"Leave It Open"

The Dreaming
Written by Kate Bush

With my ego in my gut,
My babbling mouth would wash it up.: (But now I've started learning how,)
I keep it shut.

My door was never locked,
Until one day a trigger come cocking.: (But now I've started learning how,)
I keep it shut.

Wide eyes would clean and dust
Things that decay, things that rust.: (But now I've started learning how,)
I keep 'em shut.
I keep 'em shut.

Harm is in us.

Harm is in us, but power to arm.

Harm is in us.

Harm in us, but power to arm.

Harm is in us.

("Leave it open!")

Harm is in us, but power to arm.

Narrow mind would persecute it,
Die a little to get to it.: (But now I've started learning how.)
I leave it open.

I kept it in a cage,
Watched it weeping, but I made it stay.: (But now I've started learning how.)
I leave it open.
I leave it open.

Harm is in us.

Harm in us, but power to arm.

Harm is in us.

Harm in us, but power to arm.

Harm is in us.

("Leave it open!")

Harm in us, but power to arm.

Harm is in us.

Harm in us, but power to arm.

Harm is in us.

("Leave it open!")

Harm in us, but power to arm.

Harm is in us.

Harm in us, but power to arm.

Harm is in us.

Har in us, but power to arm.

Harm is in us!

Harm is in us--

Harm in you and in me!

What you letting in?

Tell me what you're letting in.

Say what we're gonna let in!

"We let the weirdness in.*

We let the weirdness in.

We let the weirdness in."

[*--"We let the weirdness in": This last line, heard nine times, was recorded in a very strange, "double-backwards" manner. As a result, it was extremely hard to decipher and, because it had been deliberately omitted from the lyric sheet, its solution became the object of a 2-yearlong competition in the Club. There are some fans who even now argue that in addition to this line, another can be heard when the track is played backwards: "They said they would let us in," or "They said they were buried here," have become popular interpretations. But others believe these lines are only imagined."]

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