This Woman's Work Lyrics

Lyric discussion by matsientst 

Cover art for This Woman's Work lyrics by Kate Bush

This song kills me. It's song writing at it's finest.

I also think this song is about the husband's view of his wife giving birth and having a tough go of it. The one thing I want to point out is the double meaning: I know you have a little life in you yet.

His wife both has a little life in her meaning she can continue, and also literally a little life.

brilliant

Matscientist- i think you nailed the meaning of the song, was browsing thru and saw a couple of entries that were way out there, this song is a definite tear jerker for just about any " loss " in ones life . Even though the song may refer to what you stated , its feeling of hopelessly losing something so dear to yourself that when you allows yourself to fell that, you'll breakdown crying, the pain so unbearable that without the hope and help of god allowing yourself to feel it, and still carry on without going insane,.from...