Cloudbusting

W H Reich 'discovered' Orgone energy, and made a machine which he claimed he could collect this energy, an orgone accumulator. It was - I believe - to do with the sale and marketing lciams of this machine that he came to grief with the law. Orgonon was also the name given to a body of Aristotle's works by his followers. So dreams of Orgonon can be understood as an alluision to this new form of energy which Reich claimed to have discovered. It could also be viewed as a reference to Reich's banned opus.

The yo-yo that is buried does seem to be a refence to one of the banned books: it is dangerous to read because it is banned, but this is part of the thrill of it. Why the yo-yo is used as a metaphor is a mystery to me. Anyone have any ideas?

The 'son is coming up': seems to me to suggest that the daughter will continue her father's legacy, or perhaps it is meant to suggest the time when Reich's work will be rediscovered (he stipuiated in his will that his books should be put in a sealed container and left thus for 50 years).

Is there anything in Reich's work? As a student of physics I have to say I am highly dubious of orgon energy. There are plenty of forms of electromagnetic energy, many of which are used in medicine (from X rays, to radiotherapy, even to those wrist bands people wear to stop car sickness) there are sure to be many ways in which known forms of energy can have as yet unknown effetcs on the body. There seems to me to be no independent evidence of organon energy. It seems to have little explanatory power except in some accounts of the positive effect of Reich's machine, which are perhaps better explained by the placebo effect.

But it is a great song and does not need to be seen as an appraisal of Reich's work by Bush, but rather a study in daughter's love for a father.