Second verse of third song (“Love and Anger”) as given here:

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that’ll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won’t hold it together.

I’m not a super-fan of Kate Bush, but I like her music well enough, and what’s interesting about this collection of her lyrics is that it’s very much curated by her – this is not a chronological order from early to modern, it’s a compilation of all of her songs to date (2018) grouped by theme. I enjoyed revisiting some old favourites, but also realised how little I know Bush’s complete œuvre, and there is clearly some good stuff that I have missed out on so far. There’s also a very nice and helpful foreword from David Mitchell (the novelist not the comedian, from context). You can get it here.

This was both the top unread book on my shelves acquired in 2018, and the shortest of the unread books acquired in 2018. Next on those piles respectively are Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life, by Samantha Ellis, and Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650, by Clodagh Tait.