Simply Red

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall Lamont Dozier

Producer: Stewart Levine

This impossible power, a strength that I can't see
There's no way that I can let you go
Why did I mistake sex for another sense
Then wanted someone else to try to tell you no

I think you understand
Oh that you've got it
I try hard but I can't
Oh do without it
I think you understand that you've got it

This impossible power has broken into me
And stolen all the sense that I had before
Why did I just take and never understand
The love you've given me could've learnt me more

I think you understand
Oh that you've got it
I try hard but I can't
Oh do without it
I think you understand that you've got it

What made you think that I'd be true to you
I needed to prove it to myself
That I could let you go
What made you think that I'd be a fool for you
You knew that I was lying
There was something I was hiding

I think you understand
Oh that you've got it
I try hard but I can't
Oh do without it

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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