Simply Red

Released: October 14, 1985

Songwriter: Jerry Harrison David Byrne

Producer: Stewart Levine

Ev'ryone is trying to get to the bar
The name of the bar
The bar is called Heaven
The band in Heaven
They play my favourite song
They play it once again
They play it all night long

Chorus:
Heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens

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There is a party, everyone is there
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, could be so much fun

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When this kiss is over it will start again
It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, could be so much fun

-chorus-

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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