Rocket's Tail Lyrics

Rocket's Tail
By Kate Bush
From 1989's "The Sensual World"
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!
3X: Cm Bb F
And still as a rocket,
I land in the river.
Was it me said you were crazy?
2X: Cm Bb F Gm
I put on my cloudiest suit,
Size 5 lightning boots, too.
'Cause I am a rocket
On fire.
With my tail on fire,
Tail on fire,
On fire.
Look at me go, look at look at me