Kate Bush - Organic Acid - text písně

See also "Before the Fall"

IED: This song is radically different from the others in that collection, however, in that it includes a rather long poem by Kate's brother John Carder Bush, who recites a stanza or two between each verse and chorus of Kate's song. (Kate's piano continues between verses as a support to John's recitation.) IED cannot see any really clear connection between Kate's song and John's poem: the former seems to be a kind of lullabye to a troubled lover, and is filled with imagery of the sea. (One possibility, therefore, is that this is the song known as Atlantis, which IED has not heard but which is listed among the songs on the near-mythical album, The Early Years.) John's poem, however, is a far more detailed and explicit descriptive poem which details the progress and violent end of a vaguely perverted love affair. It is possible that the speaker in Kate's song is addressing a character in John's poem, or possibly the narrator of John's poem, himself; but neither of these interpretations seems likely to IED. (On the other hand, the reference to the beach at the climax of John's poem does provide for the possibility that the two are interconnected.) It seems more probable that Kate simply invited John to recite one of his poems during the performance of her song. She must have felt that the two works complemented each other in some intangible way; and IED, for one, agrees with her.


John:
1 - "He got her drunk very quickly.
2 - Holding hands, they found the broom-cupboard,
3 - Where he had control as far as the fall,
4 - When his hand covered wet hair.
5 - She took over among furniture wax,
6 - Dust, the cloying yellow of polishing-cloth.
7 - When he was sick, she comforted him."


Kate:
8 - Oh, hush, my friend, and sleep,
9 - And cuddle to the wind.
10 - And sleep on through the waves
11 - That may wet your lover's dream.


12 - We have been far through this night long hours.
13 - We will go far, tomorrow, out of sight, ooh...


John:
14 - "He couldn't do it properly;
15 - The disco, the office, the pub,
16 - Had left out those details of delight.
17 - Satisfied, he would collapse out,
18 - Puzzled at why she still squirmed,
19 - Held onto him, tears curling into her mouth.
20 - This was something their stories always omitted:
21 - That her joy would seem like pain,
22 - When he focused after his release."


Kate:
23 - Do sand and shells and stones
24 - Peep in through your night?
25 - But you should not be hurt
26 - For all will pass with time.


27 - We have been far through this night long hours.
28 - We will go far, tomorrow, out of sight, ooh...


John:
29 - "In the third week of the relationship
30 - She was tripping on organic acid,
31 - Would stop to pick up a rained-out leaf,
32 - Would give it tenderly into his hand--
33 - Full of dead things before they reached the car.
34 - When they drove she sat with mouth open
35 - As though photographed on the impact of a stomach punch,
36 - Her right fist gripping the skin of his left leg.
37 - Hooking the steering-wheel closer to his heart,
38 - He feared her, and slapped out sideways into her face.
39 - She entered the cut with her tongue,
40 - Gurgling gratitude for the strange taste."


Kate:
41 - Do you fear the dark?
42 - Then hush, and realise
43 - That though the angels never come,
44 - Prayers can soothe your mind.


45 - We have been far through this night long hour.
46 - We will go far, tomorrow, out of sight, ooh...


John:
47 - "There was no premonition of the wet Hog's back.
48 - The sportscar slumped, snout into a beech,
49 - Their corpses giving the vehicle arms,
50 - Petrol and blood at last dripping together.
51 - But quick flashes of a planned lunch:
52 - Cold red beef, white cloth by a cherrywood fire,
53 - Game pie, and for him two pints of colder beer,
54 - The winter air tucking under their eyelids
55 - As they spun on the gravel at Clandon;
56 - Their hands steaming from quick moisture,
57 - The aromatic finger drawn up to his nostril--
58 - Dazed after mutual masturbation,
59 - They zigzagged into a conservative end."


Kate:
60 - Oh hush, my friend, and sleep...

- line 35: difficult to hear, "stomach punch" added from "Before the Fall".

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