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Politics AsideEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Ben Watt

Producer: Everything But The Girl

[Intro]
Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo

[Verse 1]
You always loved the sad songs
Like you loved it when I lost
So I don't tell you when I'm happy
'Cause it only makes you cross
And I thought as I was leaving
And it strikes me every time
Politics aside we always
I thought we always got on fine

[Chorus]
Crystal clear were my intentions
But you didn't want to know
When there's no point in staying
You just go
(Don't let it worry you)
(Don't let it worry you)

[Verse 2]
And I'll be driving through provincial towns
And places sweetly named
And I'll be looking for a centre
For a sense of live contained
And then I'm out the other side
And through suburban avenues
I realise it never was there
And that's how I feel about you

[Chorus]
Crystal clear were my intentions
But you didn't want to know
When there's no point in staying
You just go
When there's no point in staying
You just go

[Outro]
Oh (Don't let it worry you)
'Cause I won't (Doo doo doo doo doo)
No, I won't (Don't let it worry you)
I won't (Doo doo doo doo doo)
No, no I won't (Don't let it worry you)
'Cause I won't (Doo doo doo doo doo)
No I won't (Don't let it worry you)
'Cause I won't (Doo doo doo doo doo)
No I won't (Don't let it worry you)
Oh (Doo doo doo doo doo)
Mmm hmm
Oh yeah
Mmm hmm
Oh
Yeah
Mmm hmm
Mmm hmm

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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