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A Piece of My MindEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Tracey Thorn

Producer: Everything But The Girl

[Verse 1]
Why does he still go on like she's a baby
Saying that's no kind of language for a lady?
He knows she hates that word, that's why he said it
He can be childish too and she won't forget it

[Pre-Chorus]
"Don't tell me I don't understand" he said
"'I know I don't understand
I understood when you were ten
But nothing's added up since then"

[Chorus]
He said, "I'll give you a piece of my mind
And you're not too old to take it
Oh, just a piece of my mind" (Oh)

[Verse 2]
That's him and her mum on honeymoon
She was born in January and that was in June
But now her life and his, they just don't mix
And he don't like her boyfriends or her politics

[Pre-Chorus]
"Don't tell me what you think of me" he said
"I know what you think of me
I understood when you were ten
But nothing's added up since then"

[Chorus]
He said, "I'll give you a piece of my mind
And you're not too old to take it
Just a piece of my mind" (Oh)

[Bridge]
Still he remembers her head
On the pillow of her little bed
And then all at once she's sixteen
And now she hates him, she hates him
Oh, yeah yeah yeah, oh

[Pre-Chorus]
"Don't tell me you don't understand" she said
"What is there to understand?
I've grown up since I was a kid
And maybe Dad it's time that you did"

[Chorus]
She said, 'I'll give you a piece of my mind
And you're not too old to take it
Oh, just a piece of my mind
And not too old
'Cause I'm not your baby (Not your baby)
I'm not your little girl (Not your little girl)
I'm not your baby
I'm not your little girl"

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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