Everything But The Girl

[Verse 1]
This is special, this is new
I'm not fazed by you
And are you new this
Your old hand
I feel above the law
I'm coming into land

[Pre-Chorus]
Can I get pushy
Can I get too mean to you

[Chorus]
Why just be myself
I could be someone else
Someone that you might love more
Why just be myself
I could be someone else
Someone that you might love more

[Verse 2]
I got serious wants, let me petrify
My so-called adult life
Not on the inside
Was shopping in high street chains
Two years of Saturdays
Just renting videos
Painting takeaways

[Pre-Chorus 2]
So If I seem unworried now
It doesn't mean I'm rushing rules

[Chorus]
Why just be myself
I could be someone else
Someone that you might love more
Why just be myself
I could be someone else
Someone that you might love more

[Bridge]
You don't really need to know my plans
You don't really need to know my plans oh
You don't really need to know my plans
You don't really need to know my plans oh

[Outro]
If you've been here before
If you have who will
Someone who you did love more

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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