Kate Bush

(born 1958)

and , sister of John Carder Bush

• I think you're all completely mad… —and thank you very much.
  • Kate Bush to her fans.

• Moving stranger,
  Does it really matter,
  As long as you're not afraid to feel?
  • "Moving" from The Kick Inside

• We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
  Soul-birds of a feather flock together.
  • 'Strange Phenomena" from The Kick Inside

• 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.
  • "Them Heavy People" from The Kick Inside

• 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.
  • "Wuthering Heights" from The Kick Inside

• Nobody else can share this.
  Here comes one and one makes one,
  The glorious union.
  Well it could be love,
  Or it could be just lust,
  But it will be fun.
  It will be wonderful.
  • "Feel it" from The Kick Inside

• 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 buttons and bows.
  • "Army Dreamers"

• Only tragedy allows the release
  Of love and grief never normally seen.
  • All the Love (1982)

• I dedicate
  My life's work to the friends I make,
  I give them what they want to hear.
  They think I'm up to something weird
  And up rears the head of fear in me.
  • All the Love (1982)

• We needed you
  To love us too.
  We wait for your move.
  • "All The Love" from The Dreaming

• With a kiss
  I'd pass the key
  And feel your tongue
  Teasing and receiving.
  • "Houdini" from The Dreaming

• I just know that something good is going to happen.
  I don't know when,
  But just saying it could even make it happen.
  • "Cloudbusting" from Hounds of Love

• For Now does ride in on the curl of the wave,
  And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools.
  We are of the going water and the gone.
  We are of water in the holy land of water
  And all that's to come runs in
  With the thrust on the strand."
  • Jig of Life (1985)

• This little girl inside me
  Is retreating to her favourite place.
  Go into the garden.
  Go under the ivy,
  Under the leaves,
  Away from the party.
  Go right to the rose.
  Go right to the white rose
  (For me.)
  • Under the Ivy (1985)

• It's not easy for me
  To give away a secret—
  It's not safe…
  • Under the Ivy (1985)

• I know it works for me.
  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 don't know you,
  And you don't know me.
  It is this that brings us together.
  • "Be Kind To My Mistakes" in the collection This Woman's Work

• As the people here grow colder I turn to my computer
  And spend my evenings with it
  Like a friend.
  • "Deeper Understanding" from The Sensual World

• It lay buried here. It lay deep inside me.
  It's so deep I don't think that I can speak about it.
  It could take me all of my life,
  But it would only take a moment to
  Tell you what I'm feeling,
  But I don't know if I'm ready yet.
  • "Love and Anger" from The Red Shoes

• We used to say
  "Ah Hell, we're young"
  But now we see that life is sad
  And so is love.
  • And So Is Love (1993)

• Now and here we'll find the constellation of the heart.
  Steer your life by these stars
  On the unconditional chance
  —'Tis here where Hell and Heaven dance
  This is the constellation of the heart.
  • "Constellation of the Heart" from The Red Shoes

• What am I singing?
  A song of seeds
  The food of love.
  Eat the music.
  • "Eat the Music" from The Red Shoes

External Link

• Lyrics of Kate Bush songs at Gaffaweb

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