Follow the Nile, Deep to much deeper,
The Pyramids sound lonely tonight.

The sands run red, in Lands of the Pharaohs,
Their symmetry gets right inside me.

I cannot stop to comfort them,
I'm busy chasing up my demon,
Oh, I'm in love with Egypt.

My Pussy Queen, knows all my secrets,
I'll never fall in love again.

I drift with Dunes,
I whisper of the tombs,
They offer me Egyptian Delights.

She's got me with that feline 'guise,
Got me in those Desert eyes,
Oh, I'm in love with Egypt.


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Egypt Lyrics as written by Kate Bush

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    I've always thought this song was really under-rated. Thematically, it contrasts the myths and romantic ideals in someone's head with the scary and dangerous reality. She's singing about Egypt, but she's obviously drawing comparisons with romantic love.

    The wailing voices at the end (to me) represent a sandstorm that slowly approaches and then overwhelms the listener. Very spooky, and it pre-sages the effect she used at the end of Running Up That Hill.

    I love this song, because it sounds like a "bridge" between her early, piano-based work and her artistic leaps forward on the Dreaming and Hounds of Love. In other words, this was Kate testing the waters as a producer, before she just went for it 100%. As a sonic composition, I put Egypt on par with Breathing and Lord of the Reedy River.

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