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Big DealEverything But The Girl

Released: May 6, 1996

Songwriter: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn

Producer: Ben Watt

[Intro]
You don't know what's wrong, you only know it isn't right
You don't remember for how long, but you wake in tears at night
Big deal
Big deal

[Verse 1]
You spend four nights a week now looking for your inner child
What you gonna say when you find him?
Suppose you don't like him or he doesn't like you?
Suppose once you wake him up he won't go back to bed and wants to stay up late watching TV?
But you say there must be some reason why you feel this way

[Chorus]
Big deal, that's the way we all feel
Big deal, that's the way I feel
Big deal, that's the way we all feel
Big deal, what is it you wanna feel?

[Bridge]
You say you wanna get cured, you wanna turn off your head
Oh and you say it hurts, and you feel unsure
First you doubt yourself and then you doubt her

[Chorus]
Big deal, that's the way we all feel
Big deal, what is it you wanna feel?
Big deal, that's the way I feel
Big deal, what she think she feels?

[Outro]
What is it you wanna feel?
I don't think you wanna feel

Everything But The Girl

Originating at the turn of the 1980s as a leader of the lite-jazz movement, Everything but the Girl became an unlikely success story more than a decade later, emerging at the vanguard of the fusion between pop and electronica.

Founded in 1982 by Hull University students Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, the duo took their name from a sign placed in the window of a local furniture shop, which claimed “for your bedroom needs, we sell everything but the girl.” At the time of their formation, both vocalist Thorn and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Watt were already signed independently to the Cherry Red label; Thorn was a member of the sublime Marine Girls, while Watt had issued several solo singles and also collaborated with Robert Wyatt.

Everything but the Girl debuted in 1982 with a samba interpretation of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”; the single was a success on the U.K. independent charts, but the duo nonetheless went on hiatus as Thorn recorded a solo EP, A Distant Shore, while Watt checked in with the full-length North Marine Drive in 1983. EBTG soon reunited to record a cover of the Jam’s “English Rose” for an NME sampler; the track so impressed former Jam frontman Paul Weller that he invited the duo to contribute to the 1984 LP Cafe Bleu, the debut from his new project, the Style Council.

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