Kate Bush - Never Be Mine

A beautiful song from "The Sensual World". The song features The Trio Bulgarka on backing vocals.

Lyrics:

I look at you and see
My life that might have been:
Your face just ghostly in the smoke.
They're setting fire to the cornfields
As you're taking me home.
The smell of burning fields
Will now mean you and here.

This is where I want to be.
This is what I need.
This is where I want to be.
This is what I need.
This is where I want to be,
But I know that this will never be mine.

Ooh, the thrill and the hurting.
The thrill and the hurting.
I know that this will never be mine.

I want you as the dream,
Not the reality.
That clumsy goodbye-kiss could fool me,
But I'm looking back over my shoulder
At you, happy without me.

This is where I want to be.
This is what I need.
This is where I want to be.
This is what I need.
This is where I want to be,
But I know that this will never be mine.

Ooh, the thrill and the hurting
Will never be mine.
The thrill and the hurting,
It will never be mine.
It can never be.
The thrill and the hurting
Will never be mine.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• kate
• bush
• never
• be
• mine

[dunkelfalke]

Yes. And the most hurting thing is always "looking back over my shoulder at you happy without me".

[rainbowsalads]

i cant sleep there are so many great songs . : )

[JackFox13]

That smell reminds me....

[davidjeffrey1]

Its criminal that this song was not voted by fans in the classic rock prog magazine this month top 25 Kate songs....No 1 in my books !

[freeradt]

Ditto MrRIchielew!!! I want to meet Kate on the other side....and write music with her..

[MrRichielew]

like a lot of her material,always brings a lump too my throat.such a fantastic talent.i hope i can hear kates music in my next life.

[donnagibson]

I Love you Still Mitch Hager always have always will...

[Kokinoification]

This song is so tragically beautiful and one of Kate's best. Its so honest, raw and emotional and the feeling of resignation makes it seem all the sadder. The Trio Bulgarka just devastate you. The music is so layered and its really quite deep because there are lots of things going on here - loss, despair, yearning, resignation ....as it would be when you still love someone who may or may not have moved on. Heartbreaking. This and the DC version are perfect.

[battistinialain]

great artist and so unique, inspiration for such a carrier ! definitly fan

[hendokuyaku]

she wrote this song thinking about me

[hendokuyaku]

tori amos copied her? im sad

[modifiedcontent]

@Picnic ('... a new level with a bass guitar (example 2.29-2.30) ...')

Ever since she took complete creative control with The Dreaming she has always used fretless bass a lot, often played by Del Palmer, here played by jazz musician Eberhard Weber. He is also on Houdini from The Dreaming and Sunset from Aerial.