Simply Red

To be free
Or to feel free
The first one is a myth

Yeah to be free
Or to feel free
The first one is a myth

For to be is to feel and to be real is to see

You want more
You say you want me
He left us alone as day was dawning

You got more
Did you get me
Red sleeps after sunrise has fallen

You hard core
You're hard on me
You're dressed up at dawn way before me

Bereft as the sunlight was falling upon me

To be free
Or to feel free
The first one is a myth

To be free
Or to feel free
The first one is a myth

To be is to feel and to be real is to see

To come is so organic unbelievable
A solitary sign to open up your mind
A love that's so organic unbelievable
A solitary sign to open up your mind

Open up your mind

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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