Kate Bush: Likeness

Kate Bush is British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“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.

“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.”

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.

“We could be like two strings beating,
Speaking in sympathy…”

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

“I'm dying for you just to touch me,
And feel all the energy rushing right up-a-me.
L'amour looks something like you.”

Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)

“There's a city, draped in net
Fisherman net
And in the half light, in the half light
It looks like every tower
Is covered in webs
Moving and glistening and rocking
It's babies in rhythm
As the spider of time is climbing
Over the ruins.”

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)

“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.”

Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)

“Ooh, their breath is warm
And they smell like sleep,
And they say they take me home.
Like poppies heavy with seed
They take me deeper and deeper.”

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)

“Elvis are you out there somewhere
Looking like a happy man?
In the snow with '
And King of the Mountain.”

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)

“In the warm room
She'll touch you with your Mamma's hand.
You'll long to kiss those red lips,
But when you do
It'll feel like kicking a habit.”

Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)

“This love was big enough for the both of us.
This love of yours was big enough to be frightened of.
It's deep and dark, like the water was,
The day I learned to swim.”

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

“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)

“There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: "Here's what I've been working on," and then produced some cakes from your oven. True?
"No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?"”

MOJO interview (2005)

“Oh and the waves are going out
Oh and the waves are coming in
Out of the corner of my eye
I think I see you standing outside
But it's just your shirt
Hanging on the washing line
Waving it's arm as the wind blows by
And it looks so alive
Nice and white
Just like it's climbed right out
of my washing machine…”

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)