I remember reading once that, when Kate was quite young, her mother had a spell of some sort. When Mrs. Bush recovered, she related that she had something of an out-of-body experience. I can only imagine that this had a certain significance for young Kate, and, for me, it does seem to shed a certain light on what this song means.
Unfortunately, the lyric foundation of this song, though telling and supportive, in many ways, of why I related the story about Kate's mother, is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of providing clues to the songs overall meaning.
To really appreciate the song, one MUST hear it. Kate does an incredible job of aurally recreating a place between here and there, a space in between moments, a whole land/seascape wedged in the crack between one half-spoken word and the next.
And how like Kate Bush to set the simple but powerful act of reaching out to and reassuring a loved one from "the beyond" against a mind-bending backdrop of backmasking, sampling, and world-music (Javanese gamelan), of sorts. "The medium roams and rambles..." delightfully, IMHO...
I remember reading once that, when Kate was quite young, her mother had a spell of some sort. When Mrs. Bush recovered, she related that she had something of an out-of-body experience. I can only imagine that this had a certain significance for young Kate, and, for me, it does seem to shed a certain light on what this song means.
Unfortunately, the lyric foundation of this song, though telling and supportive, in many ways, of why I related the story about Kate's mother, is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of providing clues to the songs overall meaning.
To really appreciate the song, one MUST hear it. Kate does an incredible job of aurally recreating a place between here and there, a space in between moments, a whole land/seascape wedged in the crack between one half-spoken word and the next.
And how like Kate Bush to set the simple but powerful act of reaching out to and reassuring a loved one from "the beyond" against a mind-bending backdrop of backmasking, sampling, and world-music (Javanese gamelan), of sorts. "The medium roams and rambles..." delightfully, IMHO...