This is one of those songs that will, ultimately, prove very difficult to cover by another artist as it is, in a way, the kind of song that only Kate Bush could create. Does that make sense? Anyhow...
As for the meaning, it appears that it might be about...hmm...I just don't know. It is certainly filled with thought provoking concepts, images, etc., but it seems to be more concerned with creating an overall mood, of despair, loss, wanting, fear, loathing, than anything else.
"Big Stripey Lie" is one of my favorite Kate Bush songs, but mostly because it challenges me so much. Actually, the entire song reminds me of an acid trip. On one hand, I feel that, by saying that, I'm diminishing the song to the level of, "Wow, man, that's a freaky song"; but, in another sense, I do feel that, with her references to the activities of preternatural agents, loose animals, and that "big, stripey lie" which, for some reason, becomes a big, stripey line similar to those that I "saw" in the acid trips of my realm of experience, I might not be too far off the mark.
Also, regardless of what the official lyric sheet says about this song, I know that I hear, "Evil can be good for you!"
This is one of those songs that will, ultimately, prove very difficult to cover by another artist as it is, in a way, the kind of song that only Kate Bush could create. Does that make sense? Anyhow...
As for the meaning, it appears that it might be about...hmm...I just don't know. It is certainly filled with thought provoking concepts, images, etc., but it seems to be more concerned with creating an overall mood, of despair, loss, wanting, fear, loathing, than anything else.
"Big Stripey Lie" is one of my favorite Kate Bush songs, but mostly because it challenges me so much. Actually, the entire song reminds me of an acid trip. On one hand, I feel that, by saying that, I'm diminishing the song to the level of, "Wow, man, that's a freaky song"; but, in another sense, I do feel that, with her references to the activities of preternatural agents, loose animals, and that "big, stripey lie" which, for some reason, becomes a big, stripey line similar to those that I "saw" in the acid trips of my realm of experience, I might not be too far off the mark.
Also, regardless of what the official lyric sheet says about this song, I know that I hear, "Evil can be good for you!"
IMHO...