Annie Lennox

Released: June 5, 2003

Songwriter: Annie Lennox

Producer: Stephen Lipson

The city streets are wet again with rain
But I'm walking just the same
Skies turn to the usual gray
When you turn to face the day

Oh... and love don't show up in the pavement cracks
All my water colors fade to black
I'm going nowhere and I'm ten steps back
All my dreams are fallen flat

Love don't show in the pavement cracks, oh...
There will be no turning back, oh...

Time and space will pass us by and by
When we don't see eye to eye
I... would have done anything
For happiness to bring, oh...

But it don't show up in the pavement cracks
I can't even cover up my tracks
I'm going nowhere and I'm light years back
Ooh I wish you well

How come every day
I'm still waiting for the change?
How come I still say
Give me strength to live...

Love don't show in the pavement cracks, oh...
There will be no turning back, oh...

Where is my comfort zone?
A simple place to call my own
'Cause everything I wanna be
Comes crashing down on me, oh...

And it don't show up in the pavement cracks (it don't show up in the pavement cracks)
I can't even recognize my tracks (I can't even recognize my tracks)
You and I can't turn the whole thing back
Ooh I wish you well

Love don't show in the pavement cracks, oh...
There will be no turning back, oh...

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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