kate bush, what is this, an infant kiss?

I think there is more going on. Sexuality is a continuum and Bush is obviously dealing with some uneasiness here about the feelings aroused by bonding with a child. Sorry, I am stating the obvious, but am not sure what more to say. I am not female and have never had kids, so I can't comment from that experience. I think there is still a certain amount of denial of the extent to which children are sexual creatures. At least as I remember my desires as a child (well past infancy mind you), I don't find them entirely different in kind from what they are today. Maybe it's a necessary denial in light of the risks of vulnerable children being preyed upon. I think it's a pretty bold song, definitely something exceptional in what it's addressing.

back home they call me dirty

More sensible posters will be detered by the somewhat prurient tone being struck in this last line.

back home, sings KB, they call me dirty, quote

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the song was based around a horror film KB had seen - something about an old woman whose dead husband had been reincarnated as a young boy, or something like that. Can't remember what exactly she said about it (I came across the explanation, which was from an interview, on another message board), but I *think* that's the basic gist of it.

Ah - since posting that I did a Google search and have discovered that it wasn't based on a movie but a book - The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James. I just skim-read this summary and analysis but couldn't find anything that particularly related to the song. But I didn't really read it properly.

Contrast w/ David Byrne's "Stay Up Late"

of course, KB based her song on a work of anglo-saxon literature

still it's more abba's slipping through my fingers than momus' guitar lesson

Before I even look at the other responses here: yes, I'm an idiot. It's a line from the song (which I have never memorized--and the tape I had of that album appears to have vanished). My apologies to flavian.