Eurythmics

Released: September 11, 1989

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: David A. Stewart Jimmy Iovine

[Verse 1]
It's five o'clock
In the afternoon
Somebody's playing
A sixties tune on the radio
A lazy wind tumbles
Down the street
It shakes the dust up
With the summer heat
Where the people go...

[Pre-Chorus]
In fancy town
Where nothing's real
They don't consider
What you feel
In fancy town
It's black and white
They close their minds
They say
Wrong is right

[Chorus]
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
Hold on!

[Verse 2]
In fancy town
The attitude
Could strip you bare
Like frozen food
A ship of fools
In a crazy choir
Is gonna take you home
And light your fire

[Pre-Chorus]
In fancy town
Where nothing's real
They don't consider
What you feel
In fancy town
It's black and white
They close their minds
They say
Wrong is right

[Chorus]
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
Hold on!

[Verse 3]
A deck of cards
In perfect black
Like cold cement
On the pavement cracks
Where lovers steal
And beg for time
And doctors sign
On the dotted line...

[Chorus]
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
Hold on!
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
How long
Will your love?
Hold on!
To stay strong enough
Hold on!

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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