#The Man with the Child in His Eyes

[the-dose-makes-the-poison]

#kate bush #the man with the child in his eyes #good music #songpoetry #youtube #mine

[samipokanikan]

Front cover of the Japanese release of Kate Bush’s “Them Heavy People / The Man With The Child In His Eyes” single on 7-inch vinyl alongside paper insert with lyrics in English and Japanese

#kate bush #vinyl #them heavy people #the man with the child in his eyes #the kick inside

[djohnhopper]

FAVOURITE TRACKS:

Love this song. The title has got to be one of the most evocative few words for me - pure poetry!

Kate Bush - The Man with the Child in His Eyes - Official Music Video

#youtube #kate bush #the man with the child in his eyes #favourite tracks

[vsthepomegranate]

Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979)

#1970s music #lurex #christmas #the man with the child in his eyes

[dynamoe]

"Look at these dumb Zoomers learning about Kate Bush from Stranger Things. What cultural philistines!"

meanwhile...

#Kate Bush #alan partridge #steve coogan #comic relief #stranger things #wuthering heights #1999 #Them Heavy People #Don't Give Up #Rolling the Ball #The Man with the Child in His Eyes #Babooshka #kate bush cover #kate bush medley #running up that hill #british comedy #comedy #parody #Youtube

[magneticelectric]

Kate Bush - The Man With The Child In His Eyes (UK 7" Single)

#Kate Bush #The Man With The Child In His Eyes #The Kick Inside

[quitecontraryy]

I hear him, before I go to sleep

And focus on the day that's been

I realise he's there

When I turn the light off and turn over

Nobody knows about my man

They think he's lost on some horizon

And suddenly I find myself

Listening to a man I've never known before

Telling me about the sea

All his love is 'til eternity

#the man with the child in his eyes #kate bush #the kick inside #1978 #female artists #female writers #Spotify

[marionsinspirations]

So one night at a party, my friend casually said “Kate Bush? Yeah my uncle was her guitarist and playing the solo on Wuthering Heights” and I abruptly had to go hide and cry in the bathroom 

#Kate Bush #true story #wuthering heights #hounds of love #running up that hill #emotions #the man with the child in his eyes #Glasgow #uk life

[mydadlistenstothis]

New podcast episode is up! This week, we’re pretty tired from running up that hill so we’re going to try to relax to the haunting, unique music of Kate Bush!

#youtube #my dad listens to this #kevin the dad #juliet the daughter #kate bush #wuthering heights #pat benatar #cloudbusting #the man with the child in his eyes #breathing #wow #hounds of love #running up that hill #stranger things #max's song #army dreamers #sat in your lap #experiment iv #the dreaming #babooshka #escape #the pina colada song

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: May 26, 1978

Lyrics:

I hear him, before I go to sleep

And focus on the day that's been

I realise he's there

When I turn the light off and turn over

Nobody knows about my man

They think he's lost on some horizon

And suddenly I find myself

Listening to a man I've never known before

Telling me about the sea

All his love is 'til eternity

Ooh, he's here again

The man with the child in his eyes

Ooh, he's here again

The man with the child in his eyes

He's very understanding

And he's so aware of all my situations

When I stay up late

He's always waiting, but I feel him hesitate

Oh, I'm so worried about my love

They say, "No, no, it won't last forever!"

And here I am again, my girl

Wondering what on Earth I'm doing here

Maybe he doesn't love me

I just took a trip on my love for him

Songwriter: Kate Bush

Ooh, he's here again

The man with the child in his eyes

Ooh, he's here again

The man with the child in his eyes

SongFacts:

Bush wrote the song when she was 13 and recorded it at the age of 16. It was recorded at AIR Studios, London, in June 1975 under the guidance of David Gilmour. She has said that recording with a large orchestra at that age terrified her. The song was Bush's second chart single in the United Kingdom where it reached number six in the summer of 1978. In the United States, the single was released in December of the same year. It became her first single to reach the Billboard pop singles chart, peaking at number 85 early in 1979. Bush performed this song in her one appearance on Saturday Night Live, singing on a piano being played by Paul Shaffer.

