Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on her eighth studio album Aerial in 2005.

Versions

There is only one studio version of this song.
A live version appears on the album Before The Dawn.

Performances

The song was performed live as part of Kate’s Before The Dawn shows in London, 2014.

Lyrics

We went up to the top of the highest hill and stopped
Still

It was just so beautiful
It was just so beautiful
It was just so beautiful

This is where the shadows come to play twixt the day
And night
Dancing and skipping
Along a chink of light

Somewhere in between
The waxing and the waning wave
Somewhere in between
What the song and silence say
Somewhere in between
The ticking and the tocking clock
Somewhere in a dream between
Sleep and waking up
Somewhere in between
Breathing out and breathing in
Like twilight is neither night nor morning

Not one of us would dare to break
The silence
Oh how we have longed
For something that would
Make us feel so…

Somewhere in between
The waxing and the waning wave
Somewhere in between
The night and the daylight
Somewhere in between
The ticking and the tocking clock
Somewhere in between
What the song and the silence say

Somewhere in between
Breathing out and breathing in

The chorus:
Goodnight sun
Goodnight sun

The sun:
Goodnight mum

Credits

Drums: Stuart Elliott
Bass: Del Palmer
Guitar: Dan McIntosh
Keyboards: Kate
Vocal & Hammond Organ: Gary Brooker