Kate Bush - All The Love

A great song from her 1982 album "The Dreaming". It features Richard Thornton on backing vocals. The voices at the end are sampled from Kate's answering machine.

Lyrics:

The first time I died
Was in the arms of good friends of mine.
They kiss me with tears.
They hadn't been near me for years.
Say, why do it now
When I won't be around, I'm going out?

"We needed you
To love us too.
We wait for your move."

Only tragedy allows the release
Of love and grief never normally seen.
I didn't want to let them see me weep,
I didn't want to let them see me weak,
But I know I have shown
That I stand at the gates alone.

"I needed you
To love me too.
I wait for your move."

All the love, all the love,
All the love we should have given.
All the love, all the love,
All the love you could have given.
All the love, all the love,
All the love...

The next time I dedicate
My life's work to the friends I make,
I give them what they want to hear.
They think I'm up to something weird
And up rears the head of fear in me.
So now when they ring
I get my machine to let them in.

"I needed you
To love me too.
I wait for your move."

All the love, all the love,
All the love you should have given.
All the love, all the love,
All the love we could have given.
All the love, all the love,
All the love...

"Take care, tootle-ooh."
"Bye-bye."
"Bye, so long now." [uncertain]
"Bye!"
"Later."
"Bye-ee!"
"Cheerio."
"Bye!"
"Bye-bye."
"Bye."
"stay healthy." [uncertain]
"Bye-ee!"
"Bye."
"Cheers."
"See ya, luv."
"Bye!"
"Good bye."
"I'll see ya, luv."
"Good night."

"We needed you
To love us too.
We wait for your move."

Category:

Music

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• kate
• bush
• all
• the
• love
• dreaming

[ErroneousClutter]

My favorite Kate album is 'The Dreaming.'

Remarkable piece of work.

[parmenides7]

When your motivation is to express profound feelings and connect to others on a spiritual level, you produce art that is truly personal and original. Kate Bush is that kind of rare artist.

[deadmermaid0000]

this is my fav album

[Yngelel]

No words are enough for this song. The melody in the verses is so ornate and fragile. This song has such atmosphere, it's very sparse, leaving room for reflection. Her voice starts with content tone, then the frustration seeps through giving her phrasing more and more weight...then the little boy's voice, amidst the echoing silence, acts as the consciouns, giving clarity to the self absorbed nature of us humans, to utter love to those we care for, rather than taking it with us to the grave...

[mysteryeva91]

beautiful song, beautiful photos, beautiful Kate :) The Dreaming is just incredible!

[paulpeartsmith]

I wish I could write.

I must have listened to this album hundreds of times, yet it never loses its power to stop me in my tracks. The experience is like immersing yourself into an undersea world of Kate's emotion and insight. Definition of aesthetic:

aes·thet·ic Adjective /esˈTHetik/

Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty

the pictures give great aesthetic pleasure

Giving or designed to give pleasure through beauty; of pleasing appearance

The Dreaming makes darkness aesthetic.

[paulpeartsmith]

Its so lovely to be amongst the kate Clan. The dreaming confirms Kate Bush as the most important female artist ever to come from the UK. I don't say that in an idle fashion either. From the way she approaches her work to the control of her own career she took from the very beginning. We have no right to expect her to be a genius as well. Yet she is.

The Dreaming will be seen as the masterpiece that it is one day. It's amazing that she took that intensity and made The Hounds Of Love. Lucky Us!

[Wormtongue13]

Thanks for putting up so many of Kate's songs.

[orionconflict2007]

sweet song! love the boyz voice iz ultra.

[TheSensualWorld1]

I can t understand why this album didn t happen. The songs and lyrics are so powerful, compelling , dramatic. All the love you should have given, All the love we could have given...it gives me goose-bumps all over (sobs)

[robbyes777]

sorry about the double posting, internet wobblies :-)

[robbyes777]

Really don't know what it is about Kate. It seems to be a very real, emotive love which has grown deeper over the years. I'd liken it to a blending of the listener into the music, for which no other artist has the same impact ... and I love many artists from many different and diverse styles. Thank fuck Kate is there, she is a transport of delight; a reminder that there is an awakening on other levels of conciousness