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Dreaming
Posts: 44 (March 16, 2009 20:08:19) |
Does anyone know what this song is about or have a view on what this is about?
This song has a really unnerving edge about it. For some reason I thought it was about someone being stalked or hunted down. |
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Cloudbusting!
Posts: 4892 (March 16, 2009 21:07:14) Cloudbusting! |
I've always thought it was about some kind of smarmy, dishonest character, up to no good--in what area of life, who knows, it could be anything--and that
this guy (I assume it's a guy, probably rightly) is dressed in some stripey way--might be a reference to his tie.
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Cloudbusting!
Posts: 3791 (March 17, 2009 09:11:09) Running (Up That Hill) |
For some reason I always thought it should have been Big Fat Stripey Lie but the fat was left out to be more PC! In the sense that it is about something very
prominent and obvious, a brazen falseness rather than a subtle one. Further I take it as being directed at someone. As in "you make a big production about
how you feel towards me but it's all fake". Therefore the song for me is about anger and disillusionment, dangerous emotions hence the wild animals!
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Showing (a little devotion)
Posts: 1502 (March 18, 2009 03:05:10) Showing (a little devotion) |
I think the music tells the story as much as the lyrics do, perhaps even more so. There's a chaotic, unsettling edge to that song. I wouldn't go as far
as interpreting what the lyrics meant to her at that point, but to me it's a song about confusion.
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Cloudbusting!
Posts: 4893 (March 18, 2009 14:53:41) Cloudbusting! |
From the present vantage point, then, it makes perfect sense that this would be a great track for Kate to try out her guitar playing!
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Cloudbusting!
Posts: 9593 (March 18, 2009 22:58:14) Cloudbusting! |
I doubt there's a definitive answer to the question (though I'd never have thought some of the things above in a gazillion years, I have to say - WAY
off the mark from my own interpretation!). For me it's kind of a uncertain stance, a feeling of some of those things that always anchored you, or that you
took faith from, being suddenly not there, perhaps to the extent that you can only question their existence or veracity in the first place. It's the
chaotic thoughts that spill from their removal, or the realisation that they may not have been there in the first place. What "they" are is known
only to the person singing the song (in this case, as with muchj of the album, I take it to be Kate, rather than a character). I do think the song is more an
attempted summation of emotions rather than any narrative, pretty much like the whole album for me.
Monty x It is this that brings us together |
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Cloudbusting!
Posts: 3796 (March 19, 2009 01:55:09) Running (Up That Hill) |
a uncertainexcuse me? |
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Breathing
Posts: 5 (March 22, 2009 17:03:04) |
I seem to remember Kate saying this one nearly got the chop from TRS. I think it's actually pretty typical of TRS as a whole which is (by Kate's
greatness) a bit confused and lacking in any real narrative, more of an attempt to make noises per se with Kennedy offset against the guitars, and generally
paddling around in some ruminations about the spiritual world and things above and beyond us.
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Cloudbusting!
Posts: 6767 (March 26, 2009 14:12:32) Cloudbusting! |
This is one of my favourite tracks off The Red Shoes. The way I interpret it is that it's about a break up where your mind is saying it's the best to
part ways but your heart tells you something else ("I'd be good for you").
Aevericka BirgitteSC.com Birgitte's Kate Bush Page "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." -- Albert Einstein |
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Showing (a little devotion)
Posts: 1508 (March 26, 2009 14:36:14) Showing (a little devotion) |
Topcat, to be honest I wouldn't have minded if it had been chopped from TRS ! It's by far one of the Kate Bush songs that I enjoy the least.
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Running (Up That Hill)
Posts: 681 (March 26, 2009 16:11:55) |
To me the best track on TRS, and by far !
"Let me
be weak, let me sleep and
dream....."
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