Yep, she's a ghost. She's Cathy, the deceased lover of Heathcliff who haunts him in the novel Wuthering Heights. Kate saw a TV movie of the novel as a teen and was inspired to write the song. Part of the reason she sings in this distinctive way is to sound otherworldly/haunting. Her vocal quality varies a lot among her music. Look up Running Up That Hill and This Woman's Work.
She writes all her own songs and makes up her own dances!! She was 19 here. When I was 19 I could barely get myself out of bed before noon. She's marvelous
these are the lyrics 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 You told me I was going to lose the fight Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering Wuthering Heights Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home I'm so cold, let me in your window Heathcliff, it's me, 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 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, Cathy, I've come home I'm so cold, let me in your window Heathcliff, it's me, 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, Cathy, I've come home I'm so cold, let me in your window Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home I'm so cold, let me in your window Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home I'm so cold Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home I'm so cold, yeah It's me, Cathy, I've come home I'm so cold, yeah
@@TysheenOrane definitely check out the novel, one of the greats like Kate-her voice and video were designed to create the spirit of Kathy who is " on the other side" but is trying to get in through her lover Heathclifs window-Kate said she deliberately exaggerated her voice to create the spirit image-she is a genius and by all accounts the nicest person you can meet,very active in her community- check out ALL her work👍🎶
I really liked seeing you get into the song with no agenda and not showing off or being self conscious. You have a nice openness in the way you relate to music. Thanks for the upload it lifted my spirits :)
Well done! Your first listen to Kate and you are already “getting it”. The song, the dance and some of the story behind the song. It’s a complete art package. When you further dive into the lyrics and the book or movie, you will appreciate it even more.
She looks and sounds like a beautiful angel not of this world.....very captivating on every level....She is elfish ,angel like,eterical...just lovely..
The song is about Emily Brontë's classic novel "Wuthering Heights" about orphan Heathcliff adopted by a wealthy family and falls in love with their daughter Cathy. Tysheen I'm enjoying your reactions, discovered you today reacting to Father Ted.
Kate Bush was my favorite female artist in the past when I grew up. I can see that you enjoy unique voices and distinctive personalities. So I would recommend you to take a look at Aurora, who is from Norway and started to write music as a little child. She is very unique and inspired Billy Eilish in starting to write music. You could start with her signature song "Runaway" live at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 2015.
t pedes No. It was the last song written just before the album was recorded in August '77. Making her 18 going on 19. She was already 16 when Dave Gilmour paid for her to record "Man With The Child In His Eyes". Otherwise, "Wuthering Heights" would have been the demo to secure her contract. Which it wasn't.
The reason I think the chorus sounds familiar to people is because it sounds like the Barry Mannilow (sp?) song “Mandy.” You know, “Oh Mandy, you came and you gave without taking.”
I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement. The hook was soldered into the staple: a circumstance observed by me when awake, but forgotten. “I must stop it, nevertheless!” I muttered, knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch; instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, “Let me in-let me in!” “Who are you?” I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. “Catherine Linton,” it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton)-“I’m come home: I’d lost my way on the moor!” As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child’s face looking through the window. Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, “Let me in!” and maintained its tenacious gripe, almost maddening me with fear. “How can I!” I said at length. “Let me go, if you want me to let you in!” The fingers relaxed, I snatched mine through the hole, hurriedly piled the books up in a pyramid against it, and stopped my ears to exclude the lamentable prayer. I seemed to keep them closed above a quarter of an hour; yet, the instant I listened again, there was the doleful cry moaning on! “Begone!” I shouted. “I’ll never let you in, not if you beg for twenty years.” “It is twenty years,” mourned the voice: “twenty years. I’ve been a waif for twenty years!” Thereat began a feeble scratching outside, and the pile of books moved as if thrust forward. I tried to jump up; but could not stir a limb; and so yelled aloud, in a frenzy of fright.
v amzing creative n beautiful kate bush, its losely based on a book wutherine heights, yorkshire uk by bronte. kate wrote v song whn 16, she quickly learned movement/dance 2 make a video 2 promote it n shot by her bro in a field whn 19, vis aint v original video. cheers frm au.
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's foster son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. Wuthering Heights is now considered a classic of English literature, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, and for its challenges to Victorian morality and religious and societal values.[1][2] Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights after Emily's death which was published in 1850.[3] It has inspired an array of adaptations across several media, including English singer-songwriter Kate Bush's song of the same name.
The american female artist Tori Amos by her own words have been inspired by Kate Bush music, somekind of similarities in some parts of their style of music between these two women although Tori Amos is also a very talented female artist with an artistic expression in her music, I love them both.
Or is based off the story of wuthering heights btw if you didn't know. Hence why in the chorus she sings "heathcliff, it's me, it's kathy" all about the book.
Joni (Mitchell) is the Sun, and Kate is the Moon! Two of the greatest singer/songwriters ever! All female artists defer to them. Even male artists love, and defer to them. Joni is (now was, due to illness) a painter (a REAL, recognized painter), and Kate was a dancer. Videos: Wow (Version 1), Running Up That Hill, Army Dreamers. Album Versions: Houdini, Lily, Ne t'enfui pas (these album songs are rarely asked, for and are as good as anything else she did!) One day you must also get to Joni! Others will request her most well known/popular songs, and they are great. So I will list less requested songs that, I feel, are even better than her radio-played songs: Night in the City, All I Want, This Flight Tonight, The Same Situation, Be Cool (all album versions, please!)
You have to read the lyrics of her songs they give it another dimension, they are extraordinary... One of my favourite songs is dream is sheep. I think you got to do a reaction to I am what I am by Shirley Bassey now that lady is on fire. Even in her eightiex
Thanks for uploading! If you have a minute, I recorded a cover of Marvin Gaye. As a fellow music lover, I'd love if you'd take a listen. It's on my page. Hope you enjoy!
You cannot imagine how annoying I found this song growing up. It was in the charts for weeks. It doesn't help that Jane Eyre is just about the only book written by a Bronte that I can stomach
Nothing against the original version, but it pales in comparison to Pat Benatar’s cover. No comparison. Kate Bush is good, but she can’t hit notes like Pat Benatar can. Sorry, folks. This is one time that the cover blows away the original.
