Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush; 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic Idiosyncrasy vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years. Bush was signed by EMI at the age of 16 after being recommended by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. In 1978, at age 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks... [read more] - There Goes A Tenner
Okay, remember Okay, remember That we have just allowed Half an hour To get in, do it, and get out The sense of adventure Is changing to danger The signal has been given I go in The crime begins My excitement Turns...
- Leave It Open
With my ego in my gut My babbling mouth would wash it up (But now I've started learning how) I keep it shut My door was never locked Until one day a trigger come - cocking (But now I've started learning how) I keep it...
- All The Love
The first time I died Was in the arms of good friends of mine. They kiss me with tears. They hadn't been near me for years. Say, why do it now When I won't be around, I'm going out?"We needed you To love us too. We...
- Suspended In Gaffa
Out in the garden There's half of a heaven And we're only bluffing We're not ones for busting through walls But they've told us Unless we can prove That we're doing it We can't have it all He's gonna wangle A way to...
- Houdini
I wait at the table, And hold hands with weeping strangers Wait for you to join the group The tambourine jingle-jangles The medium roams and rambles Not taken in, I break the circle I want this man To go away now With...
- Get Out Of My House
("Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw!") When you left, the door was (slamming) You paused in the doorway (slamming) As though a thought stole you away (slamming) I watched the world pull you away (Lock it) So I run into the...
- Night Of The Swallow
The night doesn't like it Looks just like your face on the moon to me And I won't let you do What you want to do It's funny how, even now, you're laughing. I won't let you do it! If you go, I'll let the law know And...
- The Dreaming
"Bang!" goes another kangaOn the bonnet of the van"See the light ram through the gaps in the land."Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree'Til you near him on the motorwayAnd the tree begin to breathe"See the light...
- Sat In Your Lap
I see the people working And see it working for them And so I want to join in But then I find it hurts me Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap Some say that knowledge is something that you never have I...
- Pull Out The PIin
Just as we hit the green I've never been so happy to be alive Only seven miles behind You could smell the child The smell of the front line's survival With my silver Buddha And my silver bullet (I pull the pin) You...
- Hounds Of Love
"It's in the trees! It's coming!" When I was a child: Running in the night, Afraid of what might be Hiding in the dark, Hiding in the street, And of what was following me... Now hounds of love are hunting. I've always...
- And So Is Love
And you ah? You do ah? We let it in, we give it out. And in the end, what's it all about? It must be love. I give you my, I give you my You give me your, you give me your joy. We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young"...
- This Woman's Work
Pray God you can cope. I stand outside this woman's work, This woman's world. Ooh, it's hard on the man, Now his part is over. Now starts the craft of the father. I know you have a little life in you yet. I know you...
- Babooshka
She wanted to test her husband.She knew exactly what to do:A pseudonym to fool him.She couldn't have made a worse move.She sent him scented letters,And he received them with a strange delight.Just like his wifeBut how...
- Wuthering Heights
Out On the wiley, windy moorsWe'd roll and fall in greenYou had a temper, like my jealousyToo hot, too greedyHow could you leave meWhen I needed to possess you?I hated you, I loved you tooBad dreams in the nightThey...
- Hello Earth
"Hello Earth""Columbia now nine times the speed of sound.""Roger that, Dan, I've got a solid TACANlocked on, uh, TACAN twenty-three.""The, uh, tracking data, map data and pre-plannedtrajectory are all one line on the...
- December Will Be Magic Again
December will be magic again. Take a husky to the ice While Bing Crosby sings White Christmas. He makes you feel nice. December will be magic again. Old Saint Nicholas up the chimney, Just a-popping up in my memory....
- How To Be Invisible
I found a book on how to be invisibleTake a pinch of keyholeAnd fold yourself upYou cut along a dotted lineYou think inside outAnd you're invisibleEye of BrailleHem of anorakStem of wallflowerHair of doormatI found a...
- Pi
Sweet and gentle sensitive manWith an obsessive nature and deep fascinationFor numbersAnd a complete infatuation with the calculationOf PIOh he love, he love, he loveHe does love his numbersAnd they run, they run,...
- Mrs. Bartolozzi
I remember it was that WednesdayOh when it rained and it rainedThey traipsed mud all over the houseIt took hours and hours to scrub it outAll over the hall carpetI took my mop and bucketAnd I cleaned and I cleanedThe...
- Prologue
We're gonna be laughing about thisWe're gonna be dancing aroundIt's gonna be so good nowIt's gonna be so goodOh so exciting, mmh go on and onEvery time you leave usSo Summer will be goneSo you'll never grow old to...
- Bertie
Here comes the sunshineHere comes that son of mineHere comes the everythingHere's a song and a song for himSweet kissesThree wishesLovely BertieThe most wilfulThe most beautifulThe most truly fantastic smileI've ever...
- Prelude
(Bertie speaking)Mummy
Daddy
The day is full of birdssounds like the same words
- Joanni
All the banners stop wavingAnd the flags stop flyingAnd the silence comes overThousands of soldiersThousands of soldiersWho is that girl? Do I know her face?Who is that girl?Joanni, Joanni wears a golden crossAnd she...
