Eurythmics

Released: September 11, 1989

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: David A. Stewart Jimmy Iovine

[Verse 1]
Sylvia is missing –
Dark stars tatooed
Across her face...
Tiny bruises
Black and blue
The dedication on her arm
Reads "LOVE & HATE"
Yeah! Yeah!

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Passing through the underground
Sylvia is coming down
The Queen has lost her crown
Today...

[Chorus]
She wants to fall
Into a deep, deep sleep
So she can forget herself
She wants to fall
Into a deep, deep sleep
So she can forget herself

[Verse 3]
Run away to London
Lipstick tainted
Powered painted
Perfume in her hair
Run away to London
A thousand cold caresses
Couldn't keep her there
Yeah! Yeah!

[Pre-Chorus 2]
The fingerprints
Of strangers
On the ugly bedroom floor
Reveal the only traces of what Sylvia is for

[Chorus]
She wants to fall into a deep, deep sleep
So she can forget herself
She wants to fall ino a deep, deep sleep
So she can forget her self

[Post-Chorus]
Passing through the underground
Sylvia is coming down
The Queen has lost her crown
Today...

[Outro]
She wants to fall into a deep, deep sleep
So she can forget herself
She wants to fall into a deep, deep sleep
So she can forget herself
She wants to fall into a deep, deep sleep
So she can forget heself
She wants to fall into a deep, deep sleep
So she can forget herself
She wants to fall into a deep, deep sleep
So she can forget herself
She wants to fall into a deep, deep sleep
So she can forget herself
She wants to fall into a deep deep sleep
So she can forget herself...

While working as a waitress at a health food restaurant in London, Annie 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.

Over the decade, the duo moved away from their dark new wave sound and S&M imagery, evolving into a more mainstream synthpop band. In that time, they scored twenty-one UK top 40’s (ten of which were also US top 40 hits). In 1990, Eurythmics quietly disbanded and Lennox took a break from music to have her first child.

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