Sat in Your Lap
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| "Sat in Your Lap" | ||
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| Single cover | ||
| Single by Kate Bush | ||
| from the album The Dreaming | ||
| B-side(s) | Lord of the Reedy River | |
| Released | 21 June 1981 (UK) | |
| Format | 7" single | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | 3:19 | |
| Label | EMI | |
| Writer(s) | Kate Bush | |
| Producer(s) | Kate Bush | |
| Chart positions | ||
| Kate Bush singles chronology | ||
| "December Will Be Magic Again" (1980) |
"Sat in Your Lap" (1981) |
"The Dreaming" (1982) |
"Sat in Your Lap" was the first song to be released from The Dreaming by Kate Bush. The song was released 13 months before the album came out; it was released so early because The Dreaming was nowhere near completion and EMI needed a release from Bush to keep public interest in her and her music.
The song was released on June 21, 1981 and peaked at number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. The song is about man's endless search for knowledge, which is often limited by his unwillingness to devote the effort necessary to attain it.
The demo version of "Sat in Your Lap" contains an extra verse at the start which was later cut out of the song probably because it didn't fit with the song. As with subsequent singles from the album a 12" single was to be issued but was eventually withdrawn.
The B-side to the single was Kate Bush's cover of the song "Lord of the Reedy River" by Donovan, it was Kate Bush's first cover of a song which isn't hers.