- A Coral Room
There's a city, draped in netFisherman netAnd in the half light, in the half lightIt looks like every towerIs covered in websMoving and glistening and rockingIt's babies in rhythmAs the spider of time is climbingOver...
- King Of The Mountain
Could you see the aisles of women?Could you see them screaming & weeping?Could you see the storm rising?Could you see the guy who was driving?Could you climb higher and higher?Could you climb right over the top?Why...
- Reaching Out
See how the child reaches out instinctivelyTo feel how the fire will feel.See how the man reaches out instinctivelyFor what he cannot have.The pull and the push of it all.Reaching out for the handReaching out for the...
- Walk Straight Down The Middle
Can't move my arms, Can't move my legs. Can't say no, I can't say yes. Can't help myself. I need your help. (We go) "Ooh, ooh, what do we do, Now we just can't move?" We're calling out for Middle Street. "Ooh, ooh,...
- Between A Man And A Woman
With her hand in his handThey were both happy again.You started to take sidesThey started arguingHe said it was her faultShe said it wasn't at allBut the truth lies somewhere in the middle.Where angels fear to tread...
- Never Be Mine
I look at you and seeMy life that might have beenYour face just ghostly in the smoke.They're setting fire to the cornfieldsAs you're taking me home.The smell of burning fieldsWill now mean you and here.This is where I...
- Deeper Understanding
As the people here grow colderI turn to my computerAnd spend my evenings with itLike a friend.I was loading a new programmeI had ordered from a magazine"Are you lonely, are you lost?This voice console is a must"I...
- The Fog
You see, I'm all grown-up nowHe said"Just put your feet down child'Coz you're all grown-up now."Just like a photograph I pick you upJust like a station on the radioI pick you upJust like a face in the crowdI pick you...
- The Sensual World
Mmh, yes.Then I'd taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth.Going deep South go down, mmh, yes.Took six big wheels and rolled our bodiesOff of Howth Head and into the flesh, mmh yes,He said I was a flower of the...
- Rocket's Tail
That Novenber night, looking up into the sky.You said "Hey wish that was me up there -It's the biggest rocket I could findAnd it's holding the night in its armsIf for only a moment.I can't see the look in its eyesBut...
- Love And Anger
It lay buried here, deep inside me.It's so deep I don't think that I canSpeak about it.It could take me all of my lifeBut it would only take a moment to Tell you what I'm feelingBut I don't know if I'm ready yet.You...
- Heads We're Dancing
You talked me into the game of chanceIt was '39 before the music startedWhen you walked up to me and you said"Hey, heads we dance."Well I didn't know who wereUnti I saw the morning paper.There was a picture of youA...
- The Big Sky
The Big Skyby Kate Bush They look down at the ground, missing.But I never go in now -I'm looking at the Big Sky,I'm looking at the Big Sky now,I'm looking at the Big SkyYou never understood me,You never really tried....
- Cloudbusting
I still dream of Orgonon. I wake up crying. You're making rain, And you're just in reach, When you and sleep escape me.You're like my yo-yo That glowed in the dark. What made it special Made it dangerous, So I bury it...
- Under Ice
It's wonderfulEverywhere, so whiteThe river has frozen overNot a soul on the iceOnly me skating fastI'm speeding past treesLeaving little lines in the ice,Cotting out, little lines in the iceSplitting, splitting...
- Running Up That Hill
'If I only could, I'd be running up that hill. If I only could, I'd be running up that hill.' It doesn't hurt me. Do you want to feel how it feels? Do you want to know that it doesn't hurt me? Do you want to hear...
- Army Dreamers
"B.F.P.O.*" Army dreamers. "Mammy's hero." "B.F.P.O." "Mammy's hero."Our little army boy Is coming home from B.F.P.O. I've a bunch of purple flowers To decorate a mammy's hero.Mourning in the aerodrome, The weather...
- Experiment IV
We were working secretly,For the military,Our experiment in sound,Is nearly ready to begin,We only know in theory,What we are doing,Music made for pleasure,Music made to thrill,It was music we were making here...
- Wow
Emily... We're all alone on the stage tonight. We've been told we're not afraid of you. We know all our lines so well, uh-huh. We've said them so many times: Time and time again, Line and line again. Ooh, yeah, you're...
- The Man With The Child In His Eyes
I hear him, Before I go to sleep,And focus on the day thats been,I realise he's there,When I turn the light off,And turn over,Nobody knows about my man,They think he's lost on some horizon,And suddenly I find myself...
- Lily
Oh thou, who givest sustenance to the universeFrom whom all things proceedTo whom all things returnUnveil to us the face of the true spiritual sunHidden by a disk of golden lightThat we may know the truthAnd do our...
- Rubberband Girl
See those treesBend in the windI feel they've got a lot more sense than meYou see I try to resistA rubberband bouncing back to lifeA rubberband bend the beatIf I could learn to give like a rubberbandI'd be back on my...
- Top Of The City
One more step to the top of the cityWhere just a couple of pigeons are livingUp on the angel's shouldersI don't know if I'm closer to Heaven butIt looks like Hell down thereThese streets have never been paved with...
