Download Maxwell This Woman 39;s Work Video [BETTER]
Cherly Womeldorff
The song was written expressly for the movie 'She's Having a Baby' by John Hughes and sung by Kate Bush.If you listen to the rhythm of the song there's a slow, steady build up to the anguished 'make it go away'...much like breathing through a contraction build up and the pushing during labor. It's so obvious that this is about a man watching his wife give birth. He 'stands outside this woman's world, this woman's work'. Birth is the one true woman-only work! He encourages, 'I know you've got a little life in you yet, I know you've got a lotta strength left'...she's crying 'make it go away'. The entire movie is about a guy that isn't even sure he wants to be married, but he wakes up to the reality of what he really has when his wife suddenly has a difficult birth and he may lose them both. (He doesn't). The song captures the raw emotions of birth and possibility of death. Very powerful.
The opening lines of the song, "Pray God you can cope, I'll stand outside, this woman's work, this woman's world," express a sense of helplessness and desperation from the man's perspective. He is acknowledging that he is unable to fully understand or experience what his partner is going through, and can only stand by as an observer.
In teasing the song, Tank had a message for anyone trying to release an R&B song on the same day. On social media, he explained, "Look, if you dropping some R&B on Friday, push that s*** back. Push that s*** back. It's gonna get smoky on Friday. If you are not crying your heart out to that woman, if you are not putting it all on the line this Friday and you dropping on the Friday I'm dropping, don't do it."
Parts of this summary have been reproduced from Maxwell M, Semple K, Wane S, Elders A, Duncan E, Abhyankar P, et al. PROPEL: implementation of an evidence based pelvic floor muscle training intervention for women with pelvic organ prolapse: a realist evaluation and outcomes study protocol. BMC Health Serv Res 2017;17:843. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: The text below includes minor additions and formatting changes to the original text.