Kate Bush

The Dreaming 1982

 
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 see the people happy, so can it happen for me?
'Coz when I am unhappy, there is nothing that can move me.
Some say that knowledge is something that you never have
Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that heaven is hell, some say that hell is heaven.
I must admit, just when I think I'm king (I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king, I must admit (I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king
(I just begin.)
I h've been doing it for years, my goal is moving near,
I says "Look I am over here," then it up and disappears.
Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho ho.
I want to be a Lawyer, I want to be a scholar, 
But I really can't be bothered, ooh just
Gimme it quick, gimmi it, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.
Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho ho
Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho ho
Some say that heaven is hell, some say that hell is heaven,
I must admit, just when I think I'm king (I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king, I must admit (I just begin)
Just when I think everything's going great (I just begin)
Hey I get the break
Hey I'm gonna take it all, (I just begin,)
When I'm king, (just begin.)
In my dome of ivory, a home of activity,
I want the answers quickly, but I don't have no energy,
I hold a cup of wisdom, but there is nothing within,
My cup she never overfloweth and 'tis I that moan and groaneth,
Some grey and white matter, (Give me the Karma Mama
a jet to Mecca, Tibet or Jeddah,
To Salisbury, A monastery,
The longest journey, across the desert,
Across the weather, acaross the elements.
Across the water) 

Ther 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
I go in, 
The crime begins
My excitement
Turns into fright
All my words fade
What am I gonna say?
Mustn't give the game away
We're waiting
We got the job sussed
This shops shut for business
The look-out has parked the car
But kept the engine running
Three beeps means trouble's coming
I hope you remember,
To treat the gelignite tenderly for me
I'm having dreams about things
Not going right,
Let's leave in plenty of time tonight
Both my partners
Act like actors,
You are Bogart
He is George Raft
That leaves Cagney and me.
We're waiting
You blow the safe up
Then all I know is I wake up,
Covered in rubble,
One of the Rabble,
Needs Mummy,
The Government will never find the money,
I've been here all day,
A star in strange ways
Apart from a photoeraph 
They'll get nothing from me
Not until they let me see
My solicitor.
Ooh I remember
That rich windy weather
When you would carry me,
Pockets floating in the breeze
There goes a tenner
Hey look, there's a fiver
There's a ten shilling note
Remember them?
That's when we used to vote for him. 

Pull Out The Pin 

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 Buddah
And my silver bullet
(I pull the pin)
You learn to ride the Earth
When you're living on your belly
And the enemy are city births
Who need radar?
We use scent
They stink of the west.
Stink of sweat
Stink of cologne and baccy
And their Yankie Hash
With my silver Buddha
And my silver bullet
CHORUS
Just one thing in it
Me or him
And I love life
Just one thing in it
Me or him
And I love life
Just one thing in it,
Me or him and I love life
I love life
I love life
I've seen the coat for me
I`ll track him 'til he drops
Then I'Il pop him one he won't see
He's big and pink and not like me
He sees no light
He sees no reason for the fighting.
With my silver Buddha
And my silver bullet
(I pull the pin)
I had not seen his face
'Til I'm only feet away
Unbeknown to my prey,
I look in American eyes
I see little life,
See little wife,
He's striking violence up in me.
With my silver Buddha
And my silver bullet.
CHORUS
Just one thing in it, me or him
And I love life.
Just one thing in it, me or him
And I love life.
Just one thing in it me or him and I love life,
I love life, I love life

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 get out of it
She's an excuse
And a witness who'll talk when he's called,
But they've told us
Unless we can prove that we're doing it
We cnn't have it all
We can't have it all
CHORUS
Suddenly my feet are feet of mud
It all goes slow-mo.
I don't know why I'm crying
Am I suspended In Gaffa?
Not until I'm ready for you
Not until I'm ready for you
Can I have it all.
I try to get nearer,
But as it gets clearer
There's something appears in the way
It's a plank in me eye
With a camel who's trying to get through it,
Am I doing it?
Can I have it all now.
I pull out the plank
And say thank you for yanking me back
To the fact
That there's always something to distract
But sometimes it's hard
To know if I'm doing it right.
Can I have it all?
Can I have it all now?
We can't have it all
CHORUS
I won't open boxes that I am told not to,
I'm not a Pandora
I'm much morc like
That girl in the mirror,
Between you and me
She don't stand a chance of
Getting anywhere at all,
Not anywhere at all,
No not a thing,
She can't have it all.
CHORUS

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 shut.
Wide eyes would clean and dust 
Things that decay things that rust.
(But now I've started leaming how)
I keep them shut
I keep them shut.
CHORUS
Harm is in us,
Harm in us but power to arm.
Harm is in us,
Harm in us but power to arm.
Narrow mind would persecute it,
Die a little to get to it.
(But now I've started learning how)
I leave it open
I kept it in a cage,
Watched it weeping, but I made it stay
(But now I've started learning how)
I leave it open
I leave it open
CHORUS
Harm is in us,
Harm is in us
Harm in you and me
What you letting in?
Tell me what you're letting in
Say what we're gonna let in
We let the weirdness in

