'Under Ice' taps into vulnerability, rashness and terror. Spaced out speeding across still life... Maybe a mind-expanding trip taking the protagonist to the edge of self, to the messy beyond self... Speeding above/over ice becomes trapped below/under ice, and the self becomes dangerously split... Coke Crash...
('Ice' is street slang for cocaine; 'Splitting' is street slang for rolling marijuana and cocaine into a single joint; 'Kate Bush' is street slang for 'kind bud', an expensive and potent strain of marijuana!)
@Theresa_Gionoffrio Drug references are sprinkled throughout The Ninth Wave. "Cutting out little lines ... spitting snow." It was the 80's after all, and if Kate didn't partake herself, she certainly saw it up close. Lines of cocaine are often served a mirror - you see yourself peering back as you sniff your lines. This song isn't all about drugs, but the reference is clear to me.
@Theresa_Gionoffrio Drug references are sprinkled throughout The Ninth Wave. "Cutting out little lines ... spitting snow." It was the 80's after all, and if Kate didn't partake herself, she certainly saw it up close. Lines of cocaine are often served a mirror - you see yourself peering back as you sniff your lines. This song isn't all about drugs, but the reference is clear to me.
'Under Ice' taps into vulnerability, rashness and terror. Spaced out speeding across still life... Maybe a mind-expanding trip taking the protagonist to the edge of self, to the messy beyond self... Speeding above/over ice becomes trapped below/under ice, and the self becomes dangerously split... Coke Crash... ('Ice' is street slang for cocaine; 'Splitting' is street slang for rolling marijuana and cocaine into a single joint; 'Kate Bush' is street slang for 'kind bud', an expensive and potent strain of marijuana!)
@Theresa_Gionoffrio Drug references are sprinkled throughout The Ninth Wave. "Cutting out little lines ... spitting snow." It was the 80's after all, and if Kate didn't partake herself, she certainly saw it up close. Lines of cocaine are often served a mirror - you see yourself peering back as you sniff your lines. This song isn't all about drugs, but the reference is clear to me.
@Theresa_Gionoffrio Drug references are sprinkled throughout The Ninth Wave. "Cutting out little lines ... spitting snow." It was the 80's after all, and if Kate didn't partake herself, she certainly saw it up close. Lines of cocaine are often served a mirror - you see yourself peering back as you sniff your lines. This song isn't all about drugs, but the reference is clear to me.