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Kate Bush: Cloudbusting Meaning

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  1. anonymous
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    Mar 29th 2018 !⃝

    I still dream of orgonon
    I wake up crying
    You're making rain
    And you're just in reach
    When you and sleep escape me

    You're like my yo-yo
    That glowed in the dark
    What made it special
    Made it dangerous
    So I bury it
    And forget.

    But every time it rains
    You're here in my head
    Like the sun coming out
    Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen…

    The song is about the very close relationship between Austrian psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and his young son, Peter, told from the point of view of the mature Peter. It describes the boy's memories of his life with Reich on their family farm, called Orgonon where the two spent time "cloudbusting", a rain-making process which involved pointing at the sky a machine designed and built by Reich, called a cloudbuster. The lyric further describes Wilhelm Reich's abrupt arrest and imprisonment, the pain of loss the young Peter felt, and his helplessness at being unable to protect his father. The song was inspired by Peter Reich's 1973 memoir, A Book of Dreams, which Bush read and found deeply moving.

  2. anonymous
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    Mar 29th 2018 !⃝

    I still dream of orgonon
    I wake up crying
    You're making rain
    And you're just in reach
    When you and sleep escape me

    You're like my yo-yo
    That glowed in the dark
    What made it special
    Made it dangerous
    So I bury it
    And forget.

    But every time it rains
    You're here in my head
    Like the sun coming out
    Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen…

    The song is about the very close relationship between Austrian psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and his young son, Peter, told from the point of view of the mature Peter. It describes the boy's memories of his life with Reich on their family farm, called Orgonon where the two spent time "cloudbusting", a rain-making process which involved pointing at the sky a machine designed and built by Reich, called a cloudbuster. The lyric further describes Wilhelm Reich's abrupt arrest and imprisonment, the pain of loss the young Peter felt, and his helplessness at being unable to protect his father. The song was inspired by Peter Reich's 1973 memoir, A Book of Dreams, which Bush read and found deeply moving.


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