Eurythmics

Released: September 11, 1989

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: David A. Stewart Jimmy Iovine

[Verse 1: Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart]
Do you feel sorry, lover?
Do you feel blue?
What reason did you have
To be untrue?
Now you could be so good
But you have to be so bad
When you could make me happy, lover
You make me sad

[Verse 2: Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart]
Now there's a cool breeze blowin'
Blowin' out the flame
That used to burn inside me
At the mention of your name
Now there's a cool breeze blowin'
Blowin' down the track
That's where I'm goin'
And I'm never comin' back

[Chorus: Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart]
My, my – baby's gonna cry
My, my – baby's gonna cry
My, my – baby's gonna cry
Tonight, oh, yeah!
Tonight, oh, yeah!

[Verse 3: Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart]
Now there's nothing
Comes from nothing
That's what they always say
Didn't mama tell ya
That's the price you have to pay?
Now you can't have
Your piece of cake
And eat the sweet thing too
But that kind of understanding
Isn't good enough for you

[Chorus: Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart]
My, my – baby's gonna cry
My, my – baby's gonna cry
My, my – baby's gonna cry
Tonight, oh, yeah!
Tonight, oh, yeah!
Tonight, oh, yeah!
Tonight, oh, yeah!

[Outro: Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart & both]
My, my – baby's gonna cry
My, my – baby's gonna cry
My, my – baby's gonna cry
My, my – baby's gonna cry
My, my – baby's gonna cry
My, my – baby's gonna cry
Tonight, oh, yeah!
Tonight, oh, yeah!
Oh, yeah, baby!
Tonight, oh, yeah!
Why you crying?
Tonight, oh, yeah!
Why you crying?
I see those tears come falling
I see those tears come falling
Yeah! Yeah! 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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