"Raise the Roof" is a song written by Tracey Thorn

Tracey Thorn

Tracey Anne Thorn is an English pop singer and songwriter. She is best known as being one half of the duo Everything but the Girl, which is currently on extended hiatus.-Personal life:...

 and Tom Gandey. It appears as the final track on Thorn's second solo album Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods is the second solo album from Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn - her first since 1982's A Distant Shore - released on 5 March 2007 on Virgin Records. The album charted on the Billboard 200, peaking at #172 on 7 April 2007.The majority of the album's production was by...

and it was released as the second single in June 2007.

It is a mid-tempo, beat-heavy track in which Thorn urges the subject of the song to experience life and love, while lamenting the time she wasted herself, sitting on her own. The song ends with the plea "Why did I wait? Don't tell me it's too late."

Thorn announced the release of this single (as well as her album's upcoming third single, Grand Canyon) on her MySpace

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 blog

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 on April 26, 2007.

The music video for "Raise The Roof" was shot by Edu Grau in Bucharest

Bucharest

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. The 12" vinyl single contains two remixes (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-animation, Cagedbaby Remix), the digitally only 4 track EP contains two Stephin Merrit songs, ("Smoke and Mirrors", "Book of Love"), that Thorn went back into the studio to record.

Digital download EP

1. "Raise the Roof"
2. "The Book of Love"
3. "Raise the Roof" (Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve Re-Animation)
4. "Smoke and Mirrors"

12-inch vinyl

1. "Raise the Roof"
2. "Raise the Roof" (Cagedbaby Remix)
3. "Raise the Roof" (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation)

UK Promo CD 1

1. Raise The Roof (Radio Edit) (3:38)
2. Raise The Roof (Album Version) (4:00)
3. Raise The Roof (Cagedbaby Remix Edit) (3:03)
4. Raise The Roof (Instrumental) (4:01)

UK Promo CD 2

1. Raise The Roof (Original Mix)
2. Raise The Roof (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation)
3. Raise The Roof (Cagedbaby Remix)
4. Raise The Roof (Cagedbaby Dub)

UK Promo CD 3

1. Raise The Roof (Radio Edit) (3:38)
2. Raise The Roof (Cagedbaby Remix)
3. Raise The Roof (Cagedbaby Dub)
4. Raise The Roof (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation)
5. Smoke and Mirrors
6. The Book of Love

UK Promo 12 inch

1. A1 Raise The Roof (Cagedbaby Remix)
2. A2 Raise The Roof (Cagedbaby Dub)
3. B Raise The Roof (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation)