According to an interview Kate Bush gave to the Australian TV series Countdown in 1980 the song chronicles a wife’s desire to test her husband’s loyalty. To do so, she takes on the nom de plume of Babooshka and sends notes to her husband in the guise of a younger woman—something which she fears is the opposite of how her husband currently sees her.(Hence the barbed lines” “Just like his wife before she “freezed” on him/Just like his wife when she was beautiful.”)[5] The trap is set when, in her bitterness a
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