Simply Red

For those who are in love
I'm with you babies
How can it be that we feel this way?
For those who are a bluff
I fear you ladies, how can you treat little me this way?

It's a drug that brings you pleasure and pain
It's a love that leaves you crying in the rain

Yeah I'm your lover, Oh I'm your lover
A ring-a-ling, Ting-a-ling lover
A sing-a-ling, Ting-a-ling lover

How can it be when you're with me baby
You feel the same way as me?
I hope you're not a bluff, 'cos I need you baby
Do you feel the same way as me?

There's an invisible contact between us
A hope and a dream that the words the poets
Have been writing are real

More than a dream
More than just a sex machine
But a lover...

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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