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My Head Is My Only House Unless It RainsEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Captain Beefheart

Producer: Everything But The Girl

[Verse 1]
I'll let a train be my feet if it's too far to walk to you
And if a train don't go there I'll get a jet or a bus
'Cause I'm gonna find you
You're gonna see my shadow soon around you
And my head is my only house unless it rains
I walk the meadow plains
Water deserts are my eyes until I find you
I won't sleep until I find you
I won't eat until I find you

[Verse 2]
And my heart won't beat until I wrap my arms around you
Yeah, my arms are just two things in the way
Until I can wrap them around you
You can make a sad song happy
And a bad world good
I can feel you out there movin'
You're mine, and I know I'll find you
And my head is my only house until I've found you
I hate to hear other people hear me sing this song
If this reaches you before I do
Follow this song of "I love you"
That's where I'll find you

[Chorus]
And my head is my only house unless it rains
Yeah, my head is my only house unless it rains
Yeah, my head is my only house unless it rains
Yeah, my head is my only house
My head is my only house
My head is my only house
My head is my only house
Unless it rains
Unless it rains
Unless it rains
Unless it rains

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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