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Songwriter: Ben Watt

Producer: Everything But The Girl

[Verse 1]
Lying in bed on a weekday night
Listening to the title fight
From a town the radio said was Atlantic City
The branches brush the windows
The hour is early morning
And Frankie's beating hell out of the champion

[Pre-Chorus]
Frankie is the one, you know
Frankie is the boy
I hope my sister's listening
From her place in Illinois

[Chorus]
And though the world is turning darkly
All the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
All that makes us feel alright

[Post-Chorus]
I feel alright, baby
I feel alright

[Verse 2]
Lying in bed in the afternoon
Listening to Frankie Lymon tunes
While the people make their way home
From the dusty city
The breezes blow the curtains
The hour is early evening
And Frankie's singing songs just like a champion

[Pre-Chorus]
Frankie was the one, you know
Frankie was the boy
My sister shook his hand the night
He played at the Savoy

[Chorus]
And though the world was turning darkly
All the stars were out that night
There were dreams still shining, redefining
All that makes us feel alright

[Bridge]
Na na na na na na (Na na na na na na)
Na na na na na na
I feel alright, baby
I feel alright, yeah

[Pre-Chorus]
Frankie is the one, you know
Frankie is the boy
Frankie bears the weight of
All our sorrow and our joy

[Chorus]
Though the world is turning darkly
All the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
All that makes us feel
Alright, yeah

[Outro]
I feel alright
I feel alright
I feel alright (Mmm)
I feel alright, baby
I feel alright

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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