Simply Red

I can't pronounce it
Don't even understand
The words I mean
My tongue's tied
Up around it
My brain is so tired
But my heart is so warm

I wanna be with you
To talk with you
To sleep with you
Most of all
To make love to you

Last night I dreamed about it
The rooms in these hotels
Are the same around the world
I could really do without it
I'll only hate myself
If I take another girl

I wanna be with you
I wanna talk with you
I wanna sleep with you
Most of all
To make love to you

Oh if I ever get home again
If you could ever
Do the same thing too
I could open up my soul again
I have to get this message to you

I wanna be with you
I wanna talk with you
I wanna sleep with you
I wanna make love to you
Love to you
You've got that feeling inside
And you know
My joy just can't hide

Simply Red is a British soul and pop band. The first incarnation of the band was a punk group called The Frantic Elevators, whose seven-year run produced limited releases on local labels and ended in 1984 upon critical acclaim for their final single, “Holding Back the Years”.

By early 1985, Mick Hucknall and manager Elliot Rashman had assembled a band of local session musicians and begun to attract record company attention. The group adopted the name “Red” (after Hucknall’s nickname, denoting his hair colour) but then Mick decided it would sound better with the addition of the word ‘Simply.’

Since the mid 1980s, the band has sold more than 50 million albums.

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