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Post by Lori on Jul 30, 2003 23:12:34 GMT
Just look at your father
And you'll see how you took after him.
Me, I'm just another
Like my brothers Of my mother's genes.
All they ever want for you
Are the things they didn't do.
All they ever wanted - a little clue.
All they ever wanted - the truth.
All they ever wanted - a little bit of you.
All they ever wanted,
But they never did get.
The whims that we're weeping for
Our parents would be beaten for
Leave the breast
And then the rest
And then regret you ever left.
All we're ever looking for
Is another open door.
All we ever look for - another womb.
All we ever look for - our own tomb.
All we ever look for - ooh, la lune.
All we ever look for - a little bit of you, too.
All we ever look for,
But we never do score.
All we ever look for - a god.
All we ever look for - ooh, a drug.
All we ever look for - a great big hug.
All we ever look for - a little bit of you.
All we ever look for - a little bit of you, too.
All we ever look for,
But we never do score.
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Post by brillo69 on Jun 12, 2004 20:53:34 GMT
Just look at your father
And you'll see how you took after him.
Me, I'm just another
Like my brothers
Of my mother's genes.
All they ever want for you
Are the things they didn't do.
All they ever wanted--a little clue.
All they ever wanted--the truth.
All they ever wanted--a little bit of you.
All they ever wanted,
But they never did get.
The whims that we're weeping for
Our parents would be beaten for
Leave the breast
And then the rest
And then regret you ever left.
All we're ever looking for
Is another open door.
All we ever look for--another womb.
All we ever look for--our own tomb.
All we ever look for--ooh, la lune.
All we ever look for--a little bit of you, too.
All we ever look for,
But we never do score.
All we ever look for--a god.
All we ever look for--ooh, a drug.
All we ever look for--a great big hug.
All we ever look for--a little bit of you.
All we ever look for--a little bit of you, too.
All we ever look for,
But we never do score.
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Post by matanchik on Feb 20, 2005 17:35:24 GMT
I just listened to the song and i've been thinking about the lyrics as kate talking about her parents high expectations from her. I really liked the funny background vocals at the song, they are disturbing the song very nicely, kate is a master at background noises. the opening of the song is also very unusual, it sounds to me like MIDI music from an old quest.
any thoughts about the song, he seems lonely.
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Post by Al Truest on Feb 20, 2005 18:01:21 GMT
......any thoughts about the song, he seems lonely. It sounds personal and a bit cryptic to me. There are most likely some references that are not important to know the source of, yet have universal recognition factors. e.g.,. disappointment, distractions and potential. |
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Post by Adey on Feb 21, 2005 2:11:42 GMT
No real thoughts one way or the other. I always assumed it was an appeal for comfort..
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Post by Kevin2 on Aug 23, 2005 11:57:53 GMT
I'm just working my way through the song... if anyone wants to add, correct, or comment - please do.
-Just look at your father
-And you'll see how you took after him.
Who is being addressed?
-Me, I'm just another
-Like my brothers
-Of my mother's genes.
Why this distinction between father's/mother's genes? It seems like it should be explained or revisited at some point. Regardless, Kate (I assume this is a personal song) takes after the mother... ok
"All we ever look for--ooh, la lune"
ooh, la lune? It sounds like "little rooms" to me - not that that means anything to me either.
The walking is interesting...
What strikes me is the initial fast-paced trotting which slows down to a measured walk as she turns around to open first the music door rather than the nature door that she was originally heading for. The fast paced walking - reckless youth? So what does the turnabout mean? I'm guessing the nature door represents the father's genes and the music door the mother's.
Nature then is viewed as being as an adventure while Music is thought of as a retreat or refuge. Was Kate shy or reserved as a child/young adult? I feel strange asking this about a performer of any sort and yet I do know that some of them are actually reclusive by nature. What I'm looking for is some explanation for why she chooses (according to my scheme anyway) the safe door rather than the wilder (and more normal for the young) door.
