Everything But The Girl

Songwriter: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn

[Verse 1]
Baby come home, I miss the sound of the door
Your step on the stair's not there to wake me no more
And every day's like Christmas Day without you
It's cold and there's nothing to do

[Verse 2]
And it's mighty quiet here now that you're gone
And I've been behaving myself for too long
'Cause I don't like sleeping or painting the town on my own
So please

[Chorus]
Come on home
Come on home, yeah
Come on home
Baby come home

[Verse 3]
Baby, what's keeping you all this time?
You're wasting your days out there in the sunshine
And who can I turn to if you believe still
That England don't love you and she never will?

[Verse 4]
For it's mighty quiet here now that you're gone
And I've been behaving myself for too long
'Cause I don't like sleeping or watching TV on my own
So please

[Chorus]
Come on home
Come on home, yeah
Come on home
Baby come home, please

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]
Come on home
Come on home, yeah
Come on home
Baby come home, please
Come on home
Come on home, yeah yeah
Come on home
Baby come home
Come on home
Come on home
Come on home
Baby come home
Come on home
Come on, yeah yeah
Come on home
Come on home

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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