Cloudbusting -- Kate Bush In Her Own Words

Kite

In the song, the character starts to feel that he is rooted to the ground, but there is a force pulling him up to the sky. A voice calls out, ``Come up and be a kite,'' and he is drawn up to the sky and takes the form and texture of a kite. Suddenly he's flying ``like a feather on the wind,'' and for a while he enjoys it; but the longing for home and the security of the ground overtake these feelings. (1978, Music Talk)

...people haven't noticed that ``Kite'' is [Written like] a Bob Marley song. (1979, KBC 2, see "Wow" entry)

"2-D'' means ``two-dimensional", in the way that the kite appears to be. (1979, KBC 2)

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