“Wuthering Heights” is a song by English singer Kate Bush, released as her debut single on 20 January 1978 through EMI Records and inspired by the 1847 Emily Brontë novel of the same name. Bush became the first female artist in the United Kingdom to achieve a number-one single with a self-penned song. “Wuthering Heights” is sung from the perspective of the Wuthering Heights character Catherine Earnshaw, pleading at Heathcliff’s window to be allowed in. It quotes Catherine’s dialogue, including the lyrics “I’m so cold,” “let me in,” and “bad dreams in the night.”
Cathy is in fact a ghost, which the listener may only realise upon reading the novel.
Out on the wily, 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
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
You told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
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
I’m so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold, let me in your window
I’m so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
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
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
Coming back to his side to put it right
Coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Coming back to his side to put it right
Coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold, let me in your window
I’m so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
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
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
I’m so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold
I’m so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold
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