Sweet and gentle sensitive man
With an obsessive nature and deep fascination
For numbers
And a complete infatuation with the calculation
Of PI

Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity

3.1415926535 897932
3846 264 338 3279

Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
But he must, he must, he must
Put a number to it

50288419 716939937510
582319749 44 59230781
6406286208 821 4808651 32

Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity



Lyrics submitted by dallew

Track duration: 06:10

"Pi" as written by Kate Bush

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    My Interpretation:Asperger Syndrome
    Flag Marsha74on May 29, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:Kate has had many cats. The first two were called Zoodle and Pyewacket. Zoodle died in 1987, and then she adopted a stray cat who had three kittens. She named them Rocket, Sparky and Torchy. Rocket's Tail, from the album The Sensual World, was named after Rocket and dedicated to him, but otherwise the song has nothing to do with the cat.

    KaTe actually called Pyewacket "Pye!" ... or "Pi!" ... :)
    Pye/Pi was part of her family. Calling out Pi, feeding Pye, watching Pi play would have happened every day. And KaTe would certainly have become familiar with the language of Pye!
    Pyewacket can mean "a witch's familiar". So KaTe could have dedicated Pi to her cat Pyewacket, giving the song the witch's dimension... :)
    Flag Theresa_Gionoffrioon July 03, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Sing a Song of Sixpence

    Sing a song of sixpence,
    a pocket full of rye.
    Four and twenty blackbirds,
    baked in a pie.

    When the pie was opened,
    the birds began to sing.
    Wasn't that a dainty dish
    to set before the king?

    The king was in his counting house,
    counting out his money.
    The queen was in the parlour,
    eating bread and honey.

    The maid was in the garden,
    hanging out the clothes,
    When down came a blackbird
    and pecked off her nose!


    The queen was in the studio eating bread and 'honey', while the King was in his counting house counting out his 'priceless junk'! Inspired by four and twenty 'blackbirds' (and of course her honey sand witch), she saw a vision of 'A Sea of Honey' and 'A Sky of Honey'! She was so excited, she made a dainty dish called 'Pi' and set this before 'Bertie', the 'King on top of the Mountain'. Meanwhile, 'Mrs Bartolozzi' was in the garden hanging out the clean laundry, when down came a blackbird and pinched the keyhole! The blackbird left behind a book on 'how to be invisible', but it was written in avian cipher, and took 12 years for Kate and 'Joanni' to decode! She set the translation to music on 'Aerial Tal' (though of course she sings it in cipher, much to the delight of Bertie!). 'Aerial' was released on 31-4-1592 and when everyone opened their Aerial Pie, the birds began to laugh and we all joined in! Kate celebrated with a double rye whiskey, which had been distilling for exactly 3.141592 years!

    Immediately, people hit on the idea that Pi contained far more than just four and twenty clocked blackbirds. They baked up conspiracy theories about steam trains and tarot cards. Was Kate really a golden dawn railway child or was she into the Qabbala? Geeks spent their spare time and loose change trying to become panoramic. Surely the answer must be somewhere in between sunset and nocturn? Or between 4 a.m. and 4 p.m.? Or perhaps it was all one big Architect's Dream, hidden under a veil of diamond dust, and as elusive as the Freemason's 'The Great Architect of the Universe'...
    Flag Theresa_Gionoffrioon June 01, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:SUSPENDED IN PIE

    Pi chugs along like a steam train locomotive. Indeed, Pi is like a trainspotter's hem of anorak, with the blocks of digits representing carriage or wagon numbers! The 'three' (point) is sung like a whistle (as are other digits). And the tune lulls rather like a train journey. Infinity is symbolically represented as an horizonal eight. So maybe KaTe has an obsessive nature and deep fascination for Bertie's model railway. And the 'Pi' locomotive takes us to 'Bertie' ...

    Although KaTe sings the first 54 digits of Pi correctly, in the lyrics booklet it says "58231" instead of the sung "5820".

    What is the significance of the number 31?

