Eurythmics

Released: January 4, 1983

Songwriter: David A. Stewart Annie Lennox

Producer: David A. Stewart

[Verse 1]
You can hear the sound
Of the underground trains
You know it feels like distant thunder
You can hear the sound
Of the underground trains
You know it feels like distant thunder

[Verse 2]
You know there's so many people
Living in this house
And don't even know their names
You know there's so many people
Living in this house
And don't even know their names

[Chorus]
I guess it's just a feeling
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)
I guess it's just a feeling
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)

[Verse 3]
You can hear the sound
Of the underground trains
You know it feels like distant thunder
You can hear the sound
Of the underground trains
You know it feels like distant thunder

[Verse 4]
Walls so thin I can almost
Hear them breathing
And if I listen in
I feel my own heart beating
Walls so thin I can almost
Hear them breathing
And if I listen in
I feel my own heart beating

[Chorus]
In the city!
I guess it's just a feeling
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)
I guess it's just a feeling
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)
I guess it's just a feeling
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)
I guess it's just a feeling
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)
I guess it's just a feeling
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)
I guess it's just a feeling
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)
I guess it's just a feeling
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)

[Outro]
I guess it's just a feeling
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)
I guess it's just a feeling (It's just a feeling, it's just a feeling, yeah, it's just a feeling)
I guess it's just a feeling (In the city!)
(It's just a feeling, it's just a feeling, yeah, it's just a feeling)

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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