Eurythmics

Released: June 18, 1982

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: Adam Williams David A. Stewart

[Verse 1]
I could be contended
I don't need to suffer
You're beautiful
Good to talk to
You make an impression
To take my attention
And when you touch my skin
I smell disaster

[Chorus]
Step away – walk away
All I want is the real thing
Step away – walk away
(Nothing but the real thing)
Step away – walk away
All I want is the real thing
Step away – walk away
(It should be me and you)

[Post-Chorus: Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart]
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes

[Verse 2]
Walking on pavements
We collect in bars
Asleep in the houses
So alone...
Looking inside herself
She breaks the glass
Turns her head backwards
She's fallen down again

[Chorus]
Step away – walk away
All I want is the real thing
Step away – walk away
(Nothing but the real thing, it should be me and you)
Step away – walk away
All I want is the real thing
Step away – walk away
(Nothing but the real thing, it should be me and you)

[Post-Chorus]
Let's just close our eyes
Let's just close our eyes
Let's just close our eyes
Let's just close our eyes
Let's just close our eyes
Let's just close our eyes
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes
I just forget myself
Let's just close our eyes

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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