Chains of Love

I love the concept of the Wuthering Heights soundtrack; pairing the hyperpop energy of Charli xcx with a romantic period piece is an inspired choice. It’s a fascinating departure for Charli xcx, whose typical sound is up-tempo and experimental, rather than the atmospheric ballads required for Wuthering Heights.

The music translates beautifully into an elegant fingerstyle arrangement—it’s quickly become one of my favorite pieces to play.

A little side-note on the book itself: Wuthering Heights was considered the “shocker of 1847.” It became a cornerstone of the Gothic genre, celebrated for its poetic intensity and its bold rejection of traditional Victorian morality. The character Heathcliff—played by Jacob Elordi in the 2026 film—remains one of literature’s most enduring anti-heroes: a vengeful, often cruel protagonist who challenges our ideas of a “romantic lead.”

Emily Brontë published the novel under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Tragically, it was her only novel; she died just a year later at the age of 30, never knowing her work would be cemented as one of the greatest achievements in the English language. At the time, critics were deeply unsettled—the fact that a “clergyman’s daughter” could conceive of such dark, violent scenarios was a massive scandal to the Victorian patriarchy.

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How to play Chains of Love | fingerstyle guitar

The guitar tab for this piece is beautifully written across 2 pages and very easy to play. I recommend this arrangement for beginner guitar players and up. Enjoy! the guitar tab is available below:

My song structure looks like this, in accordance with the guitar tab:

Verse 1, Chorus

Verse 2 Chorus

End

[guitar tab] **Wuthering Heights: Chains of Love (Charli xcx) | fingerstyle guitar

This song is played 1 whole step down. Your tuning looks like this from low to high: D G C F A D.

(You can also just as easily play this in standard tuning, if you don’t feel like tuning down.)