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The Sensual World
Never Be Mine

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Never Be Mine

Release date: 16th October 1989

From The Sensual WorldTrack 83:45

Prog-Rock/Art Rock

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About This Track

"Never Be Mine" is a track by Kate Bush, from the album The Sensual World, released 16th October 1989. The track is 3:45 long. It's filed under Prog-Rock/Art Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Kate Bush.

About the Artist

Kate Bush

Kate Bush

Lyrics

Never Be Mine

I look at you and see
My life that might have been
Your face just ghostly in the smoke
They're setting fire to the cornfields
As you're taking me home
The smell of burning fields
Will now mean you and here

And this is where I want to be
This is what I need
This is where I want to be
This is what I need
This is where I want to be
But I know that this will never be mine

Ooh, the thrill and the hurting
The thrill and the hurting
I know that this will never be mine

I want you as the dream, not the reality
That clumsy goodbye kiss could fool me
But looking back over my shoulder
At you, happy without me

This is where I want to be
This is what I need
This is where I want to be
This is what I need
This is where I want to be
But I know that this will never be mine

Ooh, the thrill and the hurting
Will never be mine
The thrill and the hurting

This is what I want
It will never be mine
It can never be
The thrill and the hurting
Will never be mine

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Track details

From The Sensual World

3:451989

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Album

The Sensual World

17th October 1989

Track number

8

Release year

1989

1The Sensual World
3:58
2Love and Anger
4:42
3The Fog
5:07
4Reaching Out
3:12

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