Simply Red

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

Dark nights, headlights
I'm going home
Stars bright, hold tight
I'm coming home

And when I do
I'm gonna love you more
Than I've ever done before
Yes I'm going home

I've paid the price
I'm alone tonight
Still I'm coming home

It feels so right
Heading home tonight
No more alone

And when I do
I gotta love you, more
Than I've ever done before
Yes I'm coming home

I'm going home

I pray the night
Will treat me right
Oh take me home

The stars are bright in paradise
No more alone

And when I do
I gotta love you, more
Than I've ever done before
Yes I'm coming home

I'm coming home
No more alone
I gotta get there
I gotta get there
I'm coming home, yes I am now

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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