Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Kate Bush – lead vocals
Alan Skidmore – saxophone
Paul Keogh – electric guitar and acoustic guitar
Alan Parker – guitar
Andrew Powell – keyboards
Bruce Lynch – bass guitar
Barry de Souza – drums
The song was written by Kate Bush. Executive produced by David Gilmour. Produced and arranged by Andrew Powell, recorded at AIR London Studios, June 1975.
Note: “The Saxophone Song” is one of the two oldest tracks on the album, recorded in June 1975 when Kate Bush was just 16 years old — two years before the rest of the album was made. The session was funded and executive-produced by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, who had championed Bush to EMI.
Kate Bush – The Saxophone Song Lyrics
You’ll find me in a Berlin bar in a corner, brooding
You know that I go very quiet when I’m listening to you
There’s something special indeed
There’s something special indeed
In all the places where I’ve seen you shine, boy
Something very real in how I feel, honey
It’s in me
It’s in me
And you know it’s for real
Tuning in on your saxophone
The candle burning over your shoulder is throwing
Shadows from your saxophone, a surly lady in tremor
The stars that climb from her bowels
Those stars make towers on vowels
You’ll never see that you had all of me
You’ll never see the poetry you’ve stirred in me
Of all the stars I’ve seen that shine so brightly
Never known or felt in myself so rightly
It’s in me
It’s in me
And you know it’s for real
Tuning in on your saxophone
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