Simple Minds

The road opens wide
There is space here for two of us
If I could slip under the wire
We'd wait here
Just stay here a while
Slumped, the body's tired and this fear
Never lets me sleep
Your smile
This trial elates
In your eyes
I see mothers open gates

If fortune could smile
There'd be room here for two of us
And I would burn myself through the wires
With hate
Concentrated
Unearthed
Disparate
In time

Once in a while
If peace held for two of us
If we could show mercy a while
With patience
Transcending
This coldness, never ending, thru time

And if home still matters
And if these bones
Were not so shattered
What state so desperate
Within a hollow shell, in a forgotten state
Come tear the dirt from my eyes

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band that formed in Glasgow in 1977. The most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s, they have achieved five UK number one albums during their career and have sold over 70 million records worldwide. Despite various personnel changes, they continue to record and tour.

The core of the band is the two remaining founding members – Jim Kerr (vocals, songwriting) and Charlie Burchill (guitars, keyboards after 1990, other instruments, songwriting). The other current band members are Andy Gillespie (keyboards), drummer Mel Gaynor (who first joined the band in 1982) and Ged Grimes (bass guitar). Former members include bass guitarist Derek Forbes, drummer Brian McGee, and keyboardist Mick MacNeil.

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