Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights Lyrics


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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!

(Repeat 3X)
Heathcliff, it's me Cathy




Come home. I'm so cold!
Let me in-a-your window

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush are heavily inspired by the classic novel of the same name by Emily Bronte. The first verse describes the wild, barren moors that surround the story’s setting of Wuthering Heights. Bush compares the tumultuous relationship between the novel's two main characters, Heathcliff and Cathy, to the ferocity of the wind and the greenery around them. The line "You had a temper like my jealousy, too hot, too greedy" refers to Heathcliff's passionate and violent nature, which both attracts and repels Cathy. The lyrics go on to express Cathy's pain and confusion over Heathcliff leaving her when she needs him most, and the complicated mix of love and hate she feels for him.


The second verse includes references to several important elements of the novel. Bush sings about bad dreams and a sense of foreboding, which represent the dark and ominous themes that run throughout the book. The titular Wuthering Heights is mentioned twice, emphasizing its importance as the setting for much of the novel's action. The chorus of the song, in which Cathy pleads with Heathcliff to come back to her and let her in his window, is a direct reference to a scene in the novel in which Cathy appears to Heathcliff as a ghost and begs him to let her in.


Overall, the lyrics to Wuthering Heights capture the intense, passionate, and often destructive nature of the relationship between Heathcliff and Cathy. They make several allusions to key elements of the novel, while also standing on their own as a haunting and evocative piece of poetry.


Line by Line Meaning

Out on the wiley, windy moors
In the vast, untamed moors, we once frolicked carefree


We'd roll and fall in green
We would play in the green fields and tumble joyously


You had a temper like my jealousy
Your emotions, like my green-eyed envy, tended to boil over


Too hot, too greedy
You were consumed by your passion and desire


How could you leave me
I cannot fathom how you could abandon me


When I needed to possess you?
At a time when I longed to capture your heart


I hated you. I loved you, too
I had a deep, conflicted emotion towards you, caught between love and hate


Bad dreams in the night
I had terrible nightmares that haunted my sleep


They told me I was going to lose the fight
They warned me that I was destined to lose the battle with my inner demons


Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Abandoning the wild and unforgiving nature of Wuthering Heights


Wuthering heights
The symbol of my tumultuous, passionate and tragic relationship


Heathcliff, it's me Cathy
Addressing the one true love, Heathcliff, using endearment in a plea to return


Come home. I'm so cold!
Expressing the intense emptiness felt when Heathcliff is absent


Let me in-a-your window
Pleading to be let in to his heart and home


Ooh, it gets dark! it gets lonely
Feeling the loneliness and fear when separated from loved one


On the other side from you
Being cut off from the one person who completes them


I pine a lot. I find the lot
Missing and longing for Heathcliff day and night, without rest


Falls through without you
My life seems incomplete without you


I'm coming back, love
Telling Heathcliff that there's no stopping their love


Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream
Acknowledging Heathcliff's cruel attitude, but also the only dream and love of her life


My only master
Recognizing that only Heathcliff holds the key to her heart and happiness


Too long I roam in the night
Having waited too long to find her way back to him, wandering aimlessly in the dark


I'm coming back to his side, to put it right
Returning to Heathcliff's side to correct the wrongs, to take up the missing pieces


I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Returning home to the overwhelming passion and intensity of Wuthering Heights


Let me in-a-your window
Yearning to be taken back into his heart and life


Ooh! let me have it
Desperate to hold onto Heathcliff's soul and love


Let me grab your soul away
Expressing intense emotion to possess his heart and soul permanently


You know it's me Cathy!
Affirming the depth and sincerity of love for Heathcliff


Heathcliff, it's me Cathy
Repeating the plea, calling for Heathcliff to come back and take her in


Come home. I'm so cold!
Reiterating the loneliness and emptiness felt in his absence


Let me in-a-your window
Continuing the longing to re-enter his life and heart




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@wecansavenergy

I was privileged to be on the recording and editing team to produce this. Kate was a wonderful young woman to work with. Enjoyed working with her for a number of other edits as well. What great memories, and her music is unique and very special!

@bailyslife9923

No fuckin way! Your generation was the last generation where normal people had access to do extraordinary things. You could say hi to John Lennon on his way in the door, go to Clive Davis and hand him your demo tape. My mom actually went out to California and did the hippie thing. I'm 43 and she STILL will occasionally catch me totally off-guard- "oh yeah, that must have been in '66, yeah, cuz that was before I spent that summer on Charlie Manson's ranch" ...👀... "What??? Oh, you knew about that!" I be like whatever mom. Y'all generation was a trip!

@sydw1173

Seriously? That’s incredible. Her music is its own experience

@koinwonderland4309

@@bailyslife9923 When I was 18 I worked in this little shop and one of the women I worked with was like that. She had moved out to Cali in the 60’s. She always had the coolest craziest stories. I’m 36 and I still think about her all the time. I feel like our whole generation envied their generation so much. Lol

@citeriorcf

That's so cool. This is one of my favorite songs of all time!

@philipboyd7692

Class well done mate her Music and herself Legendary👌

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@danjames4086

I studied Wuthering Heights for my degree. About 15 of us sat in a seminar, and every one of us said there was just something unsettling about it, yet none of us could put out finger on it. Our lecturer suggested that this was precisely why it is a work of genius...it's like nothing else.
A century and a bit later, Kate Bush did this. She took a novel that defies categorisation, and made a song that encapsulates exactly the same 'otherness'. Genius.

@juliansanchezharris5773

This. This exactly what i feel whenever i hear it. Nothing's alike this. A perfect vocal and visual manifestation of a novel of mysteries, both in story as in its author.

@Eppilicious

Great way to describe it. I'm not very familiar with Kate Bush, but whenever I hear this song I know it's made by a genius, because it's a song that has been made by a completely different recipe. Feels extremely otherworldly.

@tinkerlu757

What a beautifully written comment 🥹 ❤

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