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Wuthering Heights

Artist: Kate Bush

Album: Wuthering Heights

Contains themes requiring parental guidance
Contains themes requiring parental guidance

Minimum age: Age 13+

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These are the lyrics to Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights,' based on Emily Brontë's classic novel. The song contains no explicit language, sexual content, violence, or drug references. The themes are rooted in intense emotional longing, obsessive love, jealousy, possessiveness, and a supernatural/gothic narrative involving a ghost (Cathy) pleading to be let back into the world of the living. Lines such as 'I needed to possess you,' 'my only master,' and 'let me grab your soul away' reflect the dark, brooding tone of the source material and convey emotionally complex and somewhat intense themes of obsession and codependency. While these are not adult in an explicit sense, the emotional weight, gothic imagery, and themes of unhealthy attachment may require some maturity to fully contextualize. There are no sexual undertones, profanity, or graphic content. The content is largely literary and artistic in nature, making it suitable for younger teens with some parental context about the source novel.

Themes
obsessive love
jealousy
possessiveness
gothic imagery
supernatural elements
longing and loss
codependency
literary reference
emotional intensity
unhealthy relationships

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Lyrics

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 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 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 Too long I roam in the night 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 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 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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Analysis performed on August 3, 2026
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