Released: March 6, 1995
Songwriter: B.A. Robertson Mike Rutherford
Producer: Christopher Neil Mike Rutherford
I'd like my life to be simple
I need my life to be straight
I'd like to see my existence
Going great going great
Going great great great
I want my life to be easy
Need my life to be pure
I want to see my success is
Guaranteed that's for sure
That's for sure sure sure
Give me the simple life
The plain and the simple life
You've got to give me the simple life
The plain and the simple life
Don't want my life to be anxious
Don't need my life to be tense
I'd like to see my existence
Making sense making sense
Making sense sense sense
I'd like my life to be simple
Like my life to be plain
So don't you say that I ever
Live in vain live in vain
That's insane sane sane
Give me the simple life
The plain and the simple life
Give me the simple life
The plain and the simple
Give me the simple life
The plain and the simple life
Give me the simple life
The plain and the simple
I need my life to be straight
I'd like to see my existence
Going great going great
Going great great great
I want my life to be easy
Need my life to be pure
I want to see my success is
Guaranteed that's for sure
That's for sure sure sure
Give me the simple life
The plain and the simple life
You've got to give me the simple life
The plain and the simple life
Don't want my life to be anxious
Don't need my life to be tense
I'd like to see my existence
Making sense making sense
Making sense sense sense
I'd like my life to be simple
Like my life to be plain
So don't you say that I ever
Live in vain live in vain
That's insane sane sane
Give me the simple life
The plain and the simple life
Give me the simple life
The plain and the simple
Give me the simple life
The plain and the simple life
Give me the simple life
The plain and the simple
more tracks from the album
Beggar on a Beach of Gold
- Web of Lies
- Someone Always Hates Someone
- You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
- The Ghost of Sex and You
- Another Cup of Coffee
- Going Going.... Home
- A House of Many Rooms
- Over My Shoulder
- Something to Believe In
- I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)
- A Beggar on a Beach of Gold
- Mea Culpa
- Plain and Simple
From the album
- Beggar on a Beach of Gold (1995)
Mike + the Mechanics popular songs
- The Living Years
- Silent Running
- Let Me Fly
- Over My Shoulder
- Don’t Know What Came Over Me
- Why Me?
- Get Up
- A Beggar on a Beach of Gold
- All I Need Is a Miracle
- I Think I’ve Got the Message
- I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)
- Black & Blue
- Whenever I Stop
- Too Many Friends
- Stop Baby
- Always Listen to Your Heart
- If I Were You
- Something to Believe In
- Ain’t That Peculiar
- The Way You Look at Me
- Word of Mouth
- Everybody Gets a Second Chance
- A House of Many Rooms
- Reach Out (Touch the Sun)