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Living on HoneycombEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Tracey Thorn

Producer: Ben Watt

[Verse 1]
Outside the fair still rages
Young men the wrath of ages in their heads
Fight for the comfort of their beds
And inside here we lie alone
Living on honeycomb
You've guessed, truly we are blessed

[Chorus]
My love is like the raging seas
The wind that knocks the birds out of the trees
I'm at home, living on honeycomb

[Verse 2]
Where would I be without you?
Giving my love just the same
To a man who couldn't even spell my name
Or hoping for a wintry smile
From every hard-faced passerby
Or the man who runs the crooked coconut shy

[Chorus]
My love is like the raging seas
The wind that knocks the birds out of the trees
I'm at home, living on honeycomb

[Bridge]
You always were the best my friend
On the ruthless rifle range
And I'm glad to see you haven't changed
But the big wheel frightened me you see
Made me dizzy now my head is spinning
Take me back home to my bed

[Chorus]
My love is like the raging seas
The wind that knocks the birds out of the trees
I'm at home, living on honeycomb

[Outro]
Living on honeycomb
Living on honeycomb
Living on honeycomb
I'm at home
Living on honeycomb
Living on honeycomb
Living on honeycomb

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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