    The central document of Thelema is 'Liber AL vel Legis', also known as The Book of the Law. The book is full of mystical references, allusions, statements of morality, and communications in cipher. Crowley and his protegé Charles Stansfeld Jones (Frater Achad) discovered that the number 31 was a numerological key which revealed hidden meanings therein.
    The founder of Golden Triangle Temple did numerological research in the late 1990s, building upon Crowley and Achad's work, and formulated a system of English Qabalah based upon 31, or "EQ31" for short. The EQ31 system does not claim a monopoly on the truths of English Qabalah within Thelema; however, it does produce some remarkable correspondences and insights, and in the founder's own life provided the prompting which led him to Work with T Allen Greenfield and to establish the Temple.

    31 = AL (God, The All), LA (Not, Nothing), KHV (Magical Self), and HVK (To Go, the function of a God).
    The number 666 when translated into Hebrew letters is Mem, Samekh, Vav. These letters correspond with Atus 12, 14 and 5.
    12+14+5=31.
    Note in this connection that Path 31 of the Qabalistic Tree of Life is the Path of the letter Shin, the special letter of 666.

    "In Hebrew "not" is LA, 31, and AL is God, 31, while there is a third 31 still deeplier hidden in the double letter ST, which is a graphic glyph of the sun and moon conjoined to look like a foreshortened Phallus, thus--when written in Greek capitals. This S or Sigma is like a phallus, thus, [Greek], when writ small ; and like a serpent or spermatozoon when writ final, thus, [Greek]. This T or Theta is the point in the circle, or phallus in the kteis, and also the Sun just as C is the Moon, male and female."
    THE EQUINOX OF THE GODS by The Beast 666 Himself
    hermetic.com/crowley/eoftg/…

    The number series 31-666-31 signifies "Alostrael," the magical name of Crowley's mistress, Leah Hirsig, the Scarlet Woman:
    "Alostrael, 31-666-31, the Scarlet Woman Lea my concubine, in whom is all power given, sworn unto Aiwaz, prostituted in every part of her body to Pan and to the Beast, mother of Bastards, aborter, whore to herself, to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the Eucharist of the Excrements in the Mass of the Devil, Sorceress of the Rite of Esau and Jacob..."
    The Cephaloedium Working by Aleister Crowley
    inventati.org/amprodias/thelema/…
    Flag Theresa_Gionoffrioon June 01, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Kate sings the first 78 digits correctly. THERE ARE 78 TAROT CARDS IN THE DECK. So these first sung 78 digits can represent the complete 78 Tarot Cards.

    Kate then misses out 22 digits. THERE ARE 22 MAJOR ARCANA TAROT CARDS. So these missing 22 digits can represent the 22 Major Arcana Tarot Cards.

    But he must, he must, he must
    Put a number to it...

    Gematria is the numerology of the Hebrew language and Hebrew alphabet. The 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet have also been linked to the 22 Keys of the Major Arcana.

    So maybe the "Sweet and gentle sensitive man With an obsessive nature and deep fascination For numbers" is not so much concerned with Pi as with the Qabbalistic Gematriac Approach to Magic... the magic of the infinite circle of God...

    The decimal expansion of Pi is infinite. But KT only sings Pi to 137 decimal places. So why does KaTe stop when she does?
    The Number 137 corresponds with light, the ONE or Whole light that consists of THREE primary rays, the red, green and blue, or SEVEN spectrum colours. And A Sky of Honey is very much concerned with light. :)
    Flag Theresa_Gionoffrioon April 17, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Maybe the mistakes are there to show the kind of guy she likes are the ones that know the numbers are wrong, which ones are wrong and what they should be. Like a call-out song :D
    Flag lizawithazon October 08, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Yeah, the song must be about him then :P
    Flag R4CH3Lon January 14, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:That mistake serves as a beautiful flaw, isn't it? It shows the obssessive love by a mathematician who would concentrate more on whether the figures are right rather than the song itself.
    Flag YouGon August 11, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:aparantly the 77th and 100th decimel are missing.. couldn't care less to be honest
    Flag mateusz14on June 18, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:this song is endearing.
    Flag precipitateon January 07, 2006   Link

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