Everything But The Girl

Songwriter: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn

Producer: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn John Coxon

[Verse 1]
Don't say one thing one day
Then something else the next day
I'm trying to keep up with you
It's hard enough when you speak clearly
But when you're confused
It's like a goods train running through these rooms

[Verse 2]
And I'm reading more into your words than you have put into them
And that's my problem, but you tied these knots
Now you undo them, you undo them
Oh think before you speak my darling

[Chorus]
Cause with your troubled mind
You're like a goods train running through my life
Cause with your troubled mind
You're like a goods train running through my life

[Verse 3]
We all walk through these world alone
We keep ourselves untouched unknown
You look up to the sky above you, read this there
I love you...Oh its written there you know I love you
Love you...love you...love you

[Chorus]
But with your trouble mind
You're like a goods train running through my life
Cause with your troubled mind
You're like a goods train running through my life

[Bridge]
And when you're down your bring me down too
And, babe, that's something I would not do
I know its hard yeah I know its hard
And, babe, that's something I don't disregard
I said, I don't disregard

[Chorus]
With your troubled mind
You're like a goods train running through my life
Cause with your troubled mind
You're like a goods train running through my life

[Outro]
With your troubled mind
You know I love you
Love you...love you...love you
With your troubled mind
You know I love you
Love you...love you...love you
With your troubled mind
You're like a goods train running through my life
With your troubled mind
You know I love you
Love you...love you...love you

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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