Eurythmics

Released: November 9, 1987

Songwriter: David A. Stewart Annie Lennox

Producer: David A. Stewart

[Chorus]
You have placed a chill in my heart
You have placed a chill in my heart

[Verse 1]
Take me to the desert where there's got to be
A whole heap of nothing for you and me
Take me to the desert, take me to the sand
Show me the color of your right hand

[Chorus]
You have placed a chill in my heart
You have placed a chill in my heart

[Verse 2]
Love is a temple, love is a shrine
Buy some love at the five and dime
A little bit of love from the counter store
Get it on credit if you need some more
I'll be the figure of your disgrace
A criss-cross pattern upon your face
A woman's just too tired to think
About the dirty old dishes in the kitchen sink

[Verse 3]
I wish I was invisible, so I could climb through the telephone
When it hurts my ear, and it hurts my brain
And it makes me feel too much
Too much, too much, too much
Don't cut me down when I'm talking to you
'Cause I'm much too tall to feel that small

[Verse 4]
Love is a temple, love is a shrine
Love is pure, and love is blind
Love is a religious sign
I'm gonna leave this love behind
Love is hot, and love is cold
I've been bought, and I've been sold
Love is rock, and love is roll
I just want someone to hold

[Bridge]
Hold me now!
Hold me now, baby!
Come on!
Yeah!

[Chorus]
You have placed a chill in my heart
(Make me feel, come on, now!)
You have placed a chill in my heart
(Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
You have placed a chill in my heart
(Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Whoo!)
You have placed a chill in my heart
(Gimme two times, gimme two times)
(Gimme two times, gimme two times)
(Gimme two times, yeah!)

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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