En hommage à l’anniversaire de la fée Kate Bush, voici un...

En hommage à l’anniversaire de la fée Kate Bush, voici un morceau chantée en 1979, sur la scène de Hammersmith, moment particulièrement émouvant.

Elle chante Oh England, My Lionheart, en se mettant dans la peau d’un soldat en train de mourir, se remémorant sa patrie avant de s’éteindre.

Les paroles sont superbes, pas grand-chose à ajouter, et son regard flou, “fading”, ajoute à l’émotion. Kate Bush avait inventé la chanson patriotique tendre et sentimentale.

Oh! England, my Lionheart,
I’m in your garden, fading fast in your arms.
The soldiers soften, the war is over.
The air raid shelters are blooming clover.
Flapping umbrellas fill the lanes
My London Bridge in rain again.
Oh! England, my Lionheart!
Peter Pan steals the kids in Kensington Park.
You read me Shakespeare on the rolling Thames
That old river poet that never, ever ends.
Our thumping hearts hold the ravens in,
And keep the tower from tumbling.
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
I don’t want to go.
Oh! England, my Lionheart!
Dropped from my black Spitfire to my funeral barge.
Give me one kiss in apple-blossom.
Give me one wish, and I’d be wassailing
In the orchard, my English rose,
Or with my shepherd, who’ll bring me home.
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
I don’t want to go.
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
I don’t want to go.