Thom Jurek at Allmusic gives 50 Words For Snow a 4-star review:
“Despite the length of the songs, and perhaps because of them, it is easily the most spacious, sparsely recorded offering in her catalog. Its most prominent sounds are Bush’s voice, her acoustic piano, and Steve Gadd’s gorgeous drumming — though other instruments appear (as do some minimal classical orchestrations). With songs centered on winter, 50 Words For Snow engages the natural world and myth — both Eastern and Western — and fantasy. It is abstract, without being the least bit difficult to embrace….such a strange pop record, it’s all but impossible to find peers. While it shares sheer ambition with Scott Walkers’s The Drift and PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake, it sounds like neither; Bush’s album is equally startling because its will toward the mysterious and elliptical is balanced by its beguiling accessibility.”
Gary Allen
In The Moonlight
My arms have been empty for so long
Before I met you I had to be strong
Your touch heightens all of my senses
Breaking through all of my defenses
Guess I added some fuel to the fire
Only heating up our mutual desire
In the moonlight on a windswept beach
Even the stars seem within our reach
With the waves lapping at our feet
Can’t resist pulling you close to me
The salt air softly kisses our faces
The dark is full of warm embraces
Everything so beautiful and picturesque
On this magical night we both feel blessed
A small fire crackles by the shore
Sheds light on all I overlooked before
Hear the restless sea calling our names
Without you this night would not be the same
As the full moon begins to descend
Neither of us want this night to end
Gary E Allen 2011 ©