Houdini

Album: The Dreaming (1982)
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  • I wait at the table,
    And hold hands with weeping strangers
    Wait for you to join the group

    The tambourine jingle-jangles
    The medium roams and rambles
    Not taken in, I break the circle

    I want this man
    To go away now

    With a kiss
    I'd pass the key
    And feel your tongue
    Teasing and receiving.
    With your spit
    Still on my lip
    You hit the water
    Him and I in the room
    To prove you are with us too

    He's using code that only you and I know
    This is no trick of his
    This is your magic

    I'd catch the cues
    Watching you
    Hoping you'd do something wrong

    Everybody thinks you'll never make it
    But every time you escape

    'Rosabel believe,
    Not even eternity
    Can hold Houdini!'

    "Rosabel, believe!"

    Through the glass
    I'd watch you breathe
    ("Not even eternity")
    Bound and drowned
    And paler than you've ever been
    ("will hold Houdini!")

    With your life
    The only thing in my mind
    We pull you from the water

    (Houdini!)

    You ("Hou-di-ni")
    And I and Rosabel believe Writer/s: KATE BUSH
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • Kasey from Chicago, IlHoudini believed strongly in the spirit world, but was very ANTI-psychic. He made a point of attending seances to learn their tricks to expose them as con artists taking advantage of grieving people. The code word that Houdini promised his wife he would use was "Rosabel." Legend has it that she indeed received the code during a seance with a genuine spiritualist. A recorded voice saying "Rosebud, believe" is heard in Kate's song in reference to this legend.
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