rocket’s tail
by kate bush
from 1989’s “the sensual world”

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that november night , looking up into the sky ,

you said ,

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“hey , wish that was me up there – –

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it’s the biggest rocket i could find ,

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and it’s holding the night in its arms

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if only for a moment .

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i can’t see the look in its eyes ,

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but i’m sure it must be laughing . ”

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but it seemed to me

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the saddEst thing i’d ever seen ,

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and i thought you were crazy ,

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wishing such a thing .

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i saw only a stick on fire ,

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alone on its journey

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home to the quickening ground ,

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with no one there to catch it .

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i put on my pointed hat

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and my black and silver suit ,

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and i check my gunpowder pack

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and i strap the stick on my back .

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and , dressed as a rocket on waterloo bridge – –

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nobody seems to see me .

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then , with the fuse in my hand ,

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and now shooting into the night!

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and still as a rocket ,

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i land in the river .

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was it me said you were crazy?

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i put on my cloudiest suit ,

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size 5 lightning boots , too .

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’cause i Am a rocket

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on fire .

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with my tail on fire ,

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tail on fire ,

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on fire .

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look at me go , look at look at me