Annie Lennox

Released: June 5, 2003

Songwriter: Annie Lennox

Producer: Stephen Lipson

I didn't want to know you
I didn't mean to be your friend
But now it seems
I'd run through burnin' fire
Just to see your face again

I didn't want to hurt you
Or be hurt by you
At the closing of the game
But now it seems too late for that desire
I watched it all go up in flames
I watched it all go up in flames

Tell me
Darlin'
What would it take
To untie the twist in us?
'Cause it's makin' my heart ache

Under a cloak of darkness
Under the covers where we laid
There I spent my dreams with you
Now I've hid them all away
I guess I've hid them all away

Nothin'
And no one
Touches me like you
But how could I believe in this
When none of it was true?
Yeah

(I knew from the first time
That I set my eyes on you.)

I didn't mean to make you suffer
I didn't mean to make you cry
You didn't mean to make me suffer
You didn't mean to make me cry

Oh my darlin'
Oh my lover
All the words come back to me
I remember
I remember
Everything you said to me
We went walking
Out in silence
Underneath the cherry tree-
Falling blossom
Falling blossom
Falling from the cherry tree
I remember
I remember
Everything you did to me

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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