The Big Sky

Album: Hounds Of Love (1985)
Charted: 37
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  • They look down
    At the ground
    Missing
    But I never go in now

    I'm looking at the big sky
    I'm looking at the big sky now
    I'm looking at the big sky
    You never really understood me
    You never really tried

    That cloud, that cloud
    Looks like Ireland
    C'mon and blow it a kiss now
    But quick

    'Cause its changing in the big sky
    Its changing in the big sky now
    We're looking at the big sky
    You never understood me
    You never really tried

    This cloud, this cloud
    Says Noah
    C'mon and build me an ark
    And if you're coming, jump
    'Cause we're leaving with the big sky
    We're leaving with the big sky
    We're leaving with the big sky
    We're looking at the
    We're looking at the
    And we pause for the jets
    Hup, hup, in the big sky

    We're leaving with the big sky
    You want my reply?
    What was the question?
    I was looking at the big sky

    We're looking at the
    Tell 'em, sisters
    Rolling over like a great big cloud
    Rolling over with the big sky
    Rolling over like a great big cloud
    Rolling over with the big sky
    Rolling over like a great big cloud
    Rolling over with the big sky
    Rolling over like a great big cloud
    Rolling over with the big sky

    Rolling over like a great big cloud
    Rolling over with the big sky
    Rolling over like a great big cloud
    Rolling over with the big sky
    Rolling over like a great big cloud
    Rolling over with the big sky
    Rolling over like a great big cloud
    Rolling over with the big sky
    Rolling over like a great big cloud
    Rolling over with the big sky
    Rolling over like a great big cloud
    Rolling over with the big sky Writer/s: Kate Bush
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Jim from New Jersey, UsaIf I recall correctly, she confessed in a contemporaneous interview to being a little inebriated when she did the screaming overdubs.
  • Jason from Ibiza, SpainYou're more or less right, Simon. It was Kate's way of responding to hte critical slating of her previoius album The Dreaming; with this song she tries to convey that her music is wide and open and not as aclectic and inaccessible as on The Dreaming LP.
  • Simon from Southampton, EnglandI always thought this song was about Kate's relationship with the press and how they have never understood her. 'The Big Sky' reffers to her artistic flare, and how the press 'look down at the ground, missing'
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