The Ninth Wave Lyrics

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Cover art for The Ninth Wave lyrics by Kate Bush

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A VAMPYRIC DIGRESSION, Nosferatu by FW Murnau (1922). Harker left Nina with his good friends, Westenra and his wife Lucy... Jonathon travels to the Carpathians... INNKEEPER: You must not leave now! The evil spirits become all-powerful after dark! ... THE BOOK OF THE VAMPIRES: and it was in 1443 that the first Nosferatu was born... DRIVER: We will go no further, sir. Not for a fortune! We will go no further. Here begins the land of the phantoms... And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him... "Nina, my beloved- Don't be unhappy. Though I am far away, I love you. This is a strange country. After my first night in the castle, I found two large bites on my neck. From mosquitoes? From spiders? I don't know. I have had some frightful dreams, but they were only dreams. You mustn't worry about me. I am leaving immediately to return to Bremen--and to you." ... THE BOOK OF THE VAMPIRES: Nosferatu drinks the blood of the young, the blood necessary to his own existence... NINA: (suddenly sitting up) Jonathon! Jonathon! Hear me! ... The doctor laid Nina's trance to some unknown disease. Since then I have learned that she had sensed the menace of Nosferatu that very night. And Harker, far away, had heard her cries of warning... ... ...

Watching You Without Me - Nina paranormally watches Jonathon... What separates them, what makes communication impossible, is the Nosferatu...

... ... ...Nosferatu was en route; and with him disaster approached Bremen... Nosferatu held Renfield under his influence from afar... ATTENDANT: That patient who was brought in yesterday has gone out of his mind... Nina was often seen alone among the dunes, watching and waiting for her husband's return... NEW PLAGUE BAFFLES SCIENCE A mysterious epidemic of the plague has broken out in eastern Europe in the port cities of the Black Sea, attacking principally the young and vigorous. Cause of the two bloody marks on the neck of each victim baffles the medical profession... Aboard the Demester, first one man was stricken, then all... BURGOMASTER: The plague is here! Stay in your houses! ... Nina reads from 'The Book of the Vampires': Only a woman can break his frightful spell--a woman pure in heart--who will offer her blood freely to Nosferatu and will keep the vampire by her side until after the cock has crowed... Enter the Nosferatu... The cock crows. The Nosferatu looks up from drinking at Nina's neck... RENFIELD: The Master is dead... And at that moment, as if by a miracle, the sick no longer died, and the stifling shadow of the vampire vanished with the morning sun. THE END.