Annie Lennox

Released: March 6, 1995

Songwriter: Mabon “Teenie” Hodges Al Green

Producer: Stephen Lipson

I don't know why I love you like I do
(with) all the changes you put me through
Take my money, my cigarettes
I haven't seen the worst of it yet

I wanna know
Can you tell me
I'd really love to stay

Take me to the river
Drop me in the water
Take me to the river
Dip me in the water

(Washing me down, washing me down, washing me down, washing me down)

I don't know why you treat me so bad
Think of all the things that we could have had
Love is a notion, and I can't forget (aahhh)
My sweet sixteen, I'll never regret

I wanna know
Can you tell me
I'd really love to stay

Take me to the river
Drop me in the water
Take me to the river
Dip me in the water

Love me
Squeeze me
Love me
Tease me
Till I can't
Till I can't
Till I can't
Till I can't ...

I don't know why I love you like I do
All the trouble you put me through
Sixteen candles blowing on the wall
And here I am, the biggest fool of all

I wanna know
Can you tell me
I'd really love to stay

Take me to the river
Drop me in the water, (come on, come on, come on)
Dip me in the water, (oh yeah, you got to take me)
Drop me in the river, (in the river, come on)
Dip me in the water, (now take me in the water, yeah)
Drop me in the river, (you got to drop me in the river, come on, come on)
Push me in the water, (push me in the water now, come on)
Drop me in the river

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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