The Song
"Wuthering Heights" is a song by Kate Bush released as her debut single. It appears on her 1978 debut album, The Kick Inside, and was also re-recorded with new vocals for her 1986 "best-of" album The Whole Story. The B-side of the original 1978 single was another song by Bush named "Kite" - hence the kite imagery on the record sleeve.
Written by Bush when she was just 18, the song's lyrics are based on the story of the novel of the same name. Kate Bush was inspired to write the song by the last ten minutes of the 1970 film version of Wuthering Heights.[1] She then read the book and discovered that she shares her birthday (July 30) with Emily Brontë. Bush reportedly wrote the song, for her album The Kick Inside, within the space of just a few hours late at night, looking to the moon through her open bedroom window for nspiration.
"Wuthering Heights" has been recorded by a number of other artists, including Pat Benatar, Hayley Westenra, Josh Pyke, China Drum, Albert Niland, The Decemberists, Jer Ber Jones, Susan Egan, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Australian band Mr. Floppy, Italian singer Cristina Donà, Brazilian heavy metal band Angra (MY FAVORITE VERSION), Dutch rock singer Birgit Schuurman, Placebo and The Puppini Sisters in 2006. It is also performed a cappella by the title character in the British TV series I'm Alan Partridge, played by Steve Coogan. The Icelandic singer Margrét Eir recorded an Icelandic version called "Heiðin há".
Song Lyrics (by Kate Bush)
Out on the winding, 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. but I loved you, too.
Bad dreams in the night
You told me I was going to lose the fight,
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights.
Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I´m so cold,
let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I´m so cold,
let me in 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 roamed 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, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I'm so cold,
let me in your window.
Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I'm so cold,
let me in 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, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I´m so cold,
let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I´m so cold,
let me in your window.
Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I'm so cold.
Kate Bush`s Version