Everything But The Girl

Songwriter: Ben Watt

Producer: Tommy LiPuma

[Intro]
Won't you get back
Won't you try to get back
Get back together?
Won't you get back
Won't you try to get back
Get back together?

[Verse 1]
Still can't believe that you two are now just friends
You've got no lover and he's free at weekends
I know he said when you first met
That you must always play the hand you get

[Pre-Chorus]
But you're two years on a losing streak
Get back together
Get back together
It's something you could do next week
Get back together
Get back together

[Chorus]
Ooh, won't you get back (Won't you?)
Try to get back together?
Ooh, won't you get back (Won't you?)
Try to get back together?

[Verse 2]
Matches are not made in heaven
They're made right here on earth
He searched the starry skies
Ended up in your arms
You taught him all he knows
Just think what you could have been
Another Arthur and Marilyn

[Pre-Chorus]
Now you're two years on a losing streak
Get back together
Get back together
It's something you could do next week
Get back together
Get back together

[Chorus]
Ooh, won't you get back (Won't you?)
Try to get back together?
Ooh, won't you get back
Try to get back together?

[Bridge]
And then you say that you got bored
How can you say that you got bored?
Some people search their whole lives through
And never find what was shown to you
Won't you get back
Won't you try to get back
Get back together?

[Verse 3]
Still can't believe that you two are just friends
You've got no lover and he's at loose ends
Hey girl, listen to what I say
Don't let that boy just walk away

[Chorus]
Ooh, won't you get back (Won't you?)
Try to get back together?
Ooh, won't you get back
Try to get back together?
Ooh, won't you get back (Won't you?)
Try to get back together?
Ooh, won't you get back (Won't you?)
Try to get back together?

[Outro]
Baby get back
Baby baby get back
(Get back together, get back together)
Baby get back
Baby baby get back
(Get back together, get back together)
Get back together
Baby get back
(You searched the starry skies and ended up in her arms)
Baby baby get back
(You searched the starry skies)
Get back together
Baby get back
Baby baby get back
(Get back together, get back together, get back together)
Get back together

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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