The Red Shoes

Kate Bush The Red Shoes Lyrics
1.Rubberband Girl

See those trees
Bend in the wind
I feel they've got a lot more sense than me
You see I try to resist

A rubberband bouncing back to life
A rubberband bend the beat
If I could learn to give like a rubberband
I'd be back on my feet
A rubberband hold me trousers up
A rubberband ponytails
If I could learn to twang like a rubberband
I'd be a rubberband girl
A rubberband girl me
A rubberband girl me
Oh I wanna be a rubberband girl
(A rubberband girl, she)

When I slip out
Of my catapult
I gotta land with my feet firm on the ground
And let my body catch up

A rubberband bouncing back to life
A rubberband bend the heat
If I could learn to give like a rubberband
I'd be back on my feet
A rubberband hold me trousers up
A rubberband ponytails
If I could learn to twang like a rubberband
I'd be a rubberband girl
A rubberband girl me
A rubberband girl me
Oh I wanna be a rubberband girl
(A rubberband girl, she)

(Give like a rubberband)
(Twang like a rubberband)
(Snap like a rubberband)

Rub-a-dub-a-dub-a-dub
Rub-a-dub-a-duuuuub
Rub-a-duuuuub

Numb and now
(A rubberband girl, she)
(A rubberband girl, she)

One rubberband won't keep you up
Two rubberbands won't keep you up
Three rubberbands won't keep you up

Here I go.
A-oh,
(A rubberband girl, she)
A-oh, A-oh, A-oh,
A-oh, A-oh, A-oh, A-oh,
A-oh,
(A rubberband girl, she)
A-oh, A-oh, A-oh,
A-oh, A-oh, A-oh, A-oh,
Yeah!
(A rubberband girl, she)

One rubberband won't keep you up
Two rubberbands won't keep you up
Three rubberbands won't keep you up
(A rubberband girl, she)
(A rubberband girl, she)
(A rubberband girl, she)


2.And So Is Love

And you huh?
You do huh?

We let it in
We give it out
And in the end
What's it all about?
It must be love

I give you my
I give you my
You give me your
You give me your joy

We used to say
'Ah Hell, we're young'
But now we see that life is sad

And so is love

(Ooh baby live your life for love)
(Ooh baby live your life for love)

We used to say
'Ah Hell, we're young'
But now we see that life is sad

And so is love

(Ooh baby for the sake of love)
(Ooh baby for the sake of love)

And whatever happens
What really matters?
It's all we've got
Isn't that enough?

(Life is sad and so is love)
You let it slip
You let it slip
(Life is sad and so is love)
I love you more
I love you more for it
(Life is sad and so is love)

Oh yeah, Oh you too.
(Life is sad and so is love)

All for love
(Life is sad and so is love)
Just for the sake of love
(Life is sad and so is love)
You set me free
I set you free
(Life is sad and so is love)


3.Eat The Music

Split me open
'ee'
With devotion
'yay'
You put your hands in
'ooh'
And rip my heart out
'ooh'
Eat the music
'ooh'

Does he conceal
'ee'
What he really feels?
'yay'
He's a woman at heart
'ooh'
And I love him for that
'ooh'
Let's split him open
'ooh'
Like a pomegranate
'ee'
Insides out
'yay'
All is revealed
'ooh'
Not only women bleed
'ooh'
Take the stone out
'ee'
Of the mango
'yay'
You put it in your mouth
'ooh'
And pull a plum out
'ooh'

Take a papaya
You like a guava?
Grab a banana
And a sultana
Rip them to pieces
With sticky fingers
Split the banana
Crush the sultana

Split 'em open
'ee'
With devotion
'yay'
You put your hands in
'ooh'
And rip their hearts out
'ooh'
Like a pomegranate
'ee'
Insides out
'yay'
He's a woman at heart
'ooh'
And love him for that
'ooh'

Take a papaya
You like a guava?
Grab a banana
And a sultana
Rip 'em to pieces
With sticky fingers
Split the banana
Crush the sultana

All emotion
'ee'
And with devotion
'yay'
You put your hands in
'ooh'
What ya thinking?
'ooh'
What am I singing?
'ee'
A song of seeds
'yay'
The food of love
'ooh'
Eat the music
'ooh'

'ee, yay, ooh, ooh'
'ee, yay, ooh, ooh'
'ee, yay, ooh, ooh'
'ee, yay, ooh, ooh'


4.Moments Of Pleasure

Some moments that I've had
Some moments of pleasure

I think about us lying
Lying on a beach somewhere
I think about us diving
Diving off a rock, into another moment

The case of George the Wipe
Oh God I can't stop laughing
This sense of humour of mine
It isn't funny at all
Oh but we sit up all night
Talking about it

Just being alive
It can really hurt
And these moments given
Are a gift from time

On a balcony in New York
It's just started to snow
He meets us at the lift
Like Douglas Fairbanks
Waving his walking stick
But he isn't well at all
The buildings of New York
Look just like mountains through the snow

Just being alive
It can really hurt
And these moments given
Are a gift from time
Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive

And I can hear my mother saying
'Every old sock meets an old shoe'
Isn't that a great saying?
'Every old sock meets an old shoe'
Here come the Hills of Time

Hey there Maureen,

Hey there Bubba,
Dancing down the aisle of a plane,

'S Murph, playing his guitar refrain,

Hey there Teddy,
Spinning in the chair at Abbey Road,

Hey there Michael,
Do you really love me?

