Sat in Your Lap Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Theresa_Gionoffrio 

Cover art for Sat in Your Lap lyrics by Kate Bush

"...a song about epistemology... This song is about how hard it is to obtain knowledge, and how when you get it, it often isn't as satisfying as you thought it would be ... 'I hold a cup of wisdom, but there is nothing within' ... You achieve some intellectual goal, and you see that it's just a foothill for a bigger mountain of knowledge behind ... 'I've been doing it for years. My goal is moving near. It says, "Look! I'm over here.", Then it up and disappears' ... (perrific.com).

I must admit, just when I think I'm king (I just begin... to write THE DREAMING...