As I’ve read me plenty of different listeners lyrical analysis on this song, it seems we all have a similar idea on what the song is about,besides carrying the theme of the ninth wave. I believe this song is about saying bye to earth but diving into the album lyrically and knowing Kate bush is clever and can make a simple sentence mean so many things,this song has a lot of different meanings. I’ve never really seen anyone mention shes referencing cloud generating machines on this song. She’s going back to the theme on cloudbusting,from talking about “the men in power”, “everytime it rains,you’re here in my head” etc. For those who don’t know she wrote Cloudbusting as a memoir to the book of dreams by Peter reich. You really have to read the book, it reveals so much more not just on cloudbusting but other songs on the album like hello earth. I believe shes talking about actual machines that were made to generate clouds into the sky, “Watching storms Start to form Over America”. I did research on why and how those machines even exist and its alarming. I always questioned why she said “over America”…so it then it clicked. She’s talking about disastrous floods that happened in America? From the beginning of the song you hear a recording of a convo between an astronaut and nasa. They mention the space shuttle “Columbia”,a reference to the great flood of Columbus? “Just watch them swing
With the wind out to sea”. Different words but one is rooted from another, was conceived by the revolutionary Francisco de miranda
as a reference to the New World, especially to all American territories. From the Cloudbusting video having cloud making machines and watching the “men in power”/government go out of their way to manipulate its citizens. The chanting and dark production..to the lyrics having multiple themes. Man vs man? Man vs machine? Man vs nature? If Kate wrote it,it’ll never have one meaning.
As I’ve read me plenty of different listeners lyrical analysis on this song, it seems we all have a similar idea on what the song is about,besides carrying the theme of the ninth wave. I believe this song is about saying bye to earth but diving into the album lyrically and knowing Kate bush is clever and can make a simple sentence mean so many things,this song has a lot of different meanings. I’ve never really seen anyone mention shes referencing cloud generating machines on this song. She’s going back to the theme on cloudbusting,from talking about “the men in power”, “everytime it rains,you’re here in my head” etc. For those who don’t know she wrote Cloudbusting as a memoir to the book of dreams by Peter reich. You really have to read the book, it reveals so much more not just on cloudbusting but other songs on the album like hello earth. I believe shes talking about actual machines that were made to generate clouds into the sky, “Watching storms Start to form Over America”. I did research on why and how those machines even exist and its alarming. I always questioned why she said “over America”…so it then it clicked. She’s talking about disastrous floods that happened in America? From the beginning of the song you hear a recording of a convo between an astronaut and nasa. They mention the space shuttle “Columbia”,a reference to the great flood of Columbus? “Just watch them swing With the wind out to sea”. Different words but one is rooted from another, was conceived by the revolutionary Francisco de miranda as a reference to the New World, especially to all American territories. From the Cloudbusting video having cloud making machines and watching the “men in power”/government go out of their way to manipulate its citizens. The chanting and dark production..to the lyrics having multiple themes. Man vs man? Man vs machine? Man vs nature? If Kate wrote it,it’ll never have one meaning.