Kate Bush's '50 Words for Snow'
Lots of singers play characters in their songs. Leave it to Kate Bush to play an element. In the first cut off her new CD, the eccentric singer incarnates water " or, more specifically, its chilled version: snow. "Now I am falling/I want you to catch me," she writes, in the guise of a literal flake, floating down to earth. "Look up/you'll see me." But you won't hear her, given snow's silence. So how do you give th…