The song describes psychologist Wilhelm Reich’s arrest and incarceration through the eyes of his son, Peter, who wrote his father’s story in A Book of Dreams (1973). Reich is the inventor of the cloudbuster, among other things, and died in prison.

The music video, directed by Julian Doyle and conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush, features Donald Sutherland playing a father, and, most famously, Bush playing a young boy.

I still dream of Organon.
I wake up cryin’.
You’re making rain,
And you’re just in reach,
When you and sleep escape me.

You’re like my yo-yo
That glowed in the dark.
What made it special
Made it dangerous,
So I bury it
And forget.

But every time it rains,
You’re here in my head,
Like the sun coming out–
Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen.
And I don’t know when,
But just saying it could even make it happen.

On top of the world,
Looking over the edge,
You could see them coming.
You looked too small
In their big, black car,
To be a threat to the men in power.

I hid my yo-yo
In the garden.
I can’t hide you
From the government.
Oh, God, Daddy–
I won’t forget.

‘Cause every time it rains,
You’re here in my head,
Like the sun coming out–
Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen.
And I don’t know when,
But just saying it could even make it happen.

It’s you and me, Daddy.
It’s you and me… Daddy—
It’s you and me… Daddy—

And every time it rains
You’re here in my head
Like the sun coming out.
Your son’s coming out.
Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen.
And I don’t know when,
But just saying it could even make it happen.

Ooo-ohh, just saying it could even make it happen.

I’m Cloudbusting Daddy.

Your son’s coming out.
Your son’s coming out.

from the 1985 album Hounds of Love