Simple Minds

Released: March 25, 1979

Songwriter: Charlie Burchill Jim Kerr

Producer: John Leckie

Life in a day
The price that you pay
For a time that you spent
It's such a fatal event
Take a look at your watch
There is no time to wait
Take a look deep inside
There's no escape from this day

It's life in a Day
Life in a day
Take a look around you
Is it true what they say?
Life in a day
Life in a day
Is there no place to hide
Could there be some other way?

Can you see how they run?
Do you believe what they say?
They'll soon be looking for you
For sure they'll get you away
The premonition came true
Look all around and you'll see
Some say it takes two to know
Or could it all just be me?

Life in a day
Life in a day
I love to see how they run
They came a running this way
Life in a day
Life in a day
Those eyes are looking for you
They're going to get you one day

Life in a day
Life in a day
Life in a day
Life in a day

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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