Simply Red

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

There is no place to hide now
There is no need to be here
She left me all behind now
I cry into my beer

Her words have left me cold now
She's gone not far but too near
Still see her every day now
I cry into my beer

Sometimes words are wrong
When they tell you, how you're feeling
Well I'm a long lost day
I just linger on
I'm still searching for a way of carrying on

I cried all day
Oh what a fool that day
It hurt me when you were gone
I'm hurt but then I deserved it when two love lives turned to one

I gaze down from my window
The apartment we shared for years
She's laid there in the ground now
I cry into my beers

No games of love for me now
No way, no one can be near
I've left it all behind now
I cry into my beer
I cry into my beer
I cry into my beer

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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