Album: The Sensual World (1989)

Charted: 12

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• Mmh, yes
  Then I'd taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth
  Going deep South, go down, mmh, yes
  Took six big wheels and rolled our bodies
  Off of Howth Head and into the flesh, mmh, yes
  
  He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes
  But now I've powers o'er a woman's body, yes
  
  Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
  Stepping out
  
  To where the water and the earth caress
  And the down of a peach says mmh, yes
  Do I look for those millionaires
  Like a Machiavellian girl would
  When I could wear a sunset? Mmh, yes
  
  And how we'd wished to live in the sensual world
  You don't need words, just one kiss, then another
  
  Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
  Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world
  
  And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech, mmh, yes
  And then he whispered would I, mmh, yes
  Be safe, mmh, yes, from mountain flowers?
  And at first with the charm around him, mmh, yes
  He loosened it so if it slipped between my breasts
  He'd rescue it, mmh, yes
  And his spark took life in my hand and, mmh, yes
  I said, mmh, yes
  But not yet, mmh, yes
  Mmh, yes
  Mmh, yes Writer/s: Kate Bush
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Jonathan from AustraliaThere is a literal seedcake which Leopold and Molly Bloom share, mouth to mouth whilst kissing, in the closing pages of Ulysses. It’s very raunchy indeed, but no, it’s not semen. It’s worth reading the passage in question even if you can’t make it all the way through the book from the beginning.
• Fsrr from FffaDO you people realize what a seed cake is? i'd taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth. She's singing about a orgy. Dude sucked off another dude, and she's taking his "seed cake" from another guys mouth think about it. It is a gross song, and in essence she's mocking the listeners, because your singing along not know wtf she's talking about. Majik 101
• Jason from Ibiza, SpainAnd at the end of the song the quote "And my arrows of desire re-write the speech" whilst referring to her having changed Joyce's text, alludes, at the same time, to "Jerusalem" by William Blake. kate had already recorded the music when she realised the final passage from "Ulysses" fitted perfectly into the composition
  
• Emilia from Gdańsk, PolandI love this song! so... sensual! then i'd taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth..... so enchanting!!
• Rob from LondonThe bells at the beginning of the song are the same bells that you can hear on Kate's (excellent) Hound Of Love album on the track Waking The Witch. They kick in at 1min 38secs.

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