Aerial Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Theresa_Gionoffrio 

Cover art for Aerial lyrics by Kate Bush

Aerial's Secret Tenth Track: Waving or Drowning?

At precisely 7:00 minutes into the 'Aerial' track, Aerial transforms into 'Pianissimo', the secret tenth track. Pianissimo even has its own lyric page featuring silhouetted crows and blackbirds and soundwave of blackbird song. Aerial is about escape and communion, energy and release, and maybe crazy and hysterical desire. But with Pianissimo, has KaTe transformed herself into a beautiful blackbird? Or has she jumped off the roof, into a sea of honey, or into the sun, a sky of honey?

I can’t hear a word you’re saying Tell me what are you singing...

There is a lot of broken and distressed singing on the Aerial track, from 5:36, and it is hard to make out exactly what is being sung. Mansonian Subliminal Messaging? ...

Then towards the end of Aerial, a murder of cawing crows joins in, seemingly enticing her to get up high on the roof and join in with them.

Then eerie, absent silence before Pianissimo's soft and spiritual meditation on the SOUNDWAVE OF BLACKBIRD SONG... The Golden Dawn Chorus...