all lyrics written by Kate Bush
Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me?
When I needed to possess you
I hated you, I loved you too
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy come home
I'm so cold, let me in-a-your window
Oh it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine a lot, I find the lot
Falls through without you
I'm coming back love, cruel Heathcliff
My one dream, my only master
Too long I roam in the night
I'm coming back to his side to put it right
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Cathy
Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights"
(her first hit in 1978)
How I'm moved, how you move me
With your beauty's potency
You give me life, please don't let me go
You crush the lily in my soul
from "Moving"
The candle burning over your shoulder
Is throwing shadows from your saxophone
A surly lady in tremor
The stars that climb from her bowels
Those stars make towers on vowels
You'll never know that you had all of me
You'll never see the poetry you've stirred in me
Of all the stars I've seen that shine so brightly
I've never known or felt, in myself, so rightly
from "Saxophone Song"
Soul birds of a feather flock together
from "Strange Phenomena"
And then I find out, when I take a good look up
There's a hole in the sky with a big eyeball
Calling me
I got no limbs
I'm like a feather on the wind
Well I'm not sure if I want to be up here at all
And I'd like to be back on the ground
But I don't know how to get down
from "Kite"
I hear him before I go to sleep
And focus on the day that's 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
Listening to a man I've never known before
Telling me about the sea
All his love, 'till eternity
from "The Man With The Child In His Eyes"
All the colours look brighter now
Everything they say seems to sound new
Slipping into tomorrow too quick
Yesterday always too good to forget
Stop the swing of the pendulum, let us through!
from "Oh To Be In Love"
You came out of the night
Wearing a mask in white colour
My eyes were shining on the wine
And your aura
The thoughts of you sends me shivery
I'm dressed in lace sailing down a black reverie
from "L'Amour Looks Something Like You"
I must work on my mind
For now I realize that everyone of us
Has a heaven inside
They open doorways that I thought were shut for good
They read me Gurdjieff and Jesu
They build up my body
Break me emotionally, it's nearly killing me
But what a lovely feeling!
I love the whirling of the Dervishes
I love the beauty of rare innocence
You don't need no crystal ball
Don't fall for a magic wand
We humans got it all
We perform the miracles
from "Them Heavy People"
Lost in your men and the games you play
Trying to prove that you're better, woman
But you needn't get heavy with them
Like it or not, we were build tough
Because we're woman
No, we never die for long
While we've got that little life to live for
Where it's hid inside, no, we never die for long
Oh-woman, two in one
There's room for a life in your womb, woman
Inside of you, can be two, woman
from "Room For The Life"
I've pulled down my lace and the chintz
Oh, do you know you have the face of a genius
I'll send your love to Zeus
Oh, by the time you read this
I'll be well in touch
I'm giving it all in a moment or two
I'm giving it all in a moment for you
I'm giving it all
Giving it, giving it, giving it
This kicking here inside makes me leave you behind
No more under the quilt to keep you warm
Your sister I was born, you must lose me
Like an arrow shot in the killer storm
You and me on the bobbing knee
Didn't we cry at that old mythology he'd read
I will come home again, but not until
The sun and moon meet on yon hill
"The Kick Inside"
(really beautiful song .... about incest
I admire Kate's lyrical courage, and talent)
I spend a lot of my time looking at blue
The colour of my room and my mood
Blue on the walls
Blue out of my mouth
The sort of blue
Between clouds when the sun comes out
The sort of blue
In those eyes you get hung up about
The more I think about sex
The better it gets
Here we have a purpose in life
Good for the blood circulation
Good for releasing the tension
The root of our reincarnations
from "Symphony In Blue"
I've been told
When I get older
That I'll understand it all
But I'm not sure if I want to
from "In Search Of Peter Pan"
When the actor reaches his death
You know it's not for real
He just holds his breath
But he always dives too soon
Too fast to save himself
He'll never make the screen
He'll never make "The Sweeney"
Be that movie queen
He's too busy hitting the vaseline
from "Wow"
In the warm room
Her perfume reaches you
Eventually you'll fall for her
Down you'll go to where the mellow wallows
In the warm room
You'll fall into her like a pillow
Her thighs are soft as marshallows
Say hello to the soft mush of her hollows
from "In The Warm Room"
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 wife
But how she was before the tears
And how she was before the years flew by
And how she was when she was beautiful
She signed the letter
All yours, Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
She wanted to take it further
So she arranged a place to go
To see if he
Would fall for her incognito
And when he laid eyes on her
He got the feeling they had met before
Uncanny how she
Reminds him of his little lady
Capacity to give him all he needs
Just like his wife before she freezed on him
Just like his wife when she was beautiful
He shouted out, I'm...
