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Lights of Te TouanEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Stephen Ryan

[Verse 1]
Imagine waking unaware
The light of heaven touched your hair
Morning struggled sun was here and gone
Born into empty air
The signals changed the engines flared
There's a place you know I'm always there

[Verse 2]
Ride on the early trains
Past the wedding in the rain
They closed the open door and the white smoke blew away
And never made a dumb mistake
To eat your orange and your cake
But never say your good luck isn't there

[Bridge]
If I could speak with you
About a hundred things I'd say
Dear friend it's true
All that you say

[Verse 3]
And these days that passed through time
You closed your eyes you could see the lights of Te Touan shine
In the morning you were drinking again
And born into wealth and care
Imagine waking unaware
And there's a place you know I never dare

[Bridge]
If I could speak with you
It's sure a hundred years away
Dear friend it's true
All that you say

[Verse 4]
And never made a dumb mistake
So eat your orange and your cake
And never say your good luck isn't there
Hey, never say your good luck isn't there

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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