Would I Lie to You?

by

Eurythmics

Album: Be Yourself Tonight      Released: 1985

US Chart: 5     UK Chart: 17

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For Eurythmics third album, Dave Stewart set out to make a "killer R&B riff." He found it one morning when he was having breakfast with his acoustic guitar on his knee. He took the riff to Annie Lennox, who wan't sure about it at first, since it didn't fit their sound. As Stewart explains in The Dave Stewart Songbook: "When we started putting it down the song had a lot of energy and inspired Annie to come up with the great lyric, 'Would I Lie To You" and a melody with very odd answering harmonies, 'Now, would I say something that wasn't true.' These harmonies are very unusual and Annie is a genius at working them out very quickly in her head. The song started to be a fusion between Stax type R&B and Eurythmics."

Lennox sings this from the perspective of an angry girlfriend who walks out on her cheating lover. It was not directed at Stewart, although they were a romantic couple before forming Eurythmics. (Read our interview with Dave Stewart.)

Eurythmics recorded Be Yourself Tonight in a small room they set as a recording studio in the suburbs of Paris. Lennox and Stewart lived in apartments on top of each other while they were making the album.

Benmont Tench from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers played the Hammond organ on this track; he and Stewart previously worked together on "Don't Come Around Here No More." Martin Dobson was brought in for horns.

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