Annie Lennox

Released: October 1, 2007

Songwriter: Annie Lennox

Producer: Glen Ballard

[Verse 1]
Oh come and take this pain away
Oh come and take this pain away
Oh come and set my spirit free

[Chorus]
I've seen too much
I know too much
I hurt too much
I feel too much
I dread too much
I dream too much
I'm caught up by the ghosts in my machine

[Verse 2]
I'm bruised and battered by the storm
Can't find a place to keep me warm
My mind is broken and forlorn

[Chorus]
I think too much
I do too much
I fall too much
I fail too much
I cry too much
I die too much
I'm haunted by the ghosts in my machine

[Bridgee]
Give me some of that medicine
To make me forget
(I can't find it)
I need something easier
(can't find it)
Cause I ain't found it yet
I ain't found it yet
I ain't found it
Oh no no no

[Verse 3]
Oh womankind was born of pain
My soul keeps hurting just the same
Oh come and take this pain away

[Chorus]
I give too much
Get used too much
I lose too much
Get bruised too much
I bleed too much
I need too much
I'm sleeping with the ghosts in my machine

[Outro]
I said I love you baby
Guess I always do
I said I love to baby
Guess I always do
I said I love you baby
Guess I always do

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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