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Kate Bush - Before The Fall Lyrics

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  • He got her drunk very quickly:
  • holding hands they found the broom cupboard
  • where he had control as far as the fall,
  • the rasping descent of her tights.
  • When his hand covered wet hairs
  • she took over among furniture wax, dust,
  • the cloying yellow of polishing cloth.
  • When he was sick
  • she comforted him.
  • He couldn't do it properly: the club,
  • the office had left out details of delight.
  • Satisfied, he would collapse out,
  • puzzled at why she still squirmed,
  • held on to him, tears curling into her mouth.
  • This was something stories always omitted:
  • that her joy would seem like pain
  • when he focused after release.
  • In the third week of the relationship
  • she was tripping on organic acid,
  • would stop, pick up a rained out leaf,
  • would give it into his hand,
  • full of dead things before they reached the car.
  • When they drove she sat with mouth open
  • as though photographed on the impact
  • of a stomach punch, her right hand gripping
  • the skin of his leg: he feared her,
  • slapped out sideways into her face.
  • She touched the cut with her tongue,
  • gurgling gratitude for the strange taste.
  • He stood looking through uncleaned windows,
  • concentrated on the yellow of his car below.
  • On the uncarpeted floor, with practice,
  • she closed her eyes and drew on the cigarette.
  • Twill jacket and polo-neck made him sweat,
  • his nape skin red from a hair cut.
  • Between two smokers she smiled up at him;
  • as the weed approached he apologised
  • suddenly wanting familiar territories:
  • beer, to put his hand up her skirt.
  • At the bottom of the limbed stairs
  • he booted the cat, a drop kick in their twenty-five
  • as he imagined her sylph laugh
  • gathering chuckles around the

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