Kate Bush - Strange Phenomena

A beautiful song from her first album "The Kick Inside".

Lyrics:

Soon it will be the phase of the moon
When people tune in.
Every girl knows about the punctual blues,
But who's to know the power behind our moves?

A day of coincidence with the radio,
And a word that won't go away.
We know what they're all going to say.
"G" arrives--"Funny, had a feeling he was on his way!"

We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.
We raise our hats to the hand a-moulding us.
Sure 'nuff, he has the answer,
He has the answer
He has the answer, be-duh-be-duh-be-duh-be-duh...
"Om mani padme,
Om mani padme,
Om mani padme hum."*

You pick up a paper. You read a name.
You go out. It turns up again and again.
You bump into a friend you haven't seen for a long time,
Then into another you only thought about last night.

You hear your sister calling for you,
But you don't know where from.
You know there's something wrong,
But you don't want to believe in a premonition.

We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.
We raise our hats to the hand a-moulding us.
Sure 'nuff, he has the answer,
He has the answer
He has the answer, be-duh-be-duh-be-duh-be-duh...
"Om mani padme,
Om mani padme,
Om mani padme hum."*

"Om mani padme hum.
Om mani padme hum.
Om mani padme hum.
Om mani padme hum..."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• kate
• bush
• strange
• phenomena

[scatumbio]

I'm brazilian fan from Kate Bush!

I like strange phenomena from 1980

good times!!!

[Symphonyofflowers]

Thank you, but this song is from 1978.

[appy51]

Super song of a magic album thanks for posting.

[Symphonyofflowers]

Thank you!

[rickonline90]

Actually, he is right, since he is from Brazil where "Strange Phenomena" was released as a single at the end of 1979.

[TheTWIX0]

what a song what an artist, still brill 30 odd years on

[drtnjan]

Om Mani Padme Hum 1:12 2:27



[davefk]

Saw her at the Liverpool Empire 3rd April 1979 a night to remember!

[joha77johaa]

@symphonyoffflowers:

many thanks for the vid, and many greetings to ALL fans of kate!!

[sedilar]

In Brazil, this music was released in compact with Wuthering heights in A-side, wrongly labeled as Kite. Both music was intensively used in cigar commercials (it is an absurd because these music are too beautiful!).

[musicminded64]

Very nice lyrics. (I do not hear we are offered such "level" of lyrics these days, unfortunately.)

[xXxskayaxXx]

all things through me.

[HikiLuoma]

Om mani! Padme.

[oozd]

I have been reading a book about Kate and it said that this song related to period pain...WHAT THE F***?

Apparently they focused on the lyrics 'every girl knows about the punctual blues' and made assumptions from there....