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What's the word in "Wow"?

From: uuwest!user@apple.com (A Modem User)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 14:27:41 PDT
Subject: What's the word in "Wow"?
Comments: Sweet 'n' Clean, my horrible dream
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Now that conversation has resurfaced on many things that have probably
been bled to death in the past, I would like to ask those of you a question.
I am not seeking a "clever hint" or anything, I would like an honest
answer:

In the very beginning of "Wow", Kate moans, under her breath, a word that
sounds very much like "Emily"... Is this true? Is "Emily" what she's saying?
If so, what has this got to do with anything in the song? Or in Kate's
life, for that matter? I myself am a little intrigued; the only Emily I
know of that would have any sort of interest for the very literary Kate
would be Emily Dickinson (whose poetry, if you can go beyond the awful
rhyme scheme, contains themes very comparable to Kate's: basically, love
and death. Dickinson too writes in the personae of many people, including,
quite often, people that have died. Compare this with "Watching You Without
Me" and "All The Love". There are some striking similarities)...

But let's avoid the possible topic created by what's in the parantheses.
I'm just curious as to the origin of the mysterious word.

                            -Uzer
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