The Morning Fog

“The Morning Fog” is the twelfth track on Kate Bush’s album Hounds of Love, and the seventh track of “The Ninth Wave”, a mini-concept album about a woman drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck.

This song concludes “The Ninth Wave”, as the woman survives her near-death experience and returns to consciousness. Having come so close to death, she promises to appreciate life more fully, as well as those who participate in hers.

Kate Bush has stated that the character from “The Ninth Wave” does not die, but many fans have argued that she does. To them, this song is about reincarnation/rebirth, and the lessons retained from the previous life

Well, that's really meant to be the rescue of the whole situation, where now suddenly out of all this darkness and weight comes light. You know, the weightiness is gone and here's the morning, and it's meant to feel very positive and bright and uplifting from the rest of dense, darkness of the previous track. And although it doesn't say so, in my mind this was the song where they were rescued, where they get pulled out of the water. And it's very much a song of seeing perspective, of really, you know, of being so grateful for everything that you have, that you're never grateful of in ordinary life because you just abuse it totally. And it was also meant to be one of those kind of "thank you and goodnight" songs. You know, the little finale where everyone does a little dance and then the bow and then they leave the stage. (Richard Skinner, 'Classic Albums interview: Hounds Of Love. Radio 1 (UK), aired 26 January 1992)