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Originally released as single titled “The Sensual World” for the 1989 album of the same name, “Flower of the Mountain” is the lead track from her first 2011 album Director’s Cut.
Much like the rest of the album, the track features many of the original performances but has had new “scenes” and textu...
[Verse 1]
Yes
First I gave him a 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 near lost my breath, yes
He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes
So we are flowers all a women's body, yes
[Chorus]
Stepping out off the page into the sensual world
Stepping out
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
Stepping out off the page into the sensual world
Stepping out off the page into the sensual world
[Verse 3]
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 all perfume yes
And his heart was going like mad and yes
I said yes I will
Yes
Mmh yes
Flower of the Mountain was written by James Joyce & Kate Bush.
Flower of the Mountain was produced by Kate Bush.
Kate Bush released Flower of the Mountain on Mon May 16 2011.
Originally when I wrote the song “The Sensual World” I had used text from the end of “Ulysses” by James Joyce, put to a piece of music I had written. When I asked for permission to use the text I was refused, which was disappointing. I then wrote my own lyrics for the song although I felt that the o...
Like its original version, the song is written in the key of B flat major.