Eurythmics

Released: November 9, 1987

Songwriter: David A. Stewart Annie Lennox

Producer: David A. Stewart

[Intro]
Shame!

[Verse 1]
Now there's a lifestyle
With painted lips
Now there's a lifestyle
Everybody wants it
But it don't exist
And I said shame...

[Chorus 1]
In the dancehalls and the cinema
Shame!
On the TV and the media
Shame!
We loved you
Shame!
In the dancehalls and the cinema
Shame!
On the TV and the media
Shame!
We loved you

[Verse 2]
Now there's a lifestyle
With fashion chic
Now there's a lifestyle
Everybody in it wants
To be elite
And I said
"You with yer brand new shoes and
You with yer greasy hair and
You with yer mother's pride and poetry"
"Don't you want to feel the shame?"

[Chorus 1]
In the dancehalls
Can't you feel the shame?
And the TV
Can't you feel no shame?
We loved you
Shame!
In the dancehalls and the cinema
Shame!
On the TV and the media
Shame!
We loved you

[Chorus 2]
Shame!
At the Lido and the opera
Shame!
At the races and the theatre
Shame!
We loved you
And they said all we need is love
Shame!
In the dancehalls
All we need is love
And the TV
All we need is love
We loved you
With the Beatles and the Rolling Stones
Shame!
At the Lido and the opera
Shame!
At the races
And the theatre
Shame!
We loved you

[Outro]
Day after day (In the dancehalls)
Day after day(In the dancehalls)
Day after day(In the dancehalls)

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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