You always were two steps ahead

Lordy. Miss Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl turns 50 years old today...

I simply adored the duo through their avant garde roots right through to this storming Todd Terry remix of their most famous hit - it's Missing (of course):

Everything But The Girl - Missing

I step off the train
I'm walkin' down your street again
And past your door
But you don't live there anymore
It's years since you've been there
And now you've disappeared somewhere
Like outer space
You've found some better place

And I miss you
(Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you
Oh
(Like the deserts miss the rain)

Could you be dead?
You always were two steps ahead
Of ev'ryone
We'd walk behind while you would run
I look up at your house
And I can almost hear you shout, down to me
Where I always used to be

And I miss you
(Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you
(Like the deserts miss the rain)

Back on the train
I ask why did I come again
Can I confess
I've been hangin' 'round your old address?
And the years have proved
To offer nothin' since you moved
You're long gone
But I can't move on

And I miss you
Oh-oh (Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you, yeah
(Like the deserts miss the rain) And I miss you

I am surely not the only one who considers the fact she was never seen in the same room as Nicholas Lyndhurst (Rodney Trotter)...

Tracey Thorn official website