Hey there Bill,
D'you turn the lights up?


5.The Song Of Solomon

(Mmm, mmm, song of Solomon)
The Song of Solomon
(Solomon)
The song of everyone
(Everyone)
Who walks the path
(Walk the path)
Of the solitary heart
(Walk the path)
The soul cries out
(Soul cries out)
Hear a woman singing

Don't want your bullshit, yeah
Just want your sexuality
Don't want excuses, yeah
Write me your poetry in motion
Write it just for me, yeah
And sign it with a kiss
Oh.

(Just take)
Mmm, just take any line
(Any line)
'Comfort me with apples
(Comfort me)
For I am sick of love
(Sick of love)
His left hand is under my head
(His left hand)
And his right hand
(His right hand)
Doth embrace me'
(Solomon)
This is the Song of Solomon
(Solomon)
Here's a woman singing

Don't want your bullshit, yeah
Just want your sexuality
Don't want your excuses, yeah
Write me your poetry in motion
Write it just for me, yeah
And sign it with a kiss

And I'll do it for you
I'll be the Rose of Sharon for you
I'll do it for you
I'll be the Lily of the Valley for you
I'll do it for you
I'll be Isolde or Marion for you
I'll do it for you
Ooh I'll come in a hurricane for ya
I'll do it for you
A wop bam boom
'Wop bam boom'

Don't want your bullshit, yeah
Just want your sexuality


6.Lily

Oh thou, who givest sustenance to the universe
From whom all things proceed
To whom all things return
Unveil to us the face of the true spiritual sun
Hidden by a disc of golden light
That we may know the TRUTH
And do our WHOLE duty
As we journey to thy sacret feet

Well I said 'Lily,
Oh Lily I don't feel safe
I feel like life has blown a great big hole
Through me'
And she said
'Child, you must protect yourself
You can protect yourself
I'll show you how with fire'

Oh Oh, Gabriel before me
Oh Oh, Raphael behind me
Michael to my right
Uriel on my left side
In the circle of fire

I said 'Lily,
Oh Lily I'm so afraid
I fear I am walking in the Veil of Darkness'
And she said
'Child, take what I say
With a pinch of salt
And protect yourself with fire'

Oh Oh, Gabriel before me
Oh Oh, Raphael behind me
Michael to my right
Uriel on my left side
In the circle of fire

Diddly, do-a-do, do-a-do, do-a-do, do dum-dum-dum.
Grrrrr.
This is my space.

Oh, Gabriel before me
Ooh
Oh, Raphael behind me
Michael to my right
Uriel on my left side
In the circle of fire

Oh Oh, Gabriel before me
Yo
Oh Oh, Raphael behind me
Michael to my right
Uriel on my left side
In the circle of fire


7.The Red Shoes

Oh she move like the Diva do
I said 'I'd love to dance like you.'
She said 'just take off my red shoes
Put them on and your dream'll come true
With no words, with no song
You can dance the dream with your body on
And this curve,
'Yah-hoo'
Is your smile.
'Yah-hoo'
And this cross,
'Yah-hoo'
Is your heart.
'Yah-hoo'
And this line,
'Yah-hoo'
Is your path.
'Yah-hoo'

Oh it's gonna be the way you always thought it would be
But it's gonna be no illusion
Oh it's gonna be the way you always dreamt about it
But it's gonna be really happening to ya
Really happening to ya
Really happening to ya'

Oh the minute I put them on
I knew I had done something wrong
All her gifts for the dance had gone
It's the red shoes, they can't stop dancing, dancing
And this curve,
'Yah-hoo'
Is your smile.
'Yah-hoo'
And this cross,
'Yah-hoo'
Is your heart.
'Yah-hoo'
And this line,
'Yah-hoo'
Is your path.
'Yah-hoo'

'Oh it's gonna be the way you always thought it would be
But it's gonna be no illusion
Oh it's gonna be the way you always dreamt about it
But it's gonna be really happening to ya'

She gotta dance, she gotta dance
And she can't stop 'till them shoes come off
The shoes do, a kind of voodoo
They're gonna make her dance 'till her legs fall off

Feel your hair come tumbling down
Feel your feet start kissing the ground
Feel your arms are opening out
And see your eyes are lifted to God
With no words, with no song
I'm gonna dance the dream
And make the dream come true
I'm gonna dance the dream
And make the dream come true

She gotta dance, she gotta dance
Yeah
And she can't stop 'till them shoes come off
And the shoes do, a kind of voodoo, yeah
They're gonna make her dance 'till her legs fall off
Call a doctor, call a priest
They're gonna whip her up like a helicopter

Really happening to ya
Really happening to ya

You gotta dance
You gotta dance
You gotta dance
Yeah!


