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You Lift Me UpEverything But The Girl

Songwriter: Tracey Thorn

Producer: Everything But The Girl

[Verse 1]
When the light fades on a long bad day
I sometimes weaken
Then I turn to see
You've been waiting for me
I know I'm not beaten

[Chorus]
'Cause you, you lift me up
You lift me up
You lift me up
You do, uh huh
You lift me up
You lift me up
You lift me up, you

[Verse 2]
Coming home sometimes
I catch the headlines
It's raining since Saturday night
And the trains run late
I'm stuck at Notting Hill Gate
But you'll make it alright

[Chorus]
'Cause you, you lift me up
You lift me up
You lift me up
You do
Oh you lift me up (Make it)
You lift me up (Alright)
You lift me up
You do

[Bridge]
Such a little thing
Our love won't make the world alright
But love makes sense of life
And that's enough, at least tonight

[Verse 3]
Hey
Oh
Oh, mmm hmm
So late at night maybe
When you call me baby
The day will just fall away

[Chorus]
And you, you lift me up (Make it)
You lift me up (Alright)
You lift me up
You do
Oh, you lift me up (Make it)
You lift me up (Alright)
You lift me up, you

[Outro]
You lift me (Make it alright)
Lift me baby
You lift me (Make it alright)
You
You lift me
Lift me baby
You lift me (Make it alright)
You lift me (Make it alright)
You lift me
Uh huh, oh

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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