Annie Lennox

Released: June 5, 2003

Songwriter: Annie Lennox

Producer: Stephen Lipson

Loneliness
Is a place that I know well
It's the distance between us
And the space inside ourselves

Emptiness
Is the chattering in your head
It's the call of the living
And the race from life to death
And I know
Yeah, I know, what you feel

And I've got a longing that's hard to find
Won't give me no peace of mind
Something that I've lived with all along
Days and weeks and months and years
Filling in the time, my dear
Tryin' to find the place where I belong

Hopelessness
Is the darkness of your heart
It's the sound of one hand clapping
While it's pulling you apart
And I know
Yeah, I know
What you feel

And I've got a longing that's hard to find
Won't give me no peace of mind
Something that I've lived with all along
Days and weeks and months and years
Filling in the time, my dear
Trying to find the place where I belong

And I've got a hunger that's hard to fill
Drivin' me on overkill
Tellin' me that everything's gone wrong
Got me a need that I can't break
More than I can hardly take
Somehow I keep on going strong

When I call your name, I'm gonna scream out loud
I'll say "Here I am standing in the crowd."
You'll say, "Come to me, with your open mind
You never know, what you still might find."
But you keep me here like a cancelled flight
An empty train, runnin' through the night
An ophan child, a broken shoe
And I'm still down here
Lookin' out for you

Are you there for me?
'Cause I'm here for you

Annie Lennox is an award-winning singer, songwriter and activist who has sold over 80 million records worldwide between her solo work and the duo Eurythmics. At seventeen, Lennox won a scholarship to London’s Royal Academy of Music to become a flutist, but dropped out after feeling that classical music was “far too competitive” and “didn’t fit my kind of personality”.

While working as a waitress at a health food restaurant in London, Lennox met Dave Stewart, with whom she formed the band Catch with singer-songwriter Peet Coombes. Catch released one single before adding two more members and changing their name to The Tourists. Under that name, the band scored five UK hits before Coombes' substance abuse broke the band apart.

Lennox and Stewart continued writing together – with Stewart moving from guitar to synthesizer and Lennox adopting an androgynous look – and formed Eurythmics. Within a few years, the duo was propelled into international stardom when “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”, a single from their second album, became a top ten hit in nine countries.

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