Cloudbusting

Album: Hounds Of Love (1985)
Charted: 20
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  • I still dream of Orgonon
    I wake up crying
    You're making rain
    And you're just in reach
    When you and sleep escape me

    You're like my yo-yo
    That glowed in the dark
    What made it special
    Made it dangerous
    So I bury it
    And forget

    But every time it rains
    You're here in my head
    Like the sun coming out
    Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen
    I don't know when
    But just saying it could even make it happen

    On top of the world
    Looking over the edge
    You could see them coming
    You looked too small
    In their big, black car
    To be a threat to the men in power

    I hid my yo-yo
    In the garden
    I can't hide you
    From the government
    Oh, God, daddy
    I won't forget

    'Cause every time it rains
    You're here in my head
    Like the sun coming out
    Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen
    I don't know when
    But just saying it could even make it happen, ohh

    And every time it rains
    You're here in my head
    Like the sun coming out
    Look, your son's coming out
    Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen
    I don't know when
    But just saying it could even make it happen, ohh

    Ooh, just saying it could even make it happen

    Yeah-yeah-yeah-ohh
    We're cloudbusting, daddy
    Yeah-yeah-yeah-yo
    Yeah-yeah-yeah-ohh
    Yeah-yeah-yeah-yo
    Yeah-yeah-yeah-ohh

    Your sun's coming out
    Yeah-yeah-yeah-ohh
    Your son's coming out Writer/s: Kate Bush
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Brian from Surrey Ukhaving been a fan of Kate Bush since 1978 i of course loved Cloudbusting when it first came out but it very quickly became very poignant . in february !986 my father died at 60 and the record was still around having been in the charts late 85 . as the story is about a young boy with his father and the fact that it was kate singing it just gets me very time i here it . i wrote to the kate bush fan club and told the story and had a nice reply . i do hope kate got to find out what the song meant to me . thanks for letting me share this with you , Brian
  • Dave from Cardiff, WalesUtah Saints originally hit #4 in 1993 in the UK with "Something Good" based on this song. An inferior remix version was also u UK hit in 2008
  • Gregg from Denver, CoIt was sampled by the Utah Saints in their song "Something Good".
  • Richard from Newport, Isle Of Wight, EnglandThe video for this song was shot on White Horse Hill in Oxfordshire, UK.
  • Brendan from Waitara, New Zealandthe riff for this song was sampled for "something good" by Utah Saints. Both versions of this song are awesome.
  • Lee from Ottawa, CanadaIn the lyrics to this song she says some consider the father to be dangerous like her yo-yo that glowed in the dark(early glow in the dark toys were deemed to contain toxic chemicals) "I hid my yo-yo in the garden, I can't hide you from the government."
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