Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green.
You had a temper like my jealousy:
Too hot, too greedy.
How could you leave me,
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you. I loved you, too.

Bad dreams in the night.
They told me I was going to lose the fight,
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff, it's me--Cathy.
Come home. I'm so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Heathcliff, it's me--Cathy.
Come home. I'm so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Ooh, it gets dark! It gets lonely,
On the other side from you.
I pine a lot. I find the lot
Falls through without you.
I'm coming back, love.
Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream,
My only master.

Too long I roam in the night.
I'm coming back to his side, to put it right.
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering,
Wuthering Heights,

Heathcliff, it's me--Cathy.
Come home. I'm so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Heathcliff, it's me--Cathy.
Come home. I'm so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Ooh! Let me have it.
Let me grab your soul away.
Ooh! Let me have it.
Let me grab your soul away.
You know it's me--Cathy!

Heathcliff, it's me--Cathy.
Come home. I'm so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Heathcliff, it's me--Cathy.
Come home. I'm so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Heathcliff, it's me--Cathy.
Come home. I'm so cold!



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"Wuthering Heights" as written by Kate Bush

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    General Comment:i like how kate is able to retell the tumultuous love story of catherine and heathcliff in song simply named from the novel it originates from. kate bush is rare find in modern day music!
    Flag kelvinng90on November 19, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I think the part about 'let met in-a-your window' is when Mr. Lockwood is sleeping in Cathy's old bed and he dreams that Cathy is outside and is begging him to let her in.
    Flag Horsefeatherson August 05, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:i read the novel when i was 12. re-read it more times than i can count. all i can say is that i love this song and it so captures the spirit of the novel.
    Flag shellydageson November 19, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Yeah, probably...

    Anyways, because the story takes place mostly in flashback, the beginning of the book is really near the end of the story, so most of you are technically correct.

    Also, the only way Wuthering Heights (the book) is actually romantic is if you're into physical and emotional abuse, unhealthy obsessions, and sociopathic behavioral tendencies. Or if you believed what Twilight said about it.
    I mean, it's an extraordinary piece of literature with a compelling story (and it's even of the Romantic era!), but it's not... no. That's all.
    Flag ms.cellophaneon October 16, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Emily Bronte was born on 30 July 1818.

    Kate Bush was born exactly 140 years later, 30 July 1958.

    Coincidence?
    Flag robcbishopon July 31, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This song is so very beautiful. I just love the line "I'm coming back to his side to put it right". Beautiful. My friend Phil did a beautiful cover of this for me.
    Flag georgiadon October 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:*major spoilers for book*

    For everyone saying that the song is just based on the end of the book, I hate to say it but it's not.
    It jumps back and forth a bit but starts off at childhood 'Out on the wiley, windy moors We'd roll and fall in green'. Then progresses through the story of Heathcliff leaving and Cathy when she falls for Edgar, after talking to Nelly of her dream 'Bad dreams in the night.
    They told me I was going to lose the fight'. (the fight being trying to keep both Heathcliff and Edgar, which nearly killed her)

    The chorus happens at the beginning of the book, but because of the narration it actually happens after the main part of the story (if that makes sense).
    Cathy never comes directly to Heathcliff but instead to Lockwood who is staying in her childhood room, after wandering the moors as a ghost for twenty years. Heathcliff was the one who wanted her to appear to him, so he wouldn't be abandoned and soulless, free to join her in death. Though it takes the whole book to tell their story, Heathcliff does actually die soon after she comes to the window as a ghost after having waited twenty years to know that she hadn't just left him in the 'dark abyss'.
    'Ooh, it gets dark! It gets lonely,
    On the other side from you.' could be both about when she's chosen to marry Edgar (Heathcliff's opposite) and also when they're separated by death.
    As for the line 'Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream,
    My only master. ' I really like it but in a way it's not true. Though Heathcliff was often the main factor in her choices and she was ruled by her love for him, Cathy was also caught by her desire for society and that's sorta why she chose Edgar. Edgar also became a master to her, not in the same way, but she never could choose between them, even in death (the locks of hair in the locket, buried between them).

    Anyway, that was rather long but I felt the need to say it. Love the song, in case I didn't mention that :)
    Flag BeeAnchoron September 28, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:her voice = ghostly in this one. haha, it's sweet.
    Flagged JimmieNeverDieson August 25, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:My girlfriend made a cassette recording of this song along with others for me when I moved to Miami in 1986. I was already familiar with the song but completely fell in love with it as I glided down the road for a week.

    Well the tape became scratchy and worn so I bought the song on CD only to find that I had a second version of the song, not the original. I was never able to listen to the second version without pining for the original. I finally did the research and located the original, aaaahhhhh, and life has been wonderful ever since.

    The original is even higher and more haunting than the 2nd. The book itself is stunning and whats more amazing is how well the song captures its raw, emotional essence.

    Also check out the books by her sisters, Charlotte and Anne. They are also classics, particularly Jane Eyre, but written in a different vein than Emily's book. An amazing family, so much potential, so much tragedy.
    Flag reasondethronedon July 29, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights' has the wild, windy moors; its inhabitants possess the same characteristics; and Cathy and Heathcliff oscillate wildly! And the wild moors are indeed wily - they entice, disarm, seduce, and ensnare. And Cathy and Heathcliff w[h]iled away many a happy childhood afternoon over the moors.

    For the December 1980 Paul Gambaccini Radio Programme, KaTe selected "Oh Willow Waly" from the film The Innocents (1961) among her choice selection. The Innocents is, of course, the inspiration for KaTe's The Infant Kiss. And KaTe had seen the film years ago, when she was very young... Just as she had seen Wuthering Heights (1939)... And both films inspired KaTe to write spooky songs...

    Emily Brontë used the background of the Yorkshire moors as the setting for her great and only novel, Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff, a foundling living on the streets of Liverpool, is brought to Wuthering Heights by the then-owner, Mr. Earnshaw, and raised as his own. Earnshaw's son Hindley, resents Heathcliff, seeing him as an interloper and rival. His sister Catherine, however, becomes Heathcliff's inseparable friend, haunting him from beyond the grave...

    Out on the wiley, windy moors...

    KaTe turned Brontë's ghostly novel into a 1978 Number One hit. And who knows, maybe KaTe's Wuthering Heights inspired another ghostly song from over the moors:

    Suffer Little Children by The Smiths - a song that was included on their eponymous debut album (1984)...
    Flag Theresa_Gionoffrioon July 03, 2008   Link

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