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I Always Was Your GirlEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Tracey Thorn Ben Watt

Producer: Ben Watt

[Verse 1]
I know you're down again
And you see nothing but rain
You put your friends through hell
And that's why we get along so well

[Chorus]
You see, I always was your girl
It always will be you and me against the world

[Verse 2]
We know the years can give
Romance to the street where we once lived
You wondered why no one called
Between you and me, we scared them all

[Chorus]
You see, I always was your girl
It always has been you and me against the world

[Sax Solo]

[Verse 3]
Maybe we're wrong and the world is right
But don't tell me that tonight
Self-assured and abusing guests
That's the way I like you best

[Chorus]
You see, I always was your girl
It always will be you and me against the world
You see, I always was your girl
It always will be you and me against the world

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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