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Riverbed DryEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn

Producer: Robin Millar

[Verse 1]
Conspired against, you protest in vain
That you'll never feel that way again
Despair and desire are both hard to sustain
You'll never sink this low again
Bitter as children we are now too much of the time
What god would punish such sweet children
For such a sweet crime?

[Verse 2]
Wrong as the world and right as rain
We'll never feel that way again
Riverbed dry, this is my terrain
I'll never feel that way again
But I've tired of the city never blessed
With respite from rain
Or has that changed too?
Is the riverbed dry?

[Bridge]
Is the riverbed dry?
Is the riverbed dry?

[Verse 3]
Conspired against, you protest in vain
That you'll never feel that way again
Despair and desire are both hard to sustain
You'll never sink this low again
But I tried of your city never blessed
With respite from rain
Or has that changed too?
Is the riverbed dry?

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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