“I don't know if I'm closer to Heaven but
It looks like Hell down there.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: I don't know if I'm closer to Heaven but
It looks like Hell down there.
These streets have never been paved with gold.
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Context: 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.
“Oh, come on, you've got to use your flow.
You know what it's like, and you know you want to go.”
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
Context: Oh, come on, you've got to use your flow.
You know what it's like, and you know you want to go.
Don't drive too slowly.
Don't put your blues where your shoes should be.
Don't put your foot on the heartbrake.
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
“As the people here grow colder I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend.”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“You look like an angel,
Sleeping it off at a station.
Were you only passing through?”
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
“Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial
All the time it's a changing, like now…”
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“Mummy…
Daddy…
The day is full of birds
Sounds like they're saying words…”
Spoken by Bush's son, Berty.
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
“Just like a photograph,
I pick you up.
Just like a station on the radio,
I pick you up.”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
MOJO interview (2005)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
“Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would
When I could wear the sunset?”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“He's big and pink, and not like me.
He sees no light.
He sees no reason for the fighting…”
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)