Everything But The Girl

Songwriter: Lee Ranaldo Kim Gordon Thurston Moore Steve Shelley

[Verse 1]
Love has come to stay, in all the way
Gonna stay forever and every day
Feels like a wish coming true
Feels like an angel dreaming of you
Feels like heaven, forgiving and forgetting
Feels like we're fading, celebrating
Got your carnal spirit spraying, I'm gonna laugh it up
Got your cotton crown, gonna keep it underground, yeah

[Verse 2]
Gonna take control of the chemistry
Gonna manifest the mystery
Got a magic wheel in your memory
I'm wasted in time and I'll make you unaware
I don't care where
I don't care where
Angels are dreaming of you
Angels are dreaming of you
Angels are dreaming of you, yeah

[Verse 3]
New York City is forever, kitty
I'm wasted in time and you're never ready
Fading, fading, celebrating
I got your cotton crown
I got your cotton crown
I got you
I got you
I got you
I got you

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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