Eat The Music – English Lyrics

• By: Kate Bush

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the vibrant world of Kate Bush's 'Eat The Music,' a song that invites you to explore the sensory experience of music and emotional connection. Discover playful lyrics and tribal rhythms, and learn how music can be a shared, immersive experience.

[English]

Split me open

With devotion

You put your hands in

And rip my heart out

Eat the music

Does he conceal

What he really feels?

He's a woman at heart

And I love him for that

Let's split him open

Like a pomegranate

Insides out

All is revealed

Not only women bleed

Take the stone out

Of the mango

You put it in your mouth

And pull a plum out

Take a papaya

You like a guava?

Grab a banana

And a sultana

Rip them to pieces

With sticky fingers

Split the banana

Crush the sultana

Split 'em open

With devotion

Put your hands in

And rip their hearts out

Like a pomegranate

Insides out

He's a woman at heart

And love him for that

Take a papaya

You like a guava?

Grab a banana

And a sultana

Rip 'em to pieces

With sticky fingers

Split the banana

Crush the sultana

All emotion

And with devotion

You put your hands in

What ya thinking?

What am I singing?

A song of seeds

The food of love

Eat the music

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
split /splɪt/ A2	verb - to divide something into parts
devotion /dɪˈvoʊʃən/ B1	noun - great love or loyalty
rip /rɪp/ A2	verb - to tear something forcefully
heart /hɑːrt/ A1	noun - the organ that pumps blood noun - the center of emotion
conceal /kənˈsiːl/ B1	verb - to hide something
reveal /rɪˈviːl/ A2	verb - to make known or show
pomegranate /ˈpɒmɪgrænɪt/ B1	noun - a red fruit with seeds
bleed /bliːd/ A2	verb - to lose blood
mango /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/ A1	noun - a tropical fruit
papaya /pəˈpaɪə/ A1	noun - a tropical fruit
guava /ˈɡwɑːvə/ A1	noun - a tropical fruit
banana /bəˈnænə/ A1	noun - a long curved fruit
sultana /sʌlˈtænə/ B1	noun - a type of raisin
crush /krʌʃ/ A2	verb - to press or squeeze hard
emotion /ɪˈmoʊʃən/ A2	noun - a strong feeling
seed /siːd/ A1	noun - part of a plant from which a new plant grows
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - a deep affection verb - to care deeply about someone
sticky /ˈstɪki/ A2	adjective - covered with an adhesive substance

Key Grammar Structures

• Split me open

  ➔ Imperative mood

  ➔ The verb "Split" is in its base form, giving a command: "Split me open".

• You put your hands in

  ➔ Present simple (second person)

  ➔ The verb "put" is in the present simple form used with the subject "you" to describe an action.

• He's a woman at heart

  ➔ Present simple (third person) – contraction

  ➔ "He's" is the contracted form of "He is"; the verb "is" is in the present simple to state a fact.

• Take the stone out of the mango

  ➔ Imperative with phrasal verb "take out"

  ➔ The base verb "Take" followed by the particle "out" forms the phrasal verb "take out", used here as a command.

• What am I singing?

  ➔ Present continuous interrogative

  ➔ "am" + "singing" forms the present continuous; the question word "What" introduces an interrogative clause.

• You like a guava?

  ➔ Present simple question (informal, no auxiliary)

  ➔ The sentence drops the auxiliary "do"; intonation or context signals that it is a question: "You like a guava?"

• And pull a plum out

  ➔ Imperative with phrasal verb "pull out"

  ➔ The base verb "pull" plus the particle "out" creates the phrasal verb "pull out", used here as a command.

• Rip them to pieces with sticky fingers

  ➔ Imperative + prepositional phrase "with sticky fingers"

  ➔ "Rip" is an imperative verb; the prepositional phrase "with sticky fingers" describes the manner of ripping.

• Like a pomegranate

  ➔ Simile with "like"

  ➔ The word "Like" introduces a comparison, creating a simile: "Like a pomegranate".