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

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"Kite"

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Written by Kate Bush

Beelzebub is aching in my belly-o.

My feet are heavy and I'm rooted in my wellios.

And I want to get away and go

From all these mirror windows.

I look at eye level, it isn't good enough.

And then I find it out when I take a good look up.

There's a hole in the sky with a big eyeball

Calling me:

"Come up and be a kite,

On a diamond flight!

A diamond kite, a diamond kite.

Ooh, what a diamond!

"A diamond kite

On a diamond flight.

Over the lights, under the moon.

Over the lights, under the moon.

Over the moon, over the moon!"

I feel a rush along my body, like a bullet.

I'm 2-D after a push-and-pull feeling.

And I want to get back to safe home:

I love the homeland dome.*

I got no limbs, I'm like a feather on the wind.

Well, I'm not sure if I want to be up here, at all.

And I'd like to be back on the ground,

But I don't know how to get down--down--down!

"Come up and be a kite,

On a diamond flight!

A diamond kite, a diamond kite.

Ooh, what a diamond!

"A diamond kite

On a diamond flight.

Over the lights, under the moon.

Over the lights, under the moon.

Over the moon, over the moon!"

[*--A demo version has this as "'Cause I love that dome.]

©1978 EMI/Kate Bush

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