8.Constellation Of The Heart

We take all the telescopes
And we turn them inside out
And we point them away from the big sky
Put your eye right up to the glass, now
And here we'll find the constellation of the heart

Steer your life by these stars
On the unconditional chance
'Tis here where Hell and Heaven dance
This is the constellation of the heart

We take all the telescopes
And we turn them inside out
And we point them away from the big sky
Put your eye right up to the glass, now
And here we'll find the constellation of the heart

The constellation of the heart
The constellation of the heart
The constellation of the heart
The constellation of the heart

We take all the telescopes
And we turn them inside out
And we point them away from the big sky
Put your eye right up to the glass, now
And here we'll find the constellation of the heart

The constellation of the heart
The constellation of the heart
The constellation of the heart

Well we think you'd better wake up capt'n
There's something happen'n up ahead
We've never seen anything like it
We've never seen anything like it before

I want a full report
That's it
What do you mean, 'That's it?'
That's all you get
You'd better do something 'bout it
What am I supposed to do about it?
We don't know, but you can't run away from it
Maybe you'd better face it
I can't do that
C'mon face it!
I can't do that
C'mon, c'mon face it
What am I gonna do?
Is it gonna hurt, is it gonna hurt me bad?

Ooh here's the constellation of the heart

Who said anything about it hurting?
It's gonna be beautiful
It's gonna be wonderful
It's gonna be paradise

(Just being alive, it can really hurt...)
Ooh find me the man with the ladder
It's gonna be beautiful
And he might lift me up to the stars
It's gonna be wonderful
It's gonna be paradise

(Without the pain there'd be no learning
Without the hurting we'd never change.)

Oooh and if you see the woman with the key
It's gonna be beautiful
It's gonna be wonderful
It's gonna be paradise
I hear she's opening up the doors to Heaven

Wonderful
Wonderful
It's gonna be beautiful
Beautiful
It's gonna be wonderful
Wonderful
It's gonna be paradise

Oh and here comes the man with the stick
It's gonna be beautiful
It's gonna be wonderful
It's gonna be paradise

He said he'd fish me out of the moon
It's gonna be beautiful
It's gonna be wonderful
It's gonna be paradise

Ohoh here's the constellation of the heart
It's gonna be beautiful
It is the constellation of the heart
It's gonna be wonderful
It's gonna be paradise

Oh yes it is the constellation of the heart


9.Big Stripey Lie

Oh big stripey lie moving
Like a wavy line
Coming up behi-hi-hind

All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?

Don't want to hurt you baby
I only want to help you
I could be good for you

Your name is being called by sacred things
That are not addressed nor listened to
Sometimes they blow trumpets

Only want to help you
Never want to hurt you
I know I could be good for you

Oh my God it's a jungle in here
You've got wild animals loose in here

Want to help you
Never hurt you
Good for you

Hey all you little waves run away
Mmm run away


10.Why Should I Love You

'Dei-maria'
This chapter says
'Put it out of your mind'
'Dei-maria'
Mmm, give it time
'Dei-maria'

The fine purple
The purest gold
The red of the Sacred Heart
The grey of a ghost
The 'L' of the lips are open
To the 'O' of the Host
The 'V' of the velvet

Of all of the people in the world
Why should I love you?
There's just something 'bout you
There's just something 'bout you
Of all the people in the world
Why should I love you?

Have you ever seen a picture
Of Jesus laughing?
Mmm, do you think
He had a beautiful smile?
A smile that healed

Of all the people in the world
Why should I love you?
There's just something 'bout you
There's just something 'bout you
Of all the people in the world
Why should I love you?

Of all the people in the world

The fine purple
The purest gold
The red of the Sacred Heart
The grey of a ghost
The 'L' of the lips are open
To the 'O' of the Host
The 'V' of the velvet
The 'E' of my eye
The eye in wonder
The eye that sees
The 'I' that loves you

Of all the people in the world

Of all the people in the world

(Of all the people in the world)
Of all the people in the world

Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?

Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?

Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?

Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?
Why should I love you?


11.You're The One

It's alright I'll come 'round when you're not in
And I'll pick up all my things
Everything I have I bought with you
But that's alright too
It's just everything I do
We did together
And there's a little piece of you
In whatever
I've got everything I need
I've got petrol in the car
I've got some money with me
There's just one problem

You're the only one I want
You're the only one I want
You're the only one I want
You're the only one I want

It's alright I know where I'm going
I'm going to stay with my friend
Mmm, yes, he is very good looking
The only trouble is he's not you
He can't do what you do
He can't make me laugh and cry
At the same time
Let's change things
Let's danger it up
We're crazy enough
I just can't take it

You're the only one I want
You're the only one I want
You're the only one I want
You're the only one I want

I know where I'm going
But I don't want to leave
I just have one problem
We're best friends, yeah?
We tied ourselves in knots
Doing cartwheels 'cross the floor
Just forget it alright

Sugar
Honey
Sugar
Whaaaat are you doing??
Treacle!
Sugar.