Moving stranger
does it really matter?
As long as you're not afraid to feel
Touch me, hold me,
how my open arms ache
Try to fall for me
How I'm moved,
how you move me
With your beauty's potency
You give me life,
please don't let me go
You crush the lily in my soul
Moving liquid,
yes, you are just as water
You flow around all that comes in your way
Don't think it over,
it always takes you over
And sets your spirit dancing
How I'm moved,
how you move me
With your beauty's potency
You give me life,
please don't let me go (please don't let me go)
You give me life,
please don't let me go (please don't let me go)
Oh, you give me life,
please don't let me go
You crush the lily in my soul
Soul
‘Moving’ opens with a whale song sampled from Songs of the Humpback Whale, an LP including recordings of whale vocalizations made by Dr. Roger S. Payne.
‘Moving’ is a song written by Kate Bush, included on her debut album The Kick Inside. The song is a tribute to Lindsay Kemp, who was her mime teacher in the mid-Seventies. She explained in an interview, “He needed a song written to him. He opened up my eyes to the meanings of movement. He makes you feel so good. If you’ve got two left feet it’s ‘you dance like an angel darling.’ He fills people up, you’re an empty glass and glug, glug, glug, he’s filled you with champagne.”