The Sensual World is the sixth studio album by the English singer-songwriter Kate Bush, released on 16 October 1989 by EMI Records.

The song includes Irish instrumentation (uilleann pipes, fiddle, whistle) under a breathy rendering of the orgasmic 'Yes' of the original text.

[5] This song has also been used in a long-running UK television advert for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, broadcast between 2005 and 2008, and in the Extras Christmas Special in 2007.

Finally having received permission from the Joyce estate, Bush recorded a new vocal using Molly Bloom's soliloquy as the lyric.

"While Bush's famously fey voice would probably be enough to hold the disparate strands of The Sensual World together, the album takes its cue and colouring too from the hypnotically sinuous sway of the pipes on the title track," wrote Robert Sandall in Q.

"There are some strapping power chords to be despatched here and there, most notably on 'Love and Anger', but the dominant mood is of Oriental reverie, similar in feel to that achieved latterly by Japan.

And in fact the last track on side one, 'Heads We're Dancing', reproduces that mysteriously sproingy bass sound favoured by Mick Karn.