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Happy Ron Hill

Message To Me

Note in the early 1990s I compiled a
book that later was converted into a
webpage of Kate Bush quotes,

http://gaffa.org/cloud/music.html

In the early 1990s I was going
through something terrible and I
felt like I was drowning. I took a
lot of inspiration in my life from
the 2nd side of Kate Bush’s album,

The Hounds Of Love, which was
a concept album called The Ninth
Wave which Kate described as being
“about a person who is alone in the
water for the night. It’s about their

past, present and future coming
to keep them awake, to stop them
drowning, to stop them going to
sleep until the morning comes.”

I would imagine that my life would
be better someday and I that my

future was calling to me to not give
up, maybe even I would be a song-
writer and write a song about that.

Flash forward 25 years and my life

was so much better in every way
and so I finally wrote a song about
reaching back to who I was and
saying what Kate said in her music,
“the future is going to be better”.
Some would say that this is met-

aphysical, some would say this is
healing the “inner child within you.”
Perhaps both, or perhaps I just got a
good song/video out of it.

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