Something Like a Song

[Adey]

Can't add anything to help anyone understand it better. Its a damn nice song though, and worthy enough for a proper recording at the time of the first album. Not of course that I've heard it or any of the Cathy demos. That would be illegal wouldn't it, and of course KB wouldn't like it (can't say I blame her - this is her experimenting/learning after all).

I wonder how these tracks got out - KB usually has this sort of thing well under control.

[Lori]

Adey said:

Its a damn nice song though, and worthy enough for a proper recording at the time of the first album. Not of course that I've heard it or any of the Cathy demos.

Ok... major confusion here for me

You're saying it a 'damn nice song' and then you're saying 'not of course that I've heard it'? Or was that second part sarcasm? It's hard to tell here

[Adey]

Yes Lori, i was being sarcastic, You're right, it doesn't come out very well one needs to hear the tone of voice.
Just to clarify, yes it is a nice song. I enjoyed hearing it because it contains all the elements of what KB would become on her first album - the voice, the unusual (self taught) piano style and the slightly off the wall lyrical content. I can see why Dave Gilmour was impressed if this was typical of the demos he heard.

I haven't got round to hearing all the demo tracks available on the internet yet, but I'm sure I will. They take so long to load and I don't have broadband. I do feel slightly uncomfortable listening to this material, even though it is so fascinating. I suppose really I feel that I should respect KBs wish that this stuff shouldn't be in the public domain as its personal to her.

I am pleased its on the internet though. It stops the bootleggers from making money out of them for which Kate will never get a royalty.

[tannis]

Something Like A Song
Performed and written by KATE BUSH
[Early Demo, 1973]

There's something that sounds like a song
In my garden, by the willow
A piper:
"Oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, hoooo"

I see him when I turn the lights down low,
In my garden, wading through the pond.
Dressed ...
"Oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, hoooo"

Called him by every name I know,
Ev-ery name I know,
But he won't answer me.
He keeps coming forward, but never moving.
Is there no destiny here?

It sounds like a song
In my garden, by the willow
A piper:
"Oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, hoooo"

Something that sounds like a song
In my garden, by the willow
A piper:
"Oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, hoooo"

I see him when I turn the lights down low,
In my garden, wading through the pond.
Dressed ...
"Oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, hoooo"

Called him by every name I know,
Ev-ery name I know,
But he won't answer me.
He keeps coming forward, but never moving.
Is there no destiny here?

Sounds like a song
In my garden, by the willow
A piper:
"Oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, oohoo, ahoo, hoooo"

Something Like A Song - Kate Bush Pictorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=50rDP6Vl-mg

[werafonas]

It's my favorite demo song!

[tannis]

Yes, it's a fine demo. Indeed, Janovic highlights 'Something Like a Song' as the pick of the unreleased early songs.