Kate Bush: Quotes about love

“The eye in wonder
The eye that sees
The "I" that loves you.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: The fine purple
The purest gold
The red of the Sacred Heart
The grey of a ghost
The "L" of the lips are open
To the "O" of the Host
The "V" of the velvet
The "E" of my eye
The eye in wonder
The eye that sees
The "I" that loves you.

Love

“Excuse me I'm sorry to bother you,
But don't I know you?
There's just something about you.
Haven't we met before? We've been in love forever.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)

Love

“There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)
Context: There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it.
You might feel it and just not show it.

Love

“Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: p>Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…</p

Love

“Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
Context: Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together.

Love , Hope , Past , Future

“They got alchemy.
They turn the roses into gold
They turn the lilac into honey
They're making love for the peaches.

And they'll do it,
Do it for you.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Singles and rarities

Love , Making love

“Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me, we both matter, don't we?”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
Context: Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me, we both matter, don't we?
You, it's you and me.
It's you and me won't be unhappy.

Love , Hate

“What a lovely afternoon
On a cloudbusting kind of day.
We took our own 'Mystery Tour'
And got completely lost somewhere up in the hills.

And we came up on a bee-keeper,
And he said "Did you know they can change it all?"”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Singles and rarities

Bee , Love , Change

“Only tragedy allows the release
Of love and grief never normally seen.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Context: 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.

Love

“At night
They're seen
Laughing,
Loving.
They know
The way
To be
Happy.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)

Love , Way , Night , Happiness

“We needed you
To love us too.
We wait for your move.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Variant: We needed you
To love us too.
We wait for your move.

Love , Waiting

“The light
Begin to bleed,
Begin to breathe,
Begin to speak.
D'you know what?
I love you better now.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave