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 Keith writes:
 > I recall that the KBC announced, many years ago, that,
 > backwards, the lyrics are supposed to be heard as, "We let 
 > the weirdness in."  I may be wrong.
 >
 > -- Keith

You're right about the words, but the crucial point being 
missed here is that the phrase in question is NOT backwards,
but forwards-backwards-FORWARDS-again. Thus the phrase "We
let the weirdness in" is heard simply by playing the track
normally.  Months of KBC confusion (along with entertainment 
for the Bush camp) were engendered by fans' futile and 
audio-mirage-inducing attempts to discern a coherent message
in the phrase when listened to backwards (it sounds a little
like "They said they were buried here," though many variants,
all equally meaningless and irrelevant, were posited over 
time).  All in all this was one of Kate Bush's better 
practical jokes -- at our expense, of course.

-- Andrew Marvick (IED)
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