The single version slightly differs from the album version. On the single, the song opens with the phrase "he’s here!" echoing, an effect added after the album was released.

According to the sheet music published in Musicnotes.com by EMI Music Publishing, the song is set in the time signature of common time, with a moderate tempo of 88 beats per minute. It is written in the key of E minor.

In 2010, former radio and television presenter Steve Blacknell, Bush's first boyfriend, offered the original hand-written lyrics for the song for sale through music memorabilia website 991.com. The lyrics were written "in hot pink felt tip, complete with Kate Bush's own little pink circles in place of dots over the "I"'s."

Bush herself has never stated who she wrote the song about, but Blacknell has stated that a person close to Bush had told him the song was written about him. It had long been assumed it was about Gilmour.

The song received the Ivor Novello Award for "Outstanding British Lyric" in 1979.

#Youtube #Spotify #Kate Bush #The man with the child in his eyes #70s #70s charts #70s music #1978 #alternative indie #alternative #pop #progressive pop #rock #adult contemporary #pop rock #music #hit of the day #music video #video of the day #youtube video #chaos radi o #good music #lyrics #songfacts #95

[mothermass]

Kate Bush - The Man with the Child in His Eyes

#kate bush #the man with the child in his eyes #music #mood #Spotify

[turtleblogatlast]

That middle child feel when you’re the one who successfully gets you and your siblings out of trouble only to immediately get jumped by them afterwards

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #pouring one out for all my fellow middle children 😔 #Donnie betraying his fellow middle child like this…even being the one to throw him under the bus first smh #no but like if I was Leo here I’d be like wtf guys #it does make me wonder if Leo constantly was the one who got them all out of messes #and in turn the main one who took the fall if his attempts failed rip #we kinda see this often in the series tbh? where Leo takes point when it comes to talking out a situation #maybe it started very very young as seen in this short #(actually there is no ‘if’ Leo was the one doing this he literally WAS at least twice as tots from what we’re shown) #side eyes Bug Busters where Leo gets his bros out of being turned into clowns and immediately gets blasted 😭 #no thanks in sight #can’t even blame him for being a sore winner there I would be too lol #and then he gets thrown off a building like man all around an f tier day for Hamato Leonardo #side note but Leo’s face stripes look especially pink in this lighting and I really like when we can see that pinkness because it looks cute

[randomprose]

i get him. i get him so much. i am the eldest kid and this is how i look like. the eyes, the bags under his eyes, the cigarette, yeah yeah that's The Long Suffering Eldest Kid Look™️

BUT WAIT. YOU KNOW WHAT GETS ME HERE?? YOU KNOW WHAT?? HE CHENG WAS GETTING A MASSAGE. HE WAS RELAXING. He probably just finished a whole day of meetings and doing mob boss things and then he gets a fucking call that he’s stupid little brother and his stupid friends have done more stupid things and he has to bail them out AGAIN because Brother Qiu would kill them himself if he doesn’t.

So now here He Cheng is. In his bathrobe. Outside. In the rain. Watching as his stupid brother and his stupid friends climb out of Qiu's carーwhich was actually He Cheng's and which he thinks Qiu probably damaged on purpose just to get back at him foisting He Tian and his friends at him. He Cheng probably didn't even get to finish his massage. He's having the universal Eldest Child experience of something going wrong the second he tries to relax all because his little brother is such a little shit. That cigarette dangling from his mouth is his last life line to sanity.

