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Re: Kate Bush gay?

From: James Lagner <jplagner@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 20:16:01 -0400
Subject: Re: Kate Bush gay?
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> >I've been very busy with 'Cloudbusting' recently (see the other
> message),
> >and something struck me upon listening to the last part of the song.
> Kate
> >suddenly sings:
> >"Everytime it rains/
> >You're here in my head/
> >Like the sun coming out/
> >Like your son's coming out"
> >
> >Is this a reference to homosexuality (coming out of the closet)? Or
> am I
> >completely missing a point here? I've read "A book of life" but
> didn't
> >think that there was a reference to homosexuality there. But this
> phrase
> >is, no doubt, not a coincidence.
>

I've always thought that this referred to Peter Reich "coming out" and
writing "A Book of Dreams" , coming to grips with his relationship with
his father and and the psychological trauma that resulted for him.

James