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Low Tide of the NightEverything But The Girl

Released: September 27, 1999

Songwriter: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn

Producer: Ben Watt

[Verse 1]
London in the low tide of the night
And not a taxi cab in sight
Anesthetized I start the journey home
I've been living months alone
I've been avoiding things
The phone rings
I use the answerphone

[Pre-Chorus]
Inside-out in the daytime
Outside-in in the night time
Inside-out in the daytime
Wrong at the right time

[Chorus]
When you're down and troubled
You don't tell your friends
You don't tell your family
I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down

[Verse 2]
Soho in the high tide of the day
And for a while I'm swept away
I just forget it
I use my Walkman when I walk
And I don't talk
But later on the moment's gone and I don't get it

[Pre-Chorus]
Inside-out in the daytime
Outside-in in the night time
Inside-out in the daytime
Wrong at the right time

[Chorus]
When you're down and troubled
You don't tell your friends
You don't tell your family
I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down

[Bridge]
Who shall I be tonight?
Who's gonna see tonight?
Who shall I be tonight?

[Pre-Chorus]
Inside-out in the daytime
Wrong at the right time
I wanna know I'm good for you
Outside-in in the night time
Right at the wrong time
I wanna know I'm good to you

[Chorus]
When you're down and troubled
You don't tell your friends
You don't tell your family
I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down

When you're down and troubled
You don't tell your friends
You don't tell your family
I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down

When you're down and troubled
You don't tell your friends
You don't tell your family
I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down

[Outro]
No, no, no, no
I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down down down down

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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