Annie Lennox

Released: October 1, 2007

Songwriter: Annie Lennox

Producer: Glen Ballard

This is the sound of the planes in the night
Coming out of the darkness and into the light
Shining alarmingly, curiously bright
This is the sound of those murderous drums
The marching of footsteps the twisting of thumbs
Over and over again he recalls

We're lost
(Baby Come Again Don't Let Me Fall)
We're lost
(Baby Come Again Despite It All)
We're lost

Tell me the story 'bout when you were young
I want to hear it again
Even the parts where the hero gets stung
I want to savour it, I want to play it again
This is the sound of a baby's first breaths
The dying of footsteps, the touching of flesh
To hold in your memory to keep by your chest

We're lost
We're lost
We're lost

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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