Simple Minds

Descended from a world of darkened places
Descended from a world that’s lost control
Suspended between time and fractured places
I’m waiting for the fall here on my own

Please take me down where the rain drops
Please take me down, down below
Please hold me here where the dreams stop
Please leave me here on my own

It was fate that took me down into the place
I want to cross the borders of control
Take me to the shrine that’s in your basement
And hold me in that place I’ll lose it all

So please take me down where the rain drops
Please take me down so far below
Come take me down to where my dream stops
I don’t know where else I can go

So please take me down to where the rain drops
Please lay me down, down below
Please leave me here where the dream stops
Cause I don’t know where else I can go

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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