Deeper Understanding [Director’s Cut] Lyrics
As the people here grow colder
I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend
I was loading a new programme
I had ordered from a magazine
[Pre-Chorus 1: Kate Bush]
"Are you lonely, are you lost?
This voice console is a must"
I press 'Execute'
[Chorus: Bertie McIntosh]
"Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired
I bring you love and deeper understanding
Hello, I know that you're unhappy
I bring you love and deeper understanding"
[Verse 2: Kate Bush]
Well I'd never felt such pleasure
Nothing else seemed to matter
I neglected my bodily needs
I did not eat, I did not sleep
The intensity increasing
'Til my family found me and intervened
But I was lonely, I was lost
Oh, so lost without my little black box
I pick up the phone and press Execute
[Chorus: Bertie McIntosh]
"Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired
I bring you love and deeper understanding
Hello, I know that you're unhappy
I bring you love and deeper understanding"
[Interlude: Bertie McIntosh]
Hello?
Lo-o-o-ove
Hello?
Love...
[Bridge: Kate Bush]
I turn to my computer
Like a friend
"Hello?"
"Hello?"
I need deeper understanding
Give me deeper understanding
A little love for me
A little love for me
Need a little love, a little love for me
They'll never give a little love for me
Bring me deeper understanding
Bring me... my little black box
"Hello?"
"Hello?"
About
“Deeper Understanding” is a song by Kate Bush released as the lead and only single from the 2011 album Director’s Cut. A re-working of the original released on her 1989 album, The Sensual World, the lyrics describe an increasingly intense relationship between a lonely person and a computer. It was her first single release since 2005.
This version of the song is almost two minutes longer than the original and incorporates a harmonica solo at the end. Like all songs on Director’s Cut it features re-recorded vocals, but also includes the voice of her son, Bertie, on the chorus, performing the role of the computer. Combating the audibility issue with the very basic vocoder on The Sensual World, the voice console is now presented as a solitary computerized voice, as with Bush’s original intention.
This is not the first time Bush worked with her son; he makes a brief spoken word appearance on her previous album Aerial on Disc 2, A Sky of Honey.
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No, unlike most songs on the album it retains its original key – F major,
- 4.Deeper Understanding [Director’s Cut]
