Simply Red

Watching love drifting away
And I feel like I'm someone else
The hurting is rough
Long are the days
And you have hurt me enough

You're scared to be loved
You know that's your way
Your youth has made you too tough
You're hurting for love in so many ways
The truth has hurt you enough

I read a book
And it's your face
Fake.. it's your face now
Still my love for you was no mistake
Fake...I will always love you
Fake

Hoping for love
Day after day
And it's always someone else
The hurting is rough
Long are the days
And you have hurt me enough

You're burning your hair
On your cigarette, oh baby
Turning your nose up
At the clothes your girlfriend wears
I don't care

I read a book
And it's your face
Fake.. it's your face now
Still my love for you was no mistake
Fake...I will always love you
Fake

Always, always, always I will love you

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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