- You're The One
It's alright I'll come 'round when you're not inAnd I'll pick up all my thingsEverything I have bought with youBut that's alright tooIt's just everything I doWe did togetherAnd there's a little piece of youIn...
- Eat The Music
Split me openWith devotionYou put your hands inAnd rip my heart outEat the musicDoes he concealWhat he really feels?He's a woman at heartAnd I love him for thatLet's split him openLike a pomegranateInsides outAll is...
- The Red Shoes
Oh she move like the Diva doI said "I'd love to dance like you"She said "just take off my red shoesPut them on and your dream'll come trueWith no words, with no songYou can dance the dream with your body onAnd this...
- Big Stripey Lie
Oh big stripey lie movingLike a wavy lineComing up behindAll young gentle dreams drowningIn life's griefCan you hang onto me?Don't want to hurt you babyI only want to help youI could be good for you Your name is being...
- Constellation Of The Heart
We take all the telescopesAnd we turn them inside outAnd we point them away from the big skyPut your eye right up to the glass, nowAnd here we'll find the constellation of the heartSteer your life by these starsOn the...
- Moments Of Pleasure
Some moments that I've hadSome moments of pleasureI think about us lyingLying on a beach somewhereI think about us divingDiving off a rock, into another momentThe case of George the WipeOh God I can't stop...
- The Song Of Solomon
The Song of SolomonThe song of everyoneWho walks the pathOf the solitary heartThe soul cries outHear a woman singingDon't want your bullshit, yeahJust want your ***ualityDon't want excuses, yeahWrite me your poetry in...
- Why Should I Love You?
This chapter says"Put it out of your mind"Mmm, give it time . . .The fine purpleThe purest goldThe red of the Sacred HeartThe grey of a ghostThe "L" of the lips are openTo the "O" of the hostThe "V" of the velvetOf...
- The Craft Of Love
(The Craft Of Life)
I tried to study it for just a while:All of the potions, from oysters to seducing smiles.But I've found it's already inside me:A big round bubble of sensuality,Dared to be burst,But worried about getting hurt.I know...
- Violin
ViolinBy Kate BushFour strings across the bridge, Ready to carry me over, Over the quavers, drunk in the bars, Out of the realm of the orchestra, Out of the realm of the orchestra. Filling me up with the shivers....
- Moving
Moving stranger does it really matter?As long as you're not afraid to feelTouch me, hold me, how my open arms acheTry to fall for meHow I'm moved, how you move meWith your beauty's potencyYou give me life, please...
- Saxophone Song
You'll find me in a Berlin barIn a corner, broodingYou know that I got very quietWhen I am listening to youThere's something special indeedIn all the places where I've seen you shine, boyThere's something very real in...
- The Kick Inside
I've pulled down my lace and the chintzOh do you know you have the face of a genius?I'll send your love to ZeusOh by the time you read thisI'll be well in touchI'm giving it all in a moment or twoI'm giving it all in...
- Oh To Be In Love
As the light hits you, as you shift along the floorI find it hard to place my faceOw did I come to be here anyway?It's terribly vague, what's gone beforeI could have been anyoneYou could have been anyone's dreamWhy...
- James And The Cold Gun
James, come on homeYou've been gone too long babyWe can't let our hero die aloneWe miss you day and nightYou left town to live by the rifleYou left us to fightBut it just ain't right to take away the lightRemember...
- L'Amour Looks Something Like You
You came out of the nightWearing a mask in white colourMy eyes were shining on the wineAnd your auraAll in order, we moved into the boudoirBut too soon, the morning has resumedI'm hanging on the Old Goose MoonYou look...
- Kite
(Come up and be a kite...)Beelzebub is aching in my belly-oMy feet are heavy and I'm rooted in my welliosAnd I want to get away and go (I wanna be, I wanna be)From all these mirror windowsI look at eye level, it isn't...
- Them Heavy People
Rolling (rolling) the ball, rolling (rolling) the ball, rolling (rolling) the ball to meRolling (rolling) the ball, rolling (rolling) the ball, rolling (rolling) the ball to meThey arrived at an inconvenient timeI was...
- Room For The Life
Hey there you lady in tearsDo you think that they care if they're real, woman?They just take it as part of the dealLost in your men and the games you playTrying to prove that you're better, womanBut you needn't get...
- Feel It
After the party, you took me back to your parlourA little nervous laughter, locking the doorMy stockings fall onto the floor, desperate for moreNobody else can share thisHere comes one and one makes oneThe glorious...
- Strange Phenomena
Soon it will be the phase of the moonWhen people tune inEvery girl know about the punctual bluesBut who's to know the powerBehind our movesA day of coincidence with the radioAnd a word that won't go awayWe know what...
- Breathing
Outside Gets inside Through her skin. I've been out before But this time it's much safer in.Last night in the sky, Such a bright light. My radar send me danger But my instincts tell me to keepBreathing, ("Out, in,...
- The Wedding List
No, I'll never give the hunt up,And I won't muck it up.Somehow this is it, I knew.Maybe fate wants you dead, tooWe've come together in the very same room,And I'm coming for you!Do you think I'd ever let youGet away...
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