Who’s listening to this masterpiece in 2024?

There was once a time, before the internet, when people could vanish from your life forever and you relied on music like this to fill the void they left..

This is not just a song it’s a feeling. The saddest part about nostalgia is knowing you’re never going back

We don’t search for old songs.. we search for old memories.

Im still listening to this 2024 ❤️

It will never be like it was in the 90s. What a time...

Today is my late son's birthday. He would have been 36 born in the year of the Dragon. It would have been a big party. He passed in 2012 in the year of the Dragon. Nothing left to say! I miss him like the deserts miss the rain!

One of the best songs of 90s

I'm 44 now, and I like this era of music more and more as I get older.

Before the internet, cell phones and social media, when you broke up with someone and you lost all contact with them, sometimes walking by their old address or places you both used to hang out at or having old photographs was the only way to remember and relive those memories. Sometimes people change their names or move to other countries and stay hidden or are lost forever. This is such a melancholic masterpiece of a song and a missive to lost love.

I just love that Ben and Tracey are still married with 3 children.😊😊😊😊

I could write an essay about how ridiculously underrated this track is. Simple yet haunting.

In the 90's if someone moved and you didn't have their info.. they were just gone forever

This song always reminded me of what it felt like when my then husband disappeared. He became addicted to opiates it took us 8 years to find him. He’s been sober now 30 years

It's like visiting the house you grew up in after years and years away.......still expecting to see Mum!.

I MISS THE 90'S, LIKE THE DESERTS MISS THE RAIN! :(

This song came out very shortly after my wife died. Every time I go home and walk down Delmar in St Louis oh, I hear this song in the back of my head..... It's a Bittersweet memory that I'm not real sure if anyone would ever truly understand.

Don’t cry for what’s gone. Smile for what you had.

What a voice...amazing and so nostalgic for the 90's. The BEST!!

This song was severely underrated.

MID 90S was actually a great time for music

2024....1994 Amplified Heart....still rocking with Everything But The Girl.

We used to have this on cassette tape, Now That's What I call Music 1995 or something. I have a memory of this song. I can remember it's a winter's evening, very cold and dark outside but inside our family home the curtains were pulled, the lights are turned down low and everything seemed cozy, with this being played on our stereo and everyone was happy.

Tracy Thorn, underrated and one of the best female vocals of the 80's and 90's

Hard to believe this is almost 30 years old. My, where has time gone ?

Heard this song today while out shopping and broke down crying on my way back home. Really missing my wife who died from cancer two years ago. :(

Before, everything was so natural, simple and better than today. I really miss it

I have never forgotten about this song back in the day, when MTV was alive and kicking. The best of MTV music.

Missing this song July 28th, 2024 ❤❤

Brings back memories, driving with my bro to Johannesburg in his yellow beetle.

Only Annie Lennox, Tracey Thorn and Sade Adu can sing like this.

There is something so haunting , sad and painful about this song.... When I listen to it the memories of loved ones and lovers gone forever fill my mind.... Life is so beautiful and Tragic at the same time....

My wife passed away three months ago and I keep thinking of this song and how much I miss her, as the song says so well, like the deserts miss the rain.

When my father died my sister and I were encouraged to go out with friends. This was played and I remember my sister and I just looking at each other with the lights dancing across our crying faces. Two weeks ago we lost our mother and this song has just come up on my feed.

I remember listening to this song shortly after my dad died. I was laying on the bed, it was Summer and I felt a sense of emptiness and longing. This song was like a caress in that moment.

One of the most influential songs of 90's you never forget.

Do you ever get homesick for a place that doen’t exist anymore? 💔💔💔

Loddy is listening as long as I'm alive. This song has the perfect words for a situation I was in back in 1995. I love it!❤❤❤

The lyrics hit me like a train. Too many memories flooding my head now.

***I close my eyes while listening this song and in front of me instantly i see myself, as a 16 years old schoolgirl, yearning for fairytale lovestory, waiting for my exciting future life to happend, and with a big bag full of dreams in my hands. Isn't it amazing how JUST ONE SONG can put us on a time machine and at least for a 4 minutes and 5 seconds we can be a teenagers again..!!!!!??!

