“Jig of Life” is the tenth track on Kate Bush’s album Hounds of Love, and the fifth track of “The Ninth Wave”, a mini-concept album about a woman drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck.

“Jig of Life” is the third in a series of three songs about the hallucinations experienced by the woman as she slowly freezes and runs out of oxygen. The three songs appear to follow a past, present, future pattern, with “Jig of Life” representing the future.

The drowning woman is confronted by her future self, who tries to convince her to fight for their shared life.