(These lyrics were originally from Andrew Marvick's The Garden.)

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"Houdini"


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Written by Kate Bush 





 I wait at the table, 


 And hold hands with weeping strangers, 


 Wait for you 


 To join the group. 






 The tambourine jingle-jangles. 


 The medium roams and rambles. 


 Not taken in, 


 I break the circle. 






 I want this man 


 To go away now. 






      With a kiss 


      I'd pass the key 


      And feel your tongue 


      Teasing and receiving. 


      With your spit 


      Still on my lip, 


      You hit the water. 






 Him and I in the room 


 To prove you are with us too. 






 He's using code that only you and I know. 


 This is no trick of his. 


 This is your magic. 






 I'd catch the cues, 


 Watching you, 


 Hoping you'd do something wrong. 






 Everybody thinks you'll never make it, 


 But every time, 


 You escape: 






 'Rosabel believe, 


 Not even eternity 


 Can hold Houdini!' 










           "Rosabel, believe!" 








      Through the glass 


      I'd watch you breathe. 






           ("Not even eternity--") 




      Bound and drowned, 


      And paler than you've ever been. 






           ("--will hold Houdini!") 








      With your life 


      The only thing in my mind-- 


      We pull you from the water! 






 (Houdini!) 






 You 


      ("Hou-di-ni...") 


 And I 


 And Rosabel believe. 






©1982 Novercia Ltd. 





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