This song deals with the performing artist - It has a sad humour, like Janis Joplin saying: “I just made love to 25,000 people, but I’m going home alone!”
A tells B how they wish they could experience the brilliant thrill suggested to them by the rocket.
But B regards this wish as crazy. To B, the rocket symbolises not to be - brevity, sadness, aloneness, etc.
Years later, B is a performer, like the firework… holding the night in its arms… But when a performer is on stage, most of us can’t see the look in their eyes…
(‘I put on my pointed hat…’ Kate wore a pointed hat for ‘Sat in Your Lap’… and a black and silver suit ON STAGE… and Waterloo Bridge is very close to the London Palladium where she began her first and last tour in 1979.)
B puts so much effort in, but still feels unfulfilled when the show is over… Nobody seems to see me…
(The Dreaming met with a mixed critical reception…)
So B tries again and again to fill “the gap”…
(‘I put on my cloudiest suit…’ may refer to Cloudbusting, etc.)
B is ‘on fire’ with the need to perform, to express herself artistically…
So the song is about B, looking back on that November night, and ironically thinking, ‘Gosh, was it me who said you were crazy!’
This song deals with the performing artist - It has a sad humour, like Janis Joplin saying: “I just made love to 25,000 people, but I’m going home alone!”
A tells B how they wish they could experience the brilliant thrill suggested to them by the rocket. But B regards this wish as crazy. To B, the rocket symbolises not to be - brevity, sadness, aloneness, etc.
Years later, B is a performer, like the firework… holding the night in its arms… But when a performer is on stage, most of us can’t see the look in their eyes… (‘I put on my pointed hat…’ Kate wore a pointed hat for ‘Sat in Your Lap’… and a black and silver suit ON STAGE… and Waterloo Bridge is very close to the London Palladium where she began her first and last tour in 1979.)
B puts so much effort in, but still feels unfulfilled when the show is over… Nobody seems to see me… (The Dreaming met with a mixed critical reception…) So B tries again and again to fill “the gap”… (‘I put on my cloudiest suit…’ may refer to Cloudbusting, etc.) B is ‘on fire’ with the need to perform, to express herself artistically…
So the song is about B, looking back on that November night, and ironically thinking, ‘Gosh, was it me who said you were crazy!’