"It's me, It's Kathy...I've come home again."
I'm surprised that Kate Bush's song "Wuthering Heights" didn't awaken the ghost of, Heathcliff, said Princess Haiku. I was chatting with him yesterday on the Moor. There I was, walking with my friend, Chedwick, the cat and then voila, there he was. .. As broody as ever. I really don't understand Kathy's thing for him, do you? But then-how do you explain chemistry, asked Princess Haiku vanishing in a haze of San Francisco fog.
Wuthering Height's was Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres. (As an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather.) The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys both themselves and many around them.
Kate Bush
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
Oh 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
Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Cathy
Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights"
(her first hit in 1978)
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