Everything But The Girl

Songwriter: Tracey Thorn

Producer: Everything But The Girl

[Verse 1]
A summer evening, I walk past the windows
The baby crying and someone's cooking dinner
There's laughter on the TV
And someone's learning the violin
And how that home appeals
At times like this I feel

[Chorus]
That I would like to live like anybody else
In one place
I could be happy and fulfilled
In one place

[Verse 2]
So I get the map out (Get the map out)
And draw a line of where we've been
(Goes through sea and sky)
And it goеs through sea and sky
Twenty-five planеs this year
And it's only July
This is not some bible like "On The Road"
Oh no, it's just a song about coming home
And whether

[Chorus]
I could like to live like anybody else
In one place
And I could be happy and fulfilled
In one place

[Bridge]
And you know that I have found
I'm happiest weaving from town to town
And you know Bruce said we should keep moving 'round
Maybe we all get too tied down, I don't know
Yeah, I don't know
Happy to be home (Still I'm)
Happy to be home (Alright)

[Verse 3]
In the end, if you take care
You can be happy or unhappy anywhere

[Chorus]
And I think we maybe all rely too much, baby
On one place
Oh I know I never would deny the need
For one place
And I think we maybe all rely too much, baby
On one place
Oh I know I never would deny the need
For one place

[Outro]
For one place (For one place, baby)
One place (One place, baby)
Oh yeah
It goes through sea and sky
(It goes through sea and sky)
One place
One place
(Goes through sea and sky)
I'm happy to be home
(Still I'm happy to be home)
Happy to be home
(Oh still I'm happy to be home)
Goes through sea and sky
(Sea and sky, it goes through sea and sky)
So come on, get the map out
(Get the map out)
Won't you baby, get the map out?
Oh (Get the map out)
Get the map out
(Twenty-five planes this year)
Get the map out
(I've been on twenty-five planes this year)
Come on, get the map out
Alright, get the map out
Oh yeah, come on, get the map out
I said, get the map out

Originating at the turn of the 1980s as a leader of the lite-jazz movement, Everything but the Girl became an unlikely success story more than a decade later, emerging at the vanguard of the fusion between pop and electronica.

Founded in 1982 by Hull University students Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, the duo took their name from a sign placed in the window of a local furniture shop, which claimed “for your bedroom needs, we sell everything but the girl.” At the time of their formation, both vocalist Thorn and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Watt were already signed independently to the Cherry Red label; Thorn was a member of the sublime Marine Girls, while Watt had issued several solo singles and also collaborated with Robert Wyatt.

Everything but the Girl debuted in 1982 with a samba interpretation of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”; the single was a success on the U.K. independent charts, but the duo nonetheless went on hiatus as Thorn recorded a solo EP, A Distant Shore, while Watt checked in with the full-length North Marine Drive in 1983. EBTG soon reunited to record a cover of the Jam’s “English Rose” for an NME sampler; the track so impressed former Jam frontman Paul Weller that he invited the duo to contribute to the 1984 LP Cafe Bleu, the debut from his new project, the Style Council.

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