Hall & Oates

Released: September 10, 1985

Songwriter: Daryl Hall

Producer: Bob Clearmountain Daryl Hall John Oates

[Spoken Word Intro]
We'd like to do a song that was on our Voices album about five years ago. It was recently done by an English artist. It's called "Everytime You Go Away." We're gonna do it our own way

Babe, if we can't solve any problems
Why do we lose so many tears?
Whoa, so you go again
When the leading man appears
Always the same thing
But can't you see we've got everything
Going on and on and on?

And everytime you go away
You take a piece of me with you
And everytime you go away
You take a piece of me with you, you

Go on and go free
Maybe you're too close to see
I can feel your body move
But doesn't mean that much to me
I can't go on singing the same theme
'Cause you can't see we've got everything
Baby, even though you know

That everytime you go away
You take a piece of me with you
You just don't care
Everytime you go away
You take a piece of me with you, you

'Cause you can't see we've got everything
Baby, even though you know
That everytime you go away
(Everytime you go away)
(Everytime you go away)
Why you have to go away right now?
(Everytime you go away)
(Everytime you go away)
Go on and go away, girl
(Everytime you go away)
I don't understand why you gotta go, girl
(Everytime you go away)
Go on and go free
Even though you mean so much to me
(Everytime you go away)
I don't understand, baby
(Everytime you go away)
Oh baby, baby, everytime you go
(Everytime you go away)
You don't know, you don't know
Beause you never understand, girl
(Everytime you go away)
Why you have to go away right now?
(Everytime you go away)
Everytime you go, girl
(Everytime you go away)
Go on, go on and go free
(Everytime you go away)
Baby, you mean so much to me
I'll never understand why you gotta go, girl
(Everytime you go away)
I don't understand, girl
(Everytime you go away)
I don't know go, I don't know go
I don't know go, I don't know go
I don't know go, I don't know go
(Everytime you go away)
Go girl, go girl, gotta go girl
You won, babe
(Everytime you go away)
Baby, baby, baby
(Everytime you go away)

Hall & Oates released the first of their 18 albums in 1972 on Atlantic Records. They would go on to sell 13 million albums and 6 million singles primarily during the 70’s and 80’s when they recorded their most prolific and profound music. They blended rock, jazz, soul, and pop create a genre they titled rock and soul.

While their technical musicianship, innovative songwriting styles, and popular live performances were praised, they also had a fruitful partnership with their manager Tommy Mottola, who was helped Hall & Oates break into music videos before they were popular and made profitable financial deals by helping them get on the ground level of and corporate sponsorship of tours. Hall & Oates were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

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