WHAM! - EVERYTHING SHE WANTS

EVERYTHING SHE WANTS

WHAM!

SONGWRITER: GEORGE MICHAEL

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: MAKE IT BIG

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: R & B

YEAR: 1984

Wham! were an English pop music duo consisting of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, formed in Bushey in 1981. They became one of the most commercially successful pop acts of the 1980s, selling more than 30 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. Influenced by funk and soul music and presenting themselves as disaffected youth, Wham!'s 1983 debut album Fantastic addressed the United Kingdom's unemployment problem and teen angst over adulthood.

Their second studio álbum Make It Big in 1984 was a worldwide pop smash hit, charting number one in both the UK and the United States. Associated with the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US, the singles from the album—"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Everything She Wants" and "Careless Whisper"—all topped the US Billboard Hot 100. In 1985, Wham! made a highly publicised 10-day visit to China, the first by a Western pop group. The event was seen as a major watershed moment in increasing friendly bilateral relations between China and the West.

"Everything She Wants" is a song by British pop duo Wham!, originally released as a single in 1984 on Epic Records on a double A-side with "Last Christmas". It was written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo, becoming their third consecutive million-selling number-one hit in the United States.

Uh huh huh...

Oh yeah...

Work...work...

Somebody told me,

Boy, everything she wants is everything she sees...

I guess I must have loved you.

'Cause I said you were the perfect girl for me,

Maybe...

But now we're six months older...

And everything you want and everything you see,

Is out of reach...not good enough...

I don't know what the hell you want from me but boy...

Uh huh huh...

Oh...oh...

Uh huh huh...

Doo doo doo...

La la la la...

Somebody tell me,

Won't you tell me...

Why I work so hard for you?

All to give you money

All to give you money...

Some people work for a living,

Some people work for fun,

Girl, I just work for you.

They told me marriage was a give and take,

Well, show me you can take you've got some giving to do.

And now you tell me that you're having my baby,

I'll tell you that I'm happy if you want me to...

One step further and my back will break,

If my best isn't good enough

Than how can it be good enough for two?

I can't work any harder than I do...

Somebody tell me,

Won't you tell me...

Why I work so hard for you?

All to give you money,

All to give you money...

Oh...

Why do I do the things I do?

I'd tell you if I knew.

My God...

I don't even think that I love you....

Won't you tell me...

Tell me...tell me...tell me...

How could you settle for a boy like me,

When all I could see was the end of the week...

All the things we sign,

And the things we buy,

Ain't gonna keep us together...

It's just a matter of time.

My situation,

Never changes.

Walking in that manner through that door,

Like a stranger,

But the wages...

I give you all you say you want is love...

And all I can see is the end of the week,

All the things we sign,

And the things we buy,

Ain't gonna keep us together...

Girl, it's just a matter of time.

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