☹I first heard this in 2009 the week before my beloved Anita took her life. 2024 and I still can't move on but still love this beautiful song.. And I miss you.....

It sums up every emotion I have about getting older and how life changes 😢

90s...almost 50 and it's by far the best. If we could rewind, that's where I'd visit. Many mistakes but so many memories💕

This is my dads favorite song to this day, and he doesn’t even know English. He always swears you can hear the emotion in her voice and that’s what makes the song powerful. 💕

I was living in Boca Raton Florida when this song came out and here i am in July 2024 who is with me?

A bit therapeutic for me 😢 Lost a friend a long time ago 😞 I keep a special place for him in my heart always ❤ And I miss him 😫 like the deserts miss the rain 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

One of the softest, silky smooth songs done in the 90's by a very beautiful woman.

This song literally makes me feel like im back in the 90s

35 YEARS NOW AND I MISS YOU FROM THE FIRST DAY I SAW YOU!!!!

The one and only !!! I always loved 'I miss you like the desert miss the rain' !! Thank you !

The agonising pain of missing someone you still hope will walk back into your life and the acceptance they wont..missing you Lilac, rest sweetly.

2020 , This song brings back so many Memories. Lost , sadness , a past you cannot change. But now , acceptance . Great Song.

This song will always bring me back to a very difficult time. Good lessons learned then.

For me this has always been a song about longing…for things or beloved person lost that you can never get back no matter how much you look. Sometimes we know better to just let go but in the back of your mind you can’t help searching. That’s what this song always felt like to me.

As a songwriter myself...I can say this is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Perfection.

Some songs just can't never be forgotten!

This song’s memory brings a panicked sense of weight to my heart of a time now so long ago that slipped through my hands. Realizing as I listen this shadowy memory is dancing further out of focus.

I worked at Sears when I was younger, and they would play this song over the store speakers sometimes. The rest of their playlist was terrible, as was the job, but discovering this song almost made working there worth it. I quit after a few months and moved on with my life-traveled, experienced the world, went through a heartbreak or two. A decade later, as I approach thirty, this song has started popping back into my head. I think back to my eighteen-year-old self folding clothes at the store, this song playing from the scratchy speakers in the ceiling, and I realize there's no way I could have really understood what this song was about at the time. I'm only just now beginning to understand. It resonates more and more as time goes on, and lately has begun to give me goosebumps each time I hear it. Thank you for the wonderful music, EBTG.

Lyrics: I step off the train I'm walking down your street again And past your door, but you don't live there anymore It's years since you've been there 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 Like the deserts miss the rain Could you be dead? You always were two steps ahead, of everyone 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 hanging round your old address? And the years have proved To offer, nothing since you've moved You're long gone, but I can't move on And I miss you Like the deserts miss the rain And I miss you Like the deserts miss the rain And I miss you I step off the train I'm walking down your street again And past your door, I guess 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, yeah Like the deserts miss the rain And I miss you, and I miss you Like the deserts miss the rain And I miss you, yeah Like the deserts miss the rain The deserts miss the rain Like the deserts miss the rain Like the deserts miss the rain Like the deserts miss the rain

63 years old. I remember when this song came out. For me, it put into words how I felt about the people in my life that had passed away. I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain. Gone, but not forgotten. Love U Miss U, Soooo much See you on the other side someday Can't wait to see you again.

Nothing like the 90's ❤ take me back

For me, this song brings back living in southern Germany, in an Alfa Romeo heading down to the lakes on a sunny day with the windows down - so far from home. In those days, when you travelled, you really were far away from home and it was a real adventure. First time hearing Everything But The Girl was in that Alfa on that sunny day, 22 years old.

2:24 A bold creative choice that has made this music so exceptional. Almost no melody, only meaningful words. What an experience to listen to this, even years and years after hearing It for the first time. I used to listen to this as a child, now I'm literally feeling this music.

This is a song who will always be part of the soundtrack of my life! 2023 and it makes me feel like when I was in my early teenage years ❤

Tracey Thorn has a sweet powerful amazing voice that will sound good 50 yrs from now. Wish she and Ben would cover 50's country songs.

