Kate Bush Rockets Tail (for Rocket) Lyrics

Rockets Tail (for Rocket) Lyrics

That November night, looking up into the sky, 

You said, 



"Hey, wish that was me up there-- 

It's the biggest rocket I could
find, 

And it's holding the night in its arms 

If only for a
moment. 

I can't see the look in its eyes, 

But I'm sure it must be
laughing." 



But it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd ever seen,


And I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing. 



I saw
only a stick on fire, 

Alone on its journey 

Home to the quickening
ground, 

With no one there to catch it. 



I put on my pointed
hat 

And my black and silver suit, 

And I check my gunpowder pack


And I strap the stick on my back. 

And, dressed as a rocket on
Waterloo Bridge-- 

Nobody seems to see me. 

Then, with the fuse in
my hand, 

And now shooting into the night 

And still as a rocket,


I land in the river. 



Was it me said you were crazy? 

I put on my cloudiest suit, 

Size 5 lightning boots, too. 



'Cause I am a rocket 

On fire. 

Look at me go, with my tail on
fire, 

With my tail on fire, 

On fire. 

Hey, look at me go,
look at me...