Jig of Life Lyrics

[Chorus]
"Never, never say goodbye
To my part of your life
Oh no, no, no, no, no
Oh, never, never, never, never, never let me go"
She said, "C'mon and let me live, girl" (C'mon and let me live)
She said, "C'mon and let me live, girl" (C'mon and let me live)


[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge: Kate Bush & John Carder Bush]
I put this moment here
I put this moment here
I put this moment
Over here
Over here


[Outro: John Carder Bush]
Can't you see where memories are kept bright?
Tripping on the water like a laughing girl
Time in her eyes is spawning past life
One with the ocean and the woman unfurled
Holding all the love that waits for you here
Catch us now, for I am your future
A kiss on the wind, and we'll make the land
Come over here to where When lingers
Waiting in this empty world
Waiting for Then, when the life spray cools
For now, does ride in on the curl of the wave
And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools
We are of the going water and the gone
We are of water in the holy land of water
And all that's to come runs in
With the thrust on the strand

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“Jig of Life” is the tenth track on Kate Bush’s album Hounds of Love, and the fifth track of “The Ninth Wave”, a mini-concept album about a woman drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck.

“Jig of Life” is the third in a series of three songs about the hallucinations experienced by the woman as she slowly freezes and runs out of oxygen. The three songs appear to follow a past, present, future pattern, with “Jig of Life” representing the future.

The drowning woman is confronted by her future self, who tries to convince her to fight for their shared life.

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