Annie Lennox

Released: March 6, 1995

Songwriter: Paul Buchanan

Producer: Stephen Lipson

[Verse 1]
Sometimes I walk away
When all I really wanna do
Is love and hold you right
There is just one thing I can say
Nobody loves you this way
It's all right, can't you see?
The downtown lights

[Verse 2]
In love we're all the same
We're walking down an empty street
And with nobody calling on me
Empty street, empty night
The downtown lights

[Chorus]
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know it's true?
It's all right

[Verse 3]
Tonight and every night
Let's go walking down this empty street
Let's walk in the cool evening night
Wrong or right
Be at my side
The downtown lights
It will be all right
It will be all right
The downtown lights

[Chorus]
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it
How do I know it's true?
It's all right
It's all right
The downtown lights

How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it
How do I know it's true?
The downtown lights

[Bridge]
Neons and cigarettes
The rented rows and rented cars
The crowded streets, the empty bars
Chimneytops, the trumpets
The golden lights, the loving prayers
Colored shoes,the empty trains
I'm tired of crying on the stairs
The downtown lights

[Instrumental Chorus]

Annie Lennox is an award-winning singer, songwriter and activist who has sold over 80 million records worldwide between her solo work and the duo Eurythmics. At seventeen, Lennox won a scholarship to London’s Royal Academy of Music to become a flutist, but dropped out after feeling that classical music was “far too competitive” and “didn’t fit my kind of personality”.

While working as a waitress at a health food restaurant in London, Lennox met Dave Stewart, with whom she formed the band Catch with singer-songwriter Peet Coombes. Catch released one single before adding two more members and changing their name to The Tourists. Under that name, the band scored five UK hits before Coombes' substance abuse broke the band apart.

Lennox and Stewart continued writing together – with Stewart moving from guitar to synthesizer and Lennox adopting an androgynous look – and formed Eurythmics. Within a few years, the duo was propelled into international stardom when “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”, a single from their second album, became a top ten hit in nine countries.

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