Kate Bush (88,56 %)
The Dreaming (96,58 %)
In collection
Released: 1982-09-13
Type: Studio
Type: Studio
Ranking:
Artist:
1
Year (1982):
1
Decade (1980's):
1
Overall:
7
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1.
Sat in Your Lap
 03:30
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2.
There Goes a Tenner
 03:25
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3.
Pulling Out the Pin
 05:27
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4.
Suspended in Gaffa
03:55
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5.
Leave It Open
03:20
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6.
The Dreaming
04:42
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7.
Night of the Swallow
05:23
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8.
All the Love
04:30
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9.
Houdini
03:50
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10.
Get Out of My House
05:25
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Album length:
43:27
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Lyrics |
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1.
Sat in Your Lap
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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 'Cause when I am unhappy, there's 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've been doing it for years, my goal is moving near It says "Look I'm over here", then it up and disappears Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap Some say 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, gimme it, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho Some say knowledge is 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) 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) Coming up the ladder You're coming up the ladder (A jet to Mecca, Tibet or Jeddah To Salisbury, a monastery The longest journey, across the desert Across the weather, across the elements Across the water) |
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2.
There Goes a Tenner
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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 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 shop's 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 photograph 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 |
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3.
Pulling Out the Pin
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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 learn to ride the Earth When you're living on your belly And the enemy is city births Who need radar We use scent They stink of the west Stink of sweat Stink of cologne and back And their Yankie Hash With my silver Buddha And my silver bullet (Pulling on the pin) Just one thing in it Me or him And I love life (Pull out the pin) Just one thing in it Me or him And I love life (Pull out the pin) Just one thing in it Me or him and I love life I love life I love life (Pull out the pin) I've seen the coat for me I'll track him 'til he drops Then I'll 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 (Pulling on the pin) Just one thing in it Me or him And I love life (Pull out the pin) Just one thing in it Me or him And I love life. (Pulling out the pin) Just one thing in it Me or him And I love life I love life I love life (Pull out the pin) |
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4.
Suspended in Gaffa
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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 can't have it all We can't have it all 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 blank in my 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 Can I have it all I can't have it all 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 won't open boxes that I am told not to I'm not a Pandora I'm much more 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 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 |
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5.
Leave It Open
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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 - cooking (But now I've started learning how) I keep it shut Wide eyes would clean and dust Thing that decay, things that rust (But now I've started learning how) I keep them shut I keep them shut 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 Harm is in us Harm in us but power to arm Harm is in us Harm in us but power to arm Harm is in us Harm is in us Harm in you and me What you letting in Tell me what your letting in Say what we're gonna let in |
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6.
The Dreaming
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"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 motorway 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 DRE-A-M-T-I-ME The civilised keep alive the territorial war (See the light ram through the gaps in the land) Erase the race that claim the place 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 Coming in with the golden light with no warning Coming in with the golden light, we bring in the rigging Dig, dig, dig away DRE-A-M-T-I-ME 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 (See the light ram through the gaps in the land) In the road (See the light) Pull of the Bush (See the light bounce off the rocks to the sand) Pull of the Bush (See the sun set in the hand of the man) |
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7.
Night of the Swallow
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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 Oh 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 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 at the night And I'm home before the morning In Malta, catch a swallow For all 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 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 Like a swallow flying to Malta 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 Though pigs can fly They'll never find us Posing at the night And I'm home before the morning Give me a break Oh, let me try Give me something to show For my miserable life Something to take Would you break even my wings Just like a swallow Let me, let me go 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 Though pigs can fly They'll never find me Posing at the night And I'm home before the morning Let me, let me go But you're not a swallow |
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8.
All the Love
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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 grief 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" All the love, all the love, all the love we should have given All the love, all the love, all the love we could have given All the love, all 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 fear 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 you should have given All the love, all the love, all the love we could have given All the love, all the love, all the love "We needed you, to love us too, we wait for your move" |
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9.
Houdini
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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 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 trick of his 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 |
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10.
Get Out of My House
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When you left the door was (slamming) You paused in the doorway (slamming) As though a thought stole you away (slamming) I watch the world pull you away (slamming) So I run into the hall (lock it) Into the corridor (lock it) There's a door in the house (slamming) I hear the lift descending (slamming) I hear it hit the landing (slamming) 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) 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 (Get out of my house) No strangers feet (Get out of my house) Wll enter me (Get out of my house) I wash the panes (Get out of my house) I clean the stains away (Get out of my house) This house is as old as I am (slamming) This house knows all I have done (slamming) They come with their weather hanging around them (slamming) But can't knock my door down (slamming) With my key I (lock it) With my key I (lock it) This house is full of m-m-my mess (slamming) This house is full of m-m-mistakes (slamming) This house is full of m-m-madness (slamming) This house is full of, full of, full of, full of fight (slamming) 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) 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 (Get out of my house) No strangers feet (Get out of my house) Will enter me (Get out of my house) I wash the panes (Get out of my house) I clean the stains (Get out of my house) (Get out of my house) Woman, let me in Let me bring in the memories 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'll turn into the wind I'll 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" |