“Walking on Broken glass (single Version)” by Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox wrote "Walking on Broken Glass" herself and released it in August 1992 as the third single from Diva, her first solo album, with Stephen Lipson producing. The trick is in the mismatch: the words are all raw nerves, about trying to keep going through the pain of a breakup, while the music pulls another way entirely, a gap critics have made much of.

It went to number one in Canada, made the top 10 in the UK and Ireland, and reached 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The video, directed by Sophie Muller with John Malkovich in the cast, was up for British Video of the Year at the 1993 Brit Awards and for Best Female Video at that year's MTV Video Music Awards, and in 1994 the song picked up an ASCAP award as one of the most performed songs.

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