#19 days #he cheng #my god i relate to this man on a spiritual level #shitposts #i am in love with him your honor #his eyes are so dead is just so quintessential Eldest Child #your eyes will go dead too if you have HT as a brother #HC is exhausted not bc of his job but bc HT is such a piece of shit #mine

[thwackk]

people underestimate the comedic potential of eobard’s existence and his extreme petty hatred for this one (1) dude

bonus because i just feel like barry would think he’s just hallucinating or something but came up with the WORST way to tell his mom that

#barry allen #the flash #eobard thawne #dc #nora allen #my art lol #he sucks at being normal #eobard thawne sleep paralysis demon #also please appreciate barry’s weird ass room i spent way too long on it #it looks like shit but yaknow. i tried my best #i rlly suck at stuff like that #of course rhis kid likes star trek AND star wars #are you insane? why limit it to one?? #poor nora #eobard just wanted to put shaving cream in his hand but found he was not there and was thoroughly irritated by this and decided #to put shaving cream on his pillow but now there’s a child lookin at him with the autism eyes #i wonder how many small stupid inconveniences this man causes when he gets bored #how many of his pencils have you broken when he’s in the middle of a test #how many times have you moved furniture slightly out so he stubs his toe #this man is so petty i wouldnt put it past him yaknow #im telling you guys the comedy is endless #barry’s hair looks like bart’s a little bit cause i was trying to make it look messy and unruly #whoops

[kaladinkholins]

(concept art of young taigen - source ; art credit: @abigaillarson)

i cannot get over this concept art of young taigen. god.

just look at this angry bratty boy, too many feelings that he doesnt know what to do with! an abused 9 year old kid in poverty always playing with sticks in the dirt, obsessed with greatness and dreaming to escape his decrepit village—and he does!

he does escape. he runs away. this angry little boy, all claws and teeth and biting words uttered with a lisp, going on the run into a world he's never seen before until he makes his way to kyoto. and knowing him he probably forced his way in to be accepted by the dojo, growling and kicking even as he's thrown out, back into the streets, too stubborn to take no for an answer and never knowing when to give up.

taigen calls mizu a dog, weak, an orphan, a scrawny street urchin. but i can't help but think that he feels so bold to use those words because he had them spat at him too.

because taigen had the idea of "this is how the world is" beat into him from birth. he learned quickly that if you couldn't beat the world you could join it. but that meant losing your way, your values, your principles. and isn't that what true honour is? not just titles and status and glory?

we don't get to see what taigen, as a child surrounded by peers encouraging and goading him on, would've actually done if that meteor hadn't fallen right in front of them at that very moment. would he have really tried to throw that stone on mizu, killing her? we don't know.

but we do see what taigen (his true self, with no one around) does, when presented with the same opportunity. when mizu passes out in front of him, unconscious and near death, vulnerable, the path to restoring his honour lays itself out for him on a silver platter. and he wants to take it, wants to kill mizu, to claim what is his and return to kyoto and get back everything he'd worked tooth and nail for. he feels like it's what he should do. but he doesn't.

and later, again he is presented with the chance to betray mizu, likely offered by heiji shindo to get his rank reinstated within the shindo dojo. and again, taigen doesn't take it. he refuses. "stupidly loyal," fowler calls him later. loyal, like a dog.

because now, pulled away from the sneering looks and jeering words of people around him, telling him that this is what the world is, taigen had met ringo and mizu, two outcasts who refuse to follow a predetermined path to greatness. and so inside something blooms in him. something like hope. a chance to live in a world that doesn't kick you down every chance it gets, to live in a world where genuine kindness and and love and friendship and even weakness is possible, allowed to simply exist without fear.

because he'd been running away from the very idea of it the whole time. when he ran from kohama, he never looked back, never wanted to remember what it was like to be a child, afraid and hungry and angry and hurting, without the words to make sense of it, desperately wishing for something. something more. he doesn't know what. but he hears stories of great swordsmen and decides, yes, this must be it. this is what i want: glory, greatness. the twisted seed gets planted and thrives in this barren land.

and when he returns to kohama with mizu and ringo, he at last is forced to stop running. he must face the child within him again, and he tells that child to put down the stones in his hand, tells him to stop barking at anything that moves or looks at him wrong.

