Eurythmics

Released: November 9, 1987

Songwriter: David A. Stewart Annie Lennox

Producer: David A. Stewart

[Chorus]
Put the blame on me
Put the blame on me

[Verse 1]
Take me to a dark room
And hug me to bits
I just wanna be kissed so badly
Right there, on my lips...

[Chorus]
Put the blame on me
Put the blame on me

[Verse 2]
Why did you close your eyes
When I'm the one that's blind?
Why did you close your eyes?
That was too unkind...

[Verse 3]
Where are you tonight?
Are you sleeping on your own?
I need to know
Where you are tonight?
Are you sleeping on your very own?
Tell the one that's lying with you
To get right up and go back home
To get right up and go back home
To get right up and go back home
To get right up and go back home
To get right up and go back home
To get right up and go back home
To get right up and go back home
To get right up and go back home
To get right up and go back home
To get right up and go back home

[Chorus]
Put the blame on me (To get right up and go back home)
Put the blame on me (To get right up and go back home)
Put the blame on me (To get right up and go back home)
Put the blame on me (To get right up and go back home)
Put the blame on me (To get right up and go back home)
Put the blame on me (To get right up and go back home)

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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