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“Cloudbursting”

Kate Bush

From the Album ‘Hounds Of Love' released September 16, 1985

Single Released on October 14, 1985

Written by Kate Bush

 

To listen to the song click the link below

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ4DeDIh5c0

 

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 going to happen

And 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 going to happen

And I don't know when

But just saying it could even make it happen

 

But every time it rains

You're here in my head

Like the sun coming out

Looks the sun coming out

Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen

And I don't know when

But just saying it could even make it happen

 

Just saying it could even make it happen

The sun's coming out

Your son's coming out

 

[ This song is based on Peter Reich's 1973 memoir, A Book of Dreams. This song is about the close relationship between psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and his young son, Peter, told from the point of view of the mature Peter. It describes the boy's memories of his life with Reich on their family farm, called Orgonon where the two spent time "cloudbusting", a rain-making process which involved pointing at the sky a machine designed and built by Reich, called a cloudbuster. The song also describes Wilhelm Reich's abrupt arrest and imprisonment, the pain of loss the young Peter felt, and his helplessness at being unable to protect his father.

 

On 12 December 1941, five days after Pearl Harbor and the day after Germany declared it was at war with the United States, Reich was arrested in his home at 2 a.m. by the FBI and taken to Ellis Island, where he was held for over three weeks. He identified himself at the time as the Associate Professor of Medical Psychology, Director of the Orgone Institute. He was at first left to sleep on the floor in a large hall, surrounded by members of the fascist German American Bund, who Reich feared might kill him, but when his psoriasis returned he was transferred to the hospital ward. It was later discovered that Reich was the victim of mistaken identity; there was a William Reich who ran a bookstore in New Jersey, which was used to distribute Communist material. The FBI acknowledged the mistake in November 1943 and closed Reich's file.]

 

[ Taken from Wikipedia]

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