Simply Red

Ooh I remember those old love letters
Plagued with memories, I can't forget us
Trying to fight it, trying to hide it

Rekindled flames are not recommended
But it never went out boy, it never ended
Trying to fight it, trying to hide it
But your love it shines

In a cruel hard world
It's a miracle to find
Someone good, someone whose love it shines
Your love it shines

Here in this apartment with oh too many rooms
Pearls once meant something, they brought me only gloom
Trying to fight it, trying to hide it
Rekindled flames are not recommended
But it never went out boy, it never ended
Crime can fight it, lies can hide it
But your love it shines

In a cruel hard world
It's a miracle to find
Someone good, someone whose love it shines
Your love it shines

You'd better shine your love, shine your love, shine it up
You'd better shine your love, shine your love, shine it up

In a cruel hard world
It's a miracle to find
Someone good, someone whose love it shines
Your love it shines

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.

more tracks from the album

If You Don’t Know Me By Now

From the albums

Men and Women (1987)
If You Don’t Know Me By Now (1989)

Simply Red popular songs

ShineSimply Red

Simply Red

If You Don’t Know Me By Now