Everything But The Girl

Songwriter: Chrissie Hynde

Producer: Robin Millar

[Verse 1]
Kid, what changed your mood?
You've gone all sad
So I feel sad, too
I think I know
Some things you never outgrow
You think it's wrong
I can tell you do
How can I explain
When you don't want me to?

[Verse 2]
Kid, my only kid
You look so small
You've gone so quiet
I know you know what I'm about
I won't deny it
But you forgive
Though you don't understand
You've turned your head
You've dropped my hand

[Bridge]
All my sorrows
All my blues
All my sorrows
Shut the light
Go away
Full of grace
You cover your face

[Verse 3]
Kid, gracious kid
Your eyes are blue
But you won't cry, I know
Angry tears are too dear
You won't let them flow
Oh
Oh
Oh

[Outro]
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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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