‘In The Warm Room’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was originally released on her second album Lionheart. The song was written a few years before as a piano & vocal ballad.

Performances

Kate was asked to perform on the children’s TV programme Ask Aspel, where she wanted to present the new song ‘In The Warm Room’, but the BBC felt this song was too explicitly sexual, so she opted for Kashka From Baghdad instead. As a result, there are no televised performances of ‘In The Warm Room’. The song, however, was performed during the Tour of Life and one of these performances ended up in the Live In Germany TV special.

Cover versions

‘In The Warm Room’ was covered by Yuri Kono and Yvonne Smeets.

Kate about ‘In The Warm Room’

I’m always getting accused of being a feminist. Really I do write a lot of my songs for men, actually. In fact, ‘In The Warm Room’ is written for men because there are so many songs for women about wonderful men that come up and chat you up when you’re in the disco and I thought it would be nice to write a song for men about this amazing female. And I think that I am probably female-oriented with my songs because I’m a female and have very female emotions but I do try to aim a lot of the psychology, if you like, at men.

Personal Call, BBC Radio 1, 1979

Lyrics

In the warm room
Her perfume reaches you
Eventually you’ll fall for her
Down you’ll go
To where the mellow wallows

In the warm room
She’ll touch you with your Mamma’s hand
You’ll long to kiss those red lips
But when you do
It’ll feel like kicking a habit

She’ll tell you that she’ll stay
So you’d better barricade the way out
She’ll tell you she’s true
She’ll tell you she loves you
She’s waiting in that warm room

In the warm room
She prepares to go to bed
She’ll let you watch her undress
Go places where
Your fingers long to linger

In the warm room
You’ll fall into her like a pillow
Her thighs are soft as marshmallows
Say hello
To the soft musk of her hollows

She’ll tell you that she’ll stay
So you’d better barricade the way out
She’ll tell you she’s true
She’ll tell you she loves you
She’s waiting in that warm room

In the warm room
She’s waiting in that warm room