"- but we never do score" - hopeless? ~ but we never will score...
Where do the lyrics in the initial post come from - they're different from what is on my version of the song. I just noticed that the title is also different.
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Post by stev0 on Aug 23, 2005 15:25:03 GMT
I think in this song, Kate pretty much is agreeing with my agnostic outlook on life - we can look for The Answers all we want, but we're not going to get them ("but we never do score").
I have three theories about the "Ooh, la lune" line, none of which I like so I've never mentioned them before.
1: It's a reference to Debussy's "Au Claire de la Lune", sort of a musician's inside joke. If it is, I don't get it.
2: Literal: "ooh, the moon" - ie, "trying to get the moon", ie, trying for the impossible.
3: She couldn't think of a better rhyme.
Theory number two seems to fit in best with the rest of the song, but it still seems kind of contrived...
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Post by Sheila on Aug 24, 2005 2:47:48 GMT
Wow great thread about a song I always just kind of took real literally. The safe door-never thought that she was really picking any door personally but just showing basic human options. And the La Lune line I always asumed option #2 but all three are thought provking. But I think she is way too careful for option#3. Please forgive any typos I have 3rd degree burns on 2 of my fingers.
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Post by Kevin2 on Aug 25, 2005 12:41:51 GMT
I didn't even realize that la lune means the moon - I thought it seemed familiar...  I'm guessing now that in the beginning of the song, where I was wondering who was being addressed, that it's a conversation with herself (fullhouse in your head tonight...) and foreshadows the later walking sequence as well as the line about leaving the nest (when the nature door is opened) and then regretting it (the opening of the music door) but I'm really rambling now - and yeah basic human options, but I get the feel that this is an autobiographical song. Sheila, ouch... |
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Post by Kevin2 on Aug 29, 2005 7:32:26 GMT
I think in this song, Kate pretty much is agreeing with my agnostic outlook on life - we can look for The Answers all we want, but we're not going to get them ("but we never do score"). I have three theories about the "Ooh, la lune" line, none of which I like so I've never mentioned them before. 1: It's a reference to Debussy's "Au Claire de la Lune", sort of a musician's inside joke. If it is, I don't get it. 2: Literal: "ooh, the moon" - ie, "trying to get the moon", ie, trying for the impossible. 3: She couldn't think of a better rhyme. Theory number two seems to fit in best with the rest of the song, but it still seems kind of contrived... Regarding your three theories: 1. I don't believe I've heard this. Let's say this isn't it. 2. The first thought I had when informed that "la lune" means the moon (after Oh Dear...) was of the song Once In A Blue Moon - a song that wonderfully manages to be both depressing and upbeat. The focus of the song however, unlike its mood, doesn't change to any large degree due to the performer - there is the expectation of something unusually good about to take place - trying my hardest to avoid using Cloudbusting phrasing. So yeah, I think it's an unusual type of event that is being wished for but I think it's most likely a case of wishing for the possible rather than the impossible - the moon is the only extraterrestrial body to have been visited by humans. The moon can also be associated with stars, and when you wish upon a star... -optimism of the space race in general? - a sense of wonder that the moon has historically created. 3. I don't dismiss this possibility. Sheila mentions that Kate is too careful for a lazy rhyme (my interpretation) and that may be true - I don't know nearly enough about Kate to make any determination. I know next to nothing about her other than what I take from her songs - and what I mostly take from her songs (at this point anyway) is that there is an overall theme of confusion which commonly remains unresolved - if she wrote lyrics that always "made sense" that would itself be cause to suspect that she doesn't know what she's talking about. But yeah, I think it's option 2 except that it's a reaching out for the possible. ~~~~~~~~~~~ There is a similarity between this song and Leonard Cohen's "Came So Far For Beauty" that I've been running over but cannot make any coherent comments on. |
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Post by Sheila on Aug 30, 2005 2:44:32 GMT
All I ever look for---a lancing pin All I ever look for---some Vicodin All I ever look for---graft of new skin All I ever look for, but am scared I must score...  Kevan--comparing it to Fullhouse---BRILLIANT! Never thought of that great comparison! Uh. oh. If I'm not mistaken, 6 more posts and I stop "breathing" but....ALLLL LIFE IIIIIISSSSS.......... |
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Post by stev0 on Aug 30, 2005 3:14:15 GMT
Not that this has anything to do with anything posted here, but could someone correct the title of the thread (Look should be present tense).
