Simply Red

Released: September 30, 1991

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

Producer: Stewart Levine

Looking at yourself in the mirror baby
Telling yourself to be up this morning
Holding in your hand another mirror baby
One or two lines for confidence

Pretty little girls
Climb to the top
The raging takes her
Down down down
(lonely baby)

Eating alligator for dinner baby
A restaurant that made it to the top
Smoothies always get to pay for dinner
Baby
The food was the last thing you came for

Pretty little girls
Climb to the top
The raging takes her
Down down down
(see them fall)
(you can see them fall down)
(fall)
(fall down)

Pretty little girls
Climb to the top
The raging takes her
Down down down
(see them fall)
(look at them fall)
(you can see them)
(see them fall)
(you can see them)
(you can see them fall)
(see them)
(you can see them fall)
(it's lonely)

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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