Eurythmics

Released: March 22, 1983

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: David A. Stewart

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

(Ooh) Hey, hey
(Ooh) Ah-ha-oh

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

(Ooh) Ha, ha
(Ooh) Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Hold your head up
Keep your head up (Movin' on)
Hold your head up (Movin' on)
Keep your head up (Groovin' on)

Hold your head up (Movin' on)
Keep your head up (Groovin' on)
Hold your head up (Movin' on)
Keep your head up

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

(Ooh) Ha, ha, ha-oh, oh, oh
(Ooh) Oh, oh-oh, ah-ah-ah

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas (oh, oh)
Everybody's looking for something

Sweet dreams are made of this (whoa)
Who am I to disagree? (oh-oh-oh)
I travel the world and the seven seas (oh-oh-oh)
Everybody's looking for something (oh)

Sweet dreams are made of this (ha, ha, ha)
Who am I to disagree? (ha, oh)
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something (eh, eh, eh)

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree? (hey, hey, hey)
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something (oh)

Sweet dreams are made of this (ah-ha)
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

Sweet dreams are

While working as a waitress at a health food restaurant in London, Annie 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.

Over the decade, the duo moved away from their dark new wave sound and S&M imagery, evolving into a more mainstream synthpop band. In that time, they scored twenty-one UK top 40’s (ten of which were also US top 40 hits). In 1990, Eurythmics quietly disbanded and Lennox took a break from music to have her first child.

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