All yours, Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
"Babooshka"
One of the band told me last night
That music is all that he's got in his life
So where does it go
Surely not with his soul
Will all of his licks and his R & B blow away
from "Blow Away"
The whims that we're weeping for
Our parents would be beaten for
Leave the breast and then the nest
And then regret you ever left
from "All We Ever Look For"
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 warmer, he is colder
Four men in uniform to carry home
My little soldier
What could he do? Should have been a rock star
But he didn't have the money for a guitar
What could he do? Should have been a politician
But he never had a proper education
What could he do? Should have been a father
But he never even made it to his twenties
What a waste
Army Dreamers
Tears o'er a tin box
Oh Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know
Like a chicken with a fox
He cannot win the war with ego
Give the kid the pick of pips
And give him all your stripes and ribbons
Now he's sitting in his hole
He might as well have ribbons and bows
"Army Dreamers"
December will be magic again
Light up the candlelights
To conjure Mr. Wilde
Into the silent night
Ooh, it's quiet inside
Here in Oscar's mind
from "December Will Be Magic Again"
I've been doing it for years
My goal is moving near
It says "Look I'm over here"
Then it up and disappears
from "Sat In Your Lap"
My door was never locked
Until one day a trigger come - cocking
Narrow mind would persecute it
Die a little to get to it
I kept it in a cage
Watched it weeping, but I made it stay
We let the weirdness in
from "Leave It Open"
With a hired plane
And no names mentioned
Tonight's the night of the flight
Before you know
I'll be over the water like a swallow
There's no risk
I'll whisk them up
In no moonlight
And though pigs can fly
They'll never find me
Posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning
In Malta catch a swallow
For all of the guilty to let them free
Wings fill the window
And they beat and bleed
They hold the sky
On the other side
Of border lines
Give me a break
Ooh let me fly
Give me something to show
For my miserable life
Give me something to take
Would you break even my wings
Just like a swallow
Let me, let me go
from "Night Of The Swallow"
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
from "All The Love"
You're like my yo-yo
That glowed in the dark
What made it special
Made it dangerous
So I bury it and forget
Everytime it rains
You're here in my head
Like the sun coming out
Ooh I just know that something good is going to happen
And I don't know when
But just saying it could even make it happen
from "Cloudbusting"
It's wonderful
Everything so white
The river has frozen over
Not a soul on the ice
Only me skating fast
I'm speeding past trees leaving
Little lines in the ice
Cutting out little lines
In the ice
Splitting, splitting sound
Silver heels spitting, spitting snow
There's something moving under
Under the ice
Moving under ice
Through water
Trying to get out of the cold water
"It's me"
Something, someone
Help them
"It's me"
"Under Ice"
(from "The Ninth Wave", the concept side of the album "Hounds Of Love"
the woman is in the river, near drowning, trying to stay awake)
This moment in time
It doesn't belong to you
It belongs to me
And to your little boy and your little girl
And the one hand clapping
Where on your palm is my little line
When you're written in mine
As an old memory
from "Jig Of Life"
(another part of "The Ninth Wave"
in a dream, the woman sees her older self
this is the older version talking to her
man, I love this woman's lyrics!)
Just being alive
It can really hurt
And these moments given
Are a gift from time
from "Moments Of Pleasure"
See how the flower leans instinctively toward the light
See how the heart reaches out instinctively
For no reason but to touch
from "Reaching Out"
They say that the Devil is a charming man
And just like you I bet he can dance
from "Heads We're Dancing"
As the people here grow colder
I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend
from "Deeper Understanding"
I know you have a little life in you yet
I know you have a lot of strength left
I should be crying
But I just can't let it show
I should be hoping
But I can't stop thinking
Of all the things we should've said
That were never said
All the things we should've done
That we never did
All the things that you needed from me
All the things that you wanted for me
All the things that I should've given
But I didn't
from "This Woman's Work"
(lovely tune ... about childbirth)
Next artist: Melissa Etheridge
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