The song just pure 90's vibe.

This song is so sad and beautiful at the same time.

One of the most beautiful songs ever ❤️❤️❤️

90s gold , even the video show the simplicity of the decade people were more real and less flashy

This song is deeper than the oceans ...

Man……this song brings me so many memories from 1997 when I was 17 years old, now I’m almost 43 and still can’t grasp how time has flown by so fast 😭

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

This is the song that reminds me of my sister. She was my best friend and she died in the 2004.

Back when there’s no social media to know where this person might be.

I am. Probably always will be. There's no vanishing now, at least not completely, but this song is an anthem to that time of easy vanishing that our kids will never, ever know... But who is luckier for this - us, or our kids...?

This should be definitely as one of top songs in human art

There is an honesty in Tracy's voice .

Makes me think of my beautiful sister who passed away she was so pretty, my hero, my Baby girl, still Fucking hurts after 11 years, still can't breathe without her, life's but a short lived story, love your people, appreciate, and let them know♥️

It is so important when rare artists like Tracy Thorn are able to articulate so clearly what we are feeling so deeply but are unable to articulate either to ourselves or to those around us. In the absence of words, we bleed in silence until she sings what is in our hearts...

30 years on, I miss you…

I was so attached to the person who showed me this song, and now is all memories... ironic and sad, but still love the song :(

Everyone in the comments saying this is an underrated song... You couldn't turn on the radio or walk into a club in the 90s and not hear this. It was *huge* - and rightfully so. It's a fantastic track from a fantastic duo.

That line “could you be dead” gets me every time. Makes me wonder if those who were once close to me are still here.

This song is what love is to me, Abuse and goodbye.

Sometimes I wonder if somewhere in the world there are still people who feel the same emotions I feel while listening to this song.

Been a favorite for 2 decades, but just now understanding the depth if this gem.

This original version is the best, this original song version is so much smoother than the remix version played on radio the last 25 years.

Beautiful song I love it at 64 years old I love music I have already added that to my collection

Lyrics 🎶 🎶 🎶 I step off the train I'm walking 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, like the deserts miss the rain Could you be dead? You always were two steps ahead, of everyone 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 hanging round your old address? And the years have proved To offer, nothing since you've moved You're long gone, but I can't move on And I miss you (like the deserts miss the rain) And I miss you, yeah (like the deserts miss the rain) And I miss you I step off the train I'm walking down your street again And past your door, I guess 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, yeah And I miss you You found some better place And I miss you (like the deserts miss the rain) And I miss you, yeah (like the deserts miss the rain) And I miss you, and I miss you (Like the deserts miss the rain) And I miss you, yeah (like the deserts miss the rain) The deserts miss the rain (Like the deserts miss the rain) Like the deserts miss the rain (Like the deserts miss the rain) And I miss you, yeah (like the deserts miss the rain) Your Welcome ❤

Who’s watching this on 2021 ? Missing the freedom of the 90’s we took our perfect world for granted ... can’t wait to hit the dance floors again and dance the night away. Love you all ❤️

man this is still fire 🔥🔥🔥

Tracey Thorn has a voice of gold. She and Ben Watts were/are the quintessential couple. They love their craft and seemingly each other. I “Miss” them. Great song, yet they reflect what many want. True love and respect for each other. Wish they would recreate that video.

Whenever I visit my hometown, there are places I drive by, my first girlfriend's house, places we would hang out, the last place my mother lived before she passed away. It's a bittersweet drive and I'm not even entirely sure why I do it but I remember and it just seems like what I need to do. I've always loved this song because I understand it so well.

This song is timeless and still relevant in 2020 🙂🙏

I used to listen to this song over and over again, back when it first came out.

You can’t get much better than this 👋🏻👋🏻

This song get you sooner or later... regardless of your timing! It never gets old!

so close to 2020 and still in❤with this song...

Lives bopping to this in liverpool back.in the day times were sweet then I'm lucky to have seen them days

Wow I remember singing this over and over when I split up with my first partner . Now we are still friends after 40 years