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BlameEverything But The Girl

Released: September 27, 1999

Songwriter: Tracey Thorn Ben Watt

Producer: Ben Watt

[Verse 1]
I know I wasn't good
Maybe I was even bad
But I was way too young
To know just what I had
And if I let you down
Now I let you go
But I was so young
And now it's all gone

[Chorus]
I'm the one to blame
I'm the one to blame

[Verse 2]
You must never think
I wish that you had stayed
Look at where we are
I'm glad you got away
But who's your daddy now
And where's your home
You're living somewhere new
D'you think he'd take me too

[Chorus]
I'm the one to blame
I'm the one to blame
I'm the one to blame
I'm the one to blame
(Blame)
(Blame)

[Bridge]
Now you forgot the words
Please don't forget your name
And who gave that to you
Well that was me again
Who let you down and loved you
That was me again
And who's the one to blame
That was me again

[Chorus]
I'm the one to blame
Who let you down and loved you
I'm the one to blame
(Blame)
(Blame)
I'm the one to blame
(Blame)

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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