Eurythmics

Released: November 9, 1987

Songwriter: David A. Stewart Annie Lennox

Producer: David A. Stewart

[Verse 1]
She was a wide eyed girl
In a purple dress
She could have been good
She could have been the best
Shy little girl
When it came to the test
Wow, oh!
She was a cut above the rest
She was a wide eyed girl
With teased up hair
She could have had money
But she didn't care
She was looking for you daddy
Never there
Looking for you daddy, oh, yeah, yeah

[Chorus]
Wide eyed girl
Wide eyed girl
Wide eyed girl
Wide eyed girl

[Verse 2]
She was a wide eyed girl
Of a tender age
Just moving out of her sensitive phase
She said
"I love you, baby, it's for always
And I don't care what the teacher says"

[Verse 3]
When she walked out
Through the streets of Rome
All of the Italians wanna take her home
All the brown little babies
With the slicked back hair
Sayin' "Prima amore! Wow!"

[Bridge]
"I'm sayin' something
Are ya listening to me?"
"Don't you walk away when I'm
Communicating with you!"
Wide eyed...
"She's goin' clickin' clackin'
Down the road in them high heeled shoes"!
Wide eyed...
Wow! Wow! Wow!
Wide eyed girl
"Mona Lisa!"

[Chorus]
Wide eyed girl
Wide eyed girl
Wide eyed girl
Wide eyed girl
Wide eyed girl

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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