The Dreaming 

"Bang" goes another Kanga
On the bonnet of the van.
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land.)
Many an Aboriginie's mistaken for a tree,
'Til you near him on the motonvay,
The tree begin to breathe.
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land.) 
Coming in with the golden light in the morning.
Coming in with the golden light is the New Man.
Coming in with the golden light is my dented van.
Woomera
CHORUS - DRE-A-M-T-I-ME
The civilised keep alive the terntonal war.
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land.)
Erase the race that claim the piace
And say we dig for Ore,
Or dangle Devils in a bottle
And push them from the Pull Of The Bush.
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land.)
You find them in the road.
(See the light bounce off the rocks to the sand.)
In the road.
Coming in with the golden light-in the morning
Comin_e in with the golden light-with no waaring
Coming in with the golden light-we bring in the rigging.
Dig, dig, dig, away.
CHORUS - DRE-A-M-T-I-ME
M-M-Many an Aboriginie's mistaken for a tree
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
You near him on the motorway the tree begin to breathe.
Erase the race that claim the place and say we dig for Ore.
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land.)
Dangle Devils in a bottle and push them from The Pull Of The Bush
(See the sun set in the hand of the man.)
"Bang" goes another Kanga on the bonnet of the van
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
You find them in the road
In the road
(See the light)
Pull of the Bush
(See the light bounce off the rocks to the sand)
Push them from the-Pull of the Bush
See the sun set in the hand of the man.

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 they'll head you off when you touch the ground,
Ooh please
Don't go through with this,
I don't like the sound of it.
It's funny how, even now
You're miles away
I won't let you do it
I won't let you do it
I won't let you go through with it.
Meet them over at Dover
I'll just pilot the motor,
Take them over the water
CHORUS
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 us
Posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning.
In Malta catch a swallow
For all of the guilty to set them free
Wings fill the window
And they beat and bleed.
They hold the sky
On the other side
Of border lines
I won`t let you do it
I won`t let you do it
I won`t let you go through with it

REFRAIN
Meet them over at Dover,
I'll just pilot the motor,
Take them ovcr the water,
Like a swallow flying to Malta.
CHORUS
Give me a break,
Ooh let me try,
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.
But you're not a swallow

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 wait for your move."
Only tragedy allows the release
Of love and gnef never normally seen
I didn't want to let them see me weep,
I didn't want to let them see me weak
But I know I have shown
That I stand at the gates alone 
"I needed you to love me too, I wait for your move."
CHORUS
All the love, all the love, all the love we could have given
All the love, all the love, all the love you should have given
All the love, ail the love, all the love.
The next time, 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 fesr in me.
So now when they ring, I get my machine to let them in.
"I needed you to love me too, I wait for your move."
All the love, all the love, all the love we could have given
AIl the love, all the love, all the love you should have given
All the love, all the love, all the love.
"We needed you, to love us too, we wait for your move."

Houdini 

I wait at the table and hold hands with weeping strangers,
Wait for you to join the group.
The tambounnes jingle-jangles
The medium
Roams and rambles.
Not taken in,
I break the circle.
I want this man to go away now.
With a kiss I'd pass the key
And feel your tongue
Teasing and receiving.
With your spit still on my lip-you hit the water.
Him and I in the room
To prove you are with us too
He's using code that only you and I know
This is no tnck ofhis
This is your magic.
I'd catch the queues watching you
Hoping you'd do something wrong.
Everybody thinks you'll never make it-
But every time you escape,
Rosabel believe not even Eternity-
Can hold Houdini.
Rosabel, believe.
Through the glass, I'd watch you breathe
Bound and drowned
And paler than you've ever been.
With your life the only thing in my mind-
We pull you from the water.
Houdini,
You and I and Rosabel believe.

Get Out Of The House 

When you left the door was (slamming)
You paused in the doorway,
As though a thought stole you away.
I watch the world pull you away.
(lock it)
So I run into the hall,
(lock it)
Into the corridor.
There's a door in the house (slamming)
I hear the lift descending
I hear it hit the landing
See the hackles on the cat, standing.
With my key I (lock it)
With my key I (lock it up)
With my key I (lock it)
With my key I (lock it up)
REFRAIN
I am the concierge chez-moi, honey
Won't letcha in for love nor money.
My home, my joy.
I'm barred and bolted and I
Won't letcha in.
CHORUS
(Get out of my house)
No strangers feet
Will enter me
I wash the panes
I clean the stains away.
This house is as old as I am
This house knows all I have done
They come with their weather hanging around them
But can't knock my door down.
With my key I (lock it)
With my key I (lock it)
This house is full of m-m-my mess
This house is full of m-m-mistakes,
This house is full of m-m-madness
This house is full of, full of, full of, full of fight.
With my keeper I (clean up)
With my keeper I (clean it all up)
With my keeper I (clean up)
With my keeper I (clean it all up)
REFRAIN
I am the concierge, chez-moi, honey
Won't letcha in for love nor money
My home, my joy I'm barred and bolted and I
Won't letcha in.
CHORUSB
(Get out of my house)
No strangers feet
Will enter me
I wash the panes
I clean the stains
Woman, let me in
Let me bnng in the memones
Woman, let me in,
Let me bring in the Devil Dreams
I will not let you in
Don't you bring back the reveries
I turn into a bird
Carry further than the word is heard.
Woman, let me in,
I turn into the wind
I blow you a cold kiss
Stronger than the song's hit
I will not let you in
I face towards the wind,
I change into the Mule.
"Hee-Haw"
"Hee-Haw"...