The Sensual World (song)

"The Sensual World"
Single by Kate Bush
from the album The Sensual World
B-side	"Walk Straight Down the Middle" "The Sensual World" (instrumental)
Released	18 September 1989 (1989-09-18)[1]
Genre	Art rock
Length	3:57
Label	EMI
Songwriter(s)	Kate Bush
Producer(s)	Kate Bush
Kate Bush singles chronology
"Experiment IV" (1986) "The Sensual World" (1989) "This Woman's Work" (1989)
Music video
"The Sensual World" by Kate Bush on YouTube

"The Sensual World" is a song by English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. It was the title track and first single from her album of the same name, released in September 1989. The single entered and peaked at No. 12 on the UK Single Chart.

The B-side to the original single was "Walk Straight Down the Middle", a bonus track on the CD and cassette editions of The Sensual World album. The 12-inch vinyl release of the single had a double-grooved A-side so that either the song or an instrumental version of the song would be played depending on where the needle was placed.

Kate Bush later re-recorded the track using words taken from Molly Bloom's soliloquy from James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. Using Joyce's text has been Bush's original intention whilst recording The Sensual World album. This version, re-titled "Flower of the Mountain", appears on the 2011 album Director's Cut.