This song is about someone sitting and watching the clouds change, like many of us have done as a child. Sometimes the clouds will change into shapes that remind you of a person or object. "I think we forget these pleasures as adults," Bush explained in a 1985 fan club newsletter. "We don't get as much time to enjoy those kinds of things, or think about them, we feel silly about what we used to do naturally. The song is also suggesting the coming of the next flood - how perhaps the 'fools on the hills' will be the wise ones."
Bassist Martin "Youth" Glover of the British rock band Killing Joke brought a rock-and-roll energy to the track. Bush had a lot of trouble figuring out what the song should sound like and went through a few arrangements and melody lines before she pinned it down. Del Palmer, Bush's longtime bassist/engineer who manned the drum machine on the tune, credits Youth for bringing the right sound. Palmer told Musician in 1985: "He plays that particular style that's just perfect for that kind of track. That was very much a case of getting the right person for the right thing on the right track. Horses for courses."
The music video, directed by Bush, finds the singer on rooftops peering at the sky through giant binoculars. She ends up in a crowd of sky-bound travelers, including aviators, astronauts, and even Superman, then heads to the stage for a performance. Bush put a call in to her fan club to round out the audience for the scene. "Two hundred beautifully behaved people arrived on the day of the shoot," she recalled. "It was very moving, they filled us all up with energy - It made it feel like a real concert."
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