Eurythmics

Released: November 9, 1987

Songwriter: David A. Stewart Annie Lennox

Producer: David A. Stewart

[Verse 1]
I need you to pin me down
Just for one frozen moment
I need someone to pin me down
So I can live in torment
I need you to really feel
The twist of my back breaking
I need someone to listen
To the ecstasy I'm faking

[Chorus]
I need you, you, you
I need you, you, you

[Verse 2]
I need you to catch each breath
That issues from my lips
I need someone to crack my skull
I need someone to kiss
So hold me now
And make pretend
That I won't ever fall
Oh, hold me down
I'm gonna be your, baby, doll
Yeah, yeah!

[Chorus]
I need you, I need you, I need you
You, you
I need you, you, you

[Verse 3]
I need you to pin me down
Just for one frozen moment
I need someone to pin me down
So I can live in torment
I need you to really feel
The twist of my back breaking
I need someone to listen
To the ecstasy I'm faking, faking
I'm faking, I'm faking

[Chorus]
You, you, you
I need you

[Outro]
I need you, you, you
Is it you I really need?
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
I really do
I need you

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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