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• The Sensual World is the sixth studio album by the English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. It was released in October 1989 and peaked at no. 2 on the UK Albums Chart. It has been certified Platinum by the BPI for sales of 300,000 in the UK, and Gold by the RIAA in the US.
  Bush drew inspiration for the title track from the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. Bush realised that Molly Bloom’s soliloquy, the closing passage of the novel, fit the music she had created. When the Joyce estate refused to release the text, Bush wrote original lyrics that echo the original passage, as Molly steps from the pages of the book and revels in the real world.[4] She also alluded to “Jerusalem” by William Blake in a reference to the song’s gestation (“And my arrows of desire rewrite the speech”). The song includes Irish instrumentation (uilleann pipes, fid