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Another BridgeEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn

Producer: Robin Millar

[Verse 1]
Your words stung me to the heart
I hadn't even noticed how far we had drifted apart
Can I still count you as a friend
Or have I done too much now to ever make amends?
'Cause I once needed just an open mind
Well that's no reason why I now should leave you behind

[Verse 2]
A word from out of the blue
Reminds me how much I once needed you
Oh but that's all in the past now
So much so that I can scarcely remember how
I once needed just a hand to hold
'Cause now the few times we meet
All I sense is love grown cold

[Verse 3]
You can't hold on to everything
And I've forgotten what we talked about a long time since
Can't recall days with regret
Tomorrow remember today
And all the rest forget
'Cause time's gone by and all the things we did
Are now so much water
Under another bridge
Another bridge

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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