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Get MeEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Ben Watt

Producer: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn John Coxon

[Verse 1]
I never thought I'd grow up so fast, so far
To know yourself is to let yourself be loved
And I wanna be addicted
I wanna be secure
I wanna wake up after the night before

[Refrain]
But do you get me?
Do you ever get me? (Yeah)
Do you ever get me? (Yeah)

[Verse 2]
And I'll press your hand against my face
Weaken my resistance
And I'll pull the sheets over our heads
Let the broken sky break above our heads
And I wanna be addictive
I wanna be secure
I wanna wake up after the night before

[Refrain]
But do you get me?
Do you ever get me? (Yeah)
Do you ever get me? (Yeah)

[Verse 3]
Shower me with affection and I'll return in kind
I have no hidden motive, I am blind
I'm a stone inside a box
I'm a spring inside a clock
You can wear me on your wrist
And I'll tell you things ten thousand times

[Refrain]
But do you ever get me? (Yeah)
Do you ever get me? (Yeah)
Do you ever get me? (Yeah)
Do you ever get me? (Yeah)
Do you ever get me? (Oh yeah)
Do you ever get me? (Mmm hmm)
Do you ever get me?

Everything But The Girl

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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