official site] * [http://homepage.tinet.ie/~twoms/katebush.htm Kate Bush News] * [http://gaffa.org/ Gaffaweb - extensive fan site] ** [http://gaffa.org/sensual/l_alpha.html Lyrics of Kate Bush songs at Gaffaweb] * [http://ectoguide.org/artists/bush.kate Ectophile Guide to Kate Bush] & [http://ectoguide.org/genre Good Music] * [http://www.alwaysontherun.net/kate.htm Always on the Run : Kate Bush] (bio and lyrics) * [http://home.att.net/~james51453/ "Cathy" Online version of the book by Kate's brother, John Carder Bush] * [http://www.dongrays.com/kate-bush/mp3/ Kate Bush in MP3 - early studio demos by Kate Bush, plus other rare recordings.] * [http://www.katebush.info/ Kate Bush Information and Resources] * [http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/katebush/Art.html Links to Artwork Inspired By Kate] * [http://www.ukkatebushfangatherings.co.uk/ UK Kate Bush Fan Gatherings] * [http://ninthwave.free.fr/ The Ninth Wave - French Language Fan Page] * [http://children.ofthenight.org/cloudbusting/cloudbusting.html Cloudbusting - Kate In her Own Words] * [http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/ Kate Worlds] * [http://www.heisjohn.com/kate/ The Single File] * [http://www.antenna.nl/~dinyar/ Bart Dinyar's Discography] * [http://www.wessex.clara.net/kate/ The Laser File] * [http://www.alwaysontherun.net/kate.htm Kate Bush Lyrics] * [http://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/KT/ Talisman Archive] * [http://members.tripod.com/~BrendanMartin/ The Lost Kate Bush Interview] * [http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/kate.bush.html Summary: "The Line, The Cross & The Curve"] * [http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/03/20/kate_bush/print.html Kate Bush] ''Salon'' (20 March 2001) * [http://www.rollingstone.com/artist/bio/_/id/2069/katebush?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=artistHeader Brief biography] at ''Rolling Stone'' '''Reviews of ''Aerial'':''' * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4386346.stm Review: Kate Bush's ''Aerial'' (BBC)] * [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1604281,00.html "Admit it, guys, she's a genius" - ''The Observer'' (30 October 2005)] * [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5032773 Kate Bush Returns with 'Aerial'] ([[w:National Public Radio|NPR]] audio review) * [http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article309691.ece Kate Bush: The sequel"], ''The Independent'' (2 September 2005) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bush, Kate}} [[Category:Musicien]] [[Category:Chanteur]] [[Catégorie:Personnalité anglaise]] [[Catégorie:Producteur de musique]] [[Category:Absurdists]] [[Category:Songwriters]] [[Category:Living people]] [[li:Kate Bush]] [[fi:Kate Bush]] All content in the above text box is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license Version 4 and was originally sourced from https://fr.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=235191.
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