If I were to make a list of my favorite songs of all time, this song would be on it. Easily.
With a hired plane and no names mentioned, tonight’s the night of the flight. Before you know, I’ll be over the water like a swallow.
There’s no risk. I’ll whisk them up in no moonlight. And though pigs can fly, they’ll never find me posing as the night, and I’m home before the morning.
Give me a break, ooh, let me fly! Give me something to show for my miserable life, something to take. Would you break even my wings like a swallow? Let me — let me go!
Kate Bush, Night Of The Swallow
““In this song she wants to control him and because he wants to do something that she doesn’t want him to she feels that he is going away. It’s almost on a parallel with the mother and son relationship where there is the same female feeling of not wanting the young child to move away from the nest. Of course, from the guy’s point of view, because she doesn’t want him to go, the urge to go is even stronger. For him, it’s not so much a job as a challenge; a chance to do something risky and exciting.”“
