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Before The Fall
Kate Bush

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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Jig Of Life   Joanni   Kashka From Baghdad   Ken   Kidnapped on a Building Site   King Of The Mountain   King of the Mountain [Enchanced Audio][Multimedia ...   Kite   L'amour Looks Something Like You   L'amour Looks Something Like You   Lake Tahoe   Leave It Open   Let It Be (Live)   Lily   Lord Of The Reedy River   Love And Anger   Love and Anger [Single Mix]   Lyra   Man With the Child in His Eyes [Live]   Maybe   Maybe (Radio)   Misty   Mná na hÉireann   Mna Na Heireann   Moments Of Pleasure   Moments of Pleasure [Album Version]   Mother Stands For Comfort   Moving   Mrs Bartolozzi   Mrs. Bartolozzi   My Lagan Love   My Lagan Love [*]   Ne T'enfuis Pas   Ne T'enfuis Pas   Need Your Loving   Never Be Mine   Nevertheless You'll Do   Nevertheless You'll Do   Night Of The Swallow   Night Scented Stock   No Self Control   Nocturn   Not This Time   Oh England My Lionheart   Oh To Be In Love   On Fire Inside A Snowball   On Fire Inside A Snowball (Hot In The Ice)   On Stage   Once   One 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