Annie Lennox

Released: March 6, 1995

Songwriter: Jackie Members Robert Poindexter Richard Poindexter

Producer: Stephen Lipson

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Oh oh oh yeah yeah yeah

It's a thin line between love and hate
It's a thin line between love and hate

It's 5 o'clock in the morning
And you just getting in
A knock upon the door
A voice sweet and low says
"Who is it?"
She opens up the door
And she lets you in
And never once does she say
"Where have you been?"

She says "Hold it
Are you hungry?
Did you eat yet?
Let me hang up your coat now."

And all the time she's smiling
Never raises her voice
It's 5 o'clock in the morning
And you don't give it a second thought

It's a thin line between love and hate
It's a thin line between love and hate

The sweetest woman in the world
Can be the meanest woman in the world
If you make her be that way
She might be holdin' something in
That's really gonna hurt you
One of these fine days

There you are in a hospital
Bandaged from foot to head
In a state of shock
That much from being dead
You didn't think your woman
Could do something like that to you
Didn't think she got the nerve
Accidents speak louder than words
Louder than words
Louder than words
Louder than words

C'mon
C'mon baby baby
You don't give a damn about me
C'mon baby baby
You don't really care about me

C'mon baby baby
You dont give a damn about me
C'mon baby baby
You dont really care about me

C'mon baby baby
You dont give a damn about me
C'mon baby baby
You dont really care about me

Hear what I say
Hear what I say

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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