When The Day Goes Down

Album: We Too Are One (1989)
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Songfacts®:

  • Running 5:57, "When The Day Goes Down" is the last track on We Too Are One, the last Eurythmics album until they released Peace 10 years later. The song is very encouraging and uplifting, with Annie Lennox letting us know that we all experience pain and can feel lonely at times. She sings for the "broken dreamers," the "vacant souls," and the "hopeless losers" who are all beautiful and pure in their own way.
  • This song wasn't released as a single, but it's and important one for Eurythmics. Dave Stewart of the duo cites it as the hidden gem in their catalog, telling Songfacts, "Sometimes we could do that just acoustic and everybody's crying."
  • Dave Stewart had taken up residence in Los Angeles when Eurythmics started working on the We Too Are One album. They recorded it in New York and Paris, during which time Stewart offered up his home to a few of his buddies so they could make an album in his home studio: Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne and George Harrison. Using Stewart's kitchen as their primary studio, they put together the first album for their group, the Traveling Wilburys.

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