Simply Red

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

Escape reality
Life's real enough
Forget mortality
It's coming soon enough
Remember her lips
Or her tender arms

And don't be afraid of the ghost of love
It'll haunt you as long as you want
The ghost of love
A round of applause and a toast for love
Get most from love
With hope from above

Forget about nations
They're strong enough
Next generations
They're coming soon enough
Let's do it right now
With our tender arms

And don't be afraid of the ghost of love
It'll haunt you as long as you want
The ghost of love
A round of applause and a toast for love
Get most from love
With hope from above

And don't be afraid of the ghost of love
It'll haunt you as long as you want
The ghost of love
A round of applause and a toast for love

Get most from love
With hope from above
Hope from above
Oh so much love
So so much love
Hope from above
Ghost of love

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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