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Post by tannis on Jul 13, 2008 9:08:25 GMT
KB: "One of my new songs, "All We Ever Look For," it's not about me. It's about family relationships generally. Our parents got beaten physically. We get beaten psychologically. The last line - "All we ever look for - but we never did score." Well, that's the way it is - you do get faced sometimes with futile situations. But the answers not to kill yourself. You have to accept it, you have to cope with it." Sunday Times, "How To Write Songs And Influence People" (1980)gaffa.org/reaching/i80_st.htmlKB: "All we ever look for--" (another title, as it happens) "--is God--in inverted commas--inasmuch as it's something you believe in. Belief is motivation, and without that you don't do anything. I mean, if your 'God' is to have a husband and children, and you actually fulfil that...Many people don't see the thing they love and believe in as 'God'. Most of us aren't happy, really, and it's only because our God isn't complete." I: And work is your God? KB: "It is, really, yes, as everything in my life goes into my music. Everything that happens to me affects me, and it comes out in my music. If I did become perfect, and was no longer vulnerable, perhaps I wouldn't get the same shocks of emotion that make me want to write." Record Mirror, "Among The Bushes" (1980)gaffa.org/reaching/i80_rm.htmlZwort: Would you say that music is something religious, even holy to you? Katie: Some of the most beautiful music ever was written for God, for a loved one, in a state of grief, sorrow, suppression--it seems to be an expression from a person on a higher level...? I'm not sure I understand it at all, but music seems to come out of people when very little else can. Some of the great composers wrote beautiful music but, as people, were monsters or maniacs. People who can't speak properly because of stutters can sing fluently. I saw a clip from a programme about a man who only had a short-term memory--he couldn't remember anything: what he'd just said, just done. He lived in a constant state of panic, because he didn't know where he was, or why he was there. It was terrifying. The only thing he could remember was he wife, and when he sat at the church organ at his local church he could sing a play complete pieces of music without any problems. It was like he'd suddenly been set free. And yet when he was shown a video recording of him doing this, he had no memory of it whatsoever. Music is a strange and beautiful thing. It means a great deal to me. I love listening to and making music. I am very lucky to be able to be involved with music--I hope I always will be. Kate's KBC article, Issue 21 (1987), "Cousin Kate" by Zwort Finkle gaffa.org/garden/kate23.html
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Jul 13, 2008 21:46:33 GMT
The quotes on 'God' and the spiritual and mysteriously powerful aspect of music are fascinating.  I feel quite the same way about poetry... and the story Kate mentioned about the man who had completely lost his memory but was able to transcend that loss while he was immersed in music is so moving.  |
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Post by Kris on Sept 27, 2012 21:55:15 GMT
One of my favorite songs from Never For Ever, some of my favorite Kate Bush quotes ^_^. I don't know why, but this song reminds me of how in school the older students always kind've ignored me. I was in class with mostly older ones. It made me depressed, as I saw other people of my age become great friends with all the upper-class men but me. So, I always think about that disappointment, and then think of All We Ever Look For, especially "All we look for, but we never do score".
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Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy get that dirty shirty clean. Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy make those cuffs and collars gleam. Everything clean and shiny.
I feel quite the same way about poetry... and the story Kate mentioned about the man who had completely lost his memory but was able to transcend that loss while he was immersed in music is so moving. 
