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Apron StringsEverything But The Girl

Released: February 8, 1988

Songwriter: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn

Producer: Ben Watt

[Verse 1]
Apron strings hanging empty
Crazy things my body tells me
I want someone to tie to my lonely apron strings

[Verse 2]
Apron strings waiting for you
Pretty things that I could call you
I want someone to tie to my lonely apron strings

[Bridge]
Your baby looks just like you when you were young
And he looks at me with eyes that shine
And I wish that he were mine
Then I go home to my

[Verse 3]
Apron strings, cold and lonely
For time brings thoughts that only
Will be quiet when someone clings to my apron strings

[Bridge]
And I'll be perfect in my own way
When you cry I will be there
I'll sing to you and comb your hair
All your troubles I will share

[Verse 4]
For apron strings can be used for other things
Than what they're meant for
And you'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings
You'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings

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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