the child drops the stone, and taigen buys dumplings instead, gives them to mizu. the child within him, wide-eyed at the prospect of friendship, moves him to pick up a hammer and toss it to mizu. he's smiling inside even as he does it; giggling like a kid hiding a silly prank. as soon as mizu drops the hammer after him, he leaps at her, tackling her to the ground and they wrestle and laugh unbridled like two children playing while the adults aren't around to barge in and yell at them.

and then his gaze catches on mizu's lips, he stares into mizu's eyes, a sparkling blue, inviting like the open sea in good weather.

it's a man's desire that takes hold then, the child in him sinking away again, and he curses himself for it, because it ruins the moment.

everything goes to shit from there, and then it's back to being a man, back to putting on his grown-up's armour to play hero.

it fails. the shogun dies. fowler's beatings reopen all the wounds left by heiji shindo's torture. "honour is meaningless," mizu tells him. "nothing comes from being a samurai but death."

the words follow him, and he follows the words.

as everything burns down, he runs, leaving the fire behind him, and sees akemi, as well as the verdure of spring behind her, calling him. he does not hesitate then to hold his hand out to her, inviting her to come with him. "i don't want to be great," he says. "i just want to be happy."

what is happiness to him? perhaps he doesn't know it yet, or perhaps he does. but really, i believe happiness is what the child in him always wanted but never received. happiness is a home.

#taigen blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai #taigen #blue eye samurai meta #meta dissertations.pdf #fandom.rtf #shut up haydar #i remembered that taigen is a brat and then i remembered that he was abused #and then remembered how he does not hesitate to elaborate all his traumas to mizu during their trip to the tea party #this man is a boy! he is so unhealed he never got to grow up #i find it so so interesting how the show explores discrimination in such a way that is so nuanced #taigen is a bad man. but before that he was an abused boy. in poverty. #like the dimensions and complexities of societal discrimination. ie class gender race. is imo v well done #for a show with just like 8 episodes?? #like the way everything is written in such a purposeful way allows sooo much to be explored i love it #also in terms of colour analysis i just realised taigen as a child is ORANGE. *not* green #you know orange like mizu's glasses? orange like a complementary colour to blue? yeah #also i figured i should tag this as #taimizu #i mean it doesnt HAVE to be romantic but. i just think mizu and taigen should be each other's home. (with ringo) #and swordfather and akemi ofc but theyre long distance #mizu ringo taigen write to akemi frequently and visit swordfather every so often #visiting akemi on occasion #sorry im being delusional in the tags #i just can NOT stop talking about these damn blorbos i am truly unwell 🤒🤧

[somnas-writes]

Sharing my writing on this website feels weird but

Imagine an Azriel that doesn’t exist. He’s a ghost in the eyes of the world, he isn’t known publicly, by the courts or even by his closest friends.

His job is the night courts spy, his job is to be sneaky and unknown, so why would he be a public figure? Why would there be records of his existence?

There are rumors about a male made of shadow, it’s a horror story maids tell the children of lords, so they behave. It’s an urban legend among the higher fae, the night courts monster that has no problem going undetected through your wards.

The high lords have a suspicion that a shadow spymaster exists, but they’ve never seen him nor do they have any proof.

Azriel who makes appearances as often as the planets align, whose existence is only confirmed to the Inner Circle of the night court. Even then, they rarely meet face to face, only relying messages through letters and notes.

An azriel who doesn’t exist, but desperately wants to.

#do you guys GET IT #HE ISNT A PERSON IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD BECAUSE OF HIS USE #HE WANTS TO EXIST AND BE KNOWN #something something Eris is the first one outside the night court to officially meet Azriel #At a court ball to celebrate the high lord of nights marriage #he sees a man out of the corner of his eye on a balcony and approaches him #azriel is taken aback but entertains the conversation for a few brief moments before disappearing once again #something something azris happens and azriel discovers he has value beyond being a fucked up former child soldier #somnas.writes #azriel acotar #azriel shadowsinger #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #acotar au #azriel centric #my pookie #Rhys wanting to know azriel more but due to the nature of their positions he can’t so he has Cassian know him instead