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Five FathomsEverything But The Girl

Released: September 14, 1999

Songwriter: Ben Watt

Producer: Ben Watt

[Verse 1]
Walk the city late at night
Does everyone here do the same?
I want to be the things I see
Give every face and place my name

[Pre-Chorus]
I cross the street, take a right
Pick up the pace, pass a fight
Did I grow up just to stay home?
I'm not immune, I love this tune

[Chorus]
I wanna love more
I just wanna love more
I wanna love more
I just wanna love more

I wanna love more
I just wanna love more
I wanna love more
I just wanna love more

[Verse 2]
I drag the city late at night
It's in my mouth, it's in my hair
The people fill the city because the city fills the people, oh yeah

[Pre-Chorus]
I cross the street, avoid the freeze
A city's warmer by a couple degrees
The smell of food, The smell of rain
I'm not immune, I love this tune

[Chorus]
I wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I just wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I just wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)

I wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I just wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I just wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)

[Breakdown]
The only way out is down
The only way up is down

[Bridge]
The days roll by like thunder like a storm that's never breaking
All my time and space compressed in the low pressure of the proceedings
And they beat against the sides of my life, like fists against the sides of my life
And the roads all lead behind me
So I wrap the wheel around me and I go out

[Outro]
There's a river in my head
There's a river in my head
There's a river in my head
I'll take you home and make it easy
There's a river in my head
There's a river in my head
I'll take you home and make it easy
There's a river in my head
Love more, love more
Love more, love more

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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