Annie Lennox

Released: October 1, 2007

Songwriter: Annie Lennox

Producer: Glen Ballard

I was floating in the cool of your river
I was drifting in a tide of pure water
Oh wash me in the flood of creation
Don’t take me down
Don’t take me down with you

My innocence has all but been taken
Oh given to the cruelty of strangers
Who took me out from safety to danger
Don’t take me down
Don’t take me down with you

Don’t take me down my friend
I wanna live my time again Yea
Got so used to loser’s luck
But I don’t wanna give it up

I’m comin’ up to take my breath again
Oh love is like a pool of forgiveness
I wish that I could fly with the angels
Don’t take me down
Don’t take me down with you

I’ve been caught by the spell of temptation
I’ve been burned by the hell of damnation
And I don’t need to be taken there again
All I want’s for this wounded heart to mend

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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