Biography:
Everything But the Girl (EBTG), was a Hull, Yorkshire, UK, folk-pop / trip-hop duo of Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn. They débuted with a single for a Cole Porter cover, Night And Day (Mar 1982, Cherry Red). Their final album was Temperamental (Sept 1999, Virgin).
Ben met Tracey when they were at Hull University and she was singing in pop girl-band Marine Girls. Ben contributed a photograph, for a forthcoming album cover, after which, the pair became partners (later getting married).
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Other songs:
- Missing
- 25Th Of December
- Dont Let The Teardrops Rust Your Shining Heart
- Downtown Train
- Each And Every One
- Frost And Fire
- Heart Remains A Child
- I Dont Want To Talk About It
- Mirrorball
- Night And Day
- Old Friends
- One Place
- Piece Of My Mind
- Rollercoaster
- Single
- Troubled Mind
- We Walk The Same Line
- When Alls Well
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Intro (mute the first string)
F/G G/A A/B
F/G G/A A#/C
F/G G/A A/B
F/G G/A E/F#
A/B E7 (2x)
A/B E7 A/B E7
If you ever feel the time to drop me a loving line
C#m9 F#6
Maybe you should just think twice
C#m9 F#6 Cdim7
I don't wait around on your advice
Chorus 2:
Emaj7 D#m7 G#7+5 G#7
You tell me I can go this far, but no more
Emaj7 D#m7 G#7+5 G#7
Try to show me heaven and then slam the door
Emaj7 D#m7 G#7+5 G#7
You offer shelter at a price much too dear
C#m9 F#6 F#7+5
And your kind of love's the kind that soon disappears
A/B E7 (2x)
A/B E7
So don't brag how you have changed
A/B E7
And everything's been rearranged
C#m9 F#6
I thought all that was over and done
C#m9 F#6 Cdim7
But I still get the same from each and everyone
Chorus 2:
Emaj7 D#m7
Being kind is just a way to keep me
G#7+5 G#7
Under your thumb
Emaj7 D#m7
And I can cry because that's something
G#7+5 G#7
We've always done
Emaj7 D#m7
You tell me I'm free of the past now and
G#7+5 G#7
All those lies
C#m9 F#6 F#7+5
Then offer me the same thing in a different guise
Instrumental
F#m G#m Gm
F#m G#m C#dim7(?)
F#m G#m Gm
F#m G#m Cdim7
Repeat chorus 1
Chords found on http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/index.php
F/G G/A A/B
F/G G/A A#/C
F/G G/A A/B
F/G G/A E/F#
A/B E7 (2x)
A/B E7 A/B E7
If you ever feel the time to drop me a loving line
C#m9 F#6
Maybe you should just think twice
C#m9 F#6 Cdim7
I don't wait around on your advice
Chorus 2:
Emaj7 D#m7 G#7+5 G#7
You tell me I can go this far, but no more
Emaj7 D#m7 G#7+5 G#7
Try to show me heaven and then slam the door
Emaj7 D#m7 G#7+5 G#7
You offer shelter at a price much too dear
C#m9 F#6 F#7+5
And your kind of love's the kind that soon disappears
A/B E7 (2x)
A/B E7
So don't brag how you have changed
A/B E7
And everything's been rearranged
C#m9 F#6
I thought all that was over and done
C#m9 F#6 Cdim7
But I still get the same from each and everyone
Chorus 2:
Emaj7 D#m7
Being kind is just a way to keep me
G#7+5 G#7
Under your thumb
Emaj7 D#m7
And I can cry because that's something
G#7+5 G#7
We've always done
Emaj7 D#m7
You tell me I'm free of the past now and
G#7+5 G#7
All those lies
C#m9 F#6 F#7+5
Then offer me the same thing in a different guise
Instrumental
F#m G#m Gm
F#m G#m C#dim7(?)
F#m G#m Gm
F#m G#m Cdim7
Repeat chorus 1
Chords found on http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/index.php
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Exaltasamba
Examining Suns
Example