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Frozen RiverEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Ben Watt

Producer: Everything But The Girl

[Verse 1]
I've never been skating on a frozen river
Joni and Jane make it sound so cool
Sometimes I can get so down it seems
Nothing much is gonna turn me around
They could freeze the brook outside my home
But it's only small, not like the Hudson
Where I'd be clean away, the only one
Down through winter trees, on a smooth run

[Chorus]
On a frozen river
On a frozen river
Oh, on a frozen river
I'd be on a frozen river

[Verse 2]
But look at me now I'm getting to you
And all afternoon you have been so bright
"No use turning good into bad"
At times like this you're always right
And the snowdrops are through, I never knew
And my oldest jokes still have you reeling
I'll put the troubles I find to the back of my mind
'Cause my love has the craziest feeling

[Chorus]
Like a frozen river
It's like a frozen river
Oh yeah, frozen river
Oh, like a frozen river

[Bridge]
Half the world will sleep alone tonight (Half the world)
Oh, friends of mine as well
Half the world are on their own tonight (Half the world)
Friends of mine as well, oh

[Verse 3]
Frozen
River
Frozen
River
There's a river below this bright night sky
So full of stars, it's the best for ages
Where I stand in the lane, having shut off the car
Just hearing your wonder

[Chorus]
Like a frozen river
Oh, like a frozen river
Oh, you're like a frozen river (Frozen river)
Like a frozen river
Like a frozen river
Oh, like a frozen river (River)
Like a frozen river
Like a frozen river

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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