Kate Bush
Kate Bush - Flower Of The Mountain songtekst
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De oorspronkelijke titel van dit lied is 'The Sensual World'. Voor dit album heeft Kate het lied opnieuw geschreven maar nu met uitsluitend de woorden van James Joyce's, de schrijver van 'Ulysses'.
'Ulysses' is een al in 1922 geschreven boek dat gezien wordt als een van de belangrijkste boeken in het Modernisme. Voor de betekenis hiervan, zie Wikipedia.
Yes, first I gave him the bit of seed-cake out of my mouth And it was leap year like now, yes 16 years ago, my God, after that long kiss I nearly lost my breath, yes He said I was a flower of the mountain, so we are flowers on a woman’s body, yes Stepping out of the page Into the sensual world Stepping out And Gibraltar as a girl where I was a flower of the mountain, yes When I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red, yes And how he kissed me under the Moorish wall And I thought, well, as well him as another Stepping out of the page Into the sensual world Stepping out of the page Into the sensual world And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again, yes And then he asked me would I, yes, to say yes, my mountain flower And first I put my arms around him, yes, and drew him down to me So he could feel my breasts or perfume, yes And his heart was going like mad and yes, I said yes, I will, yes