UB40

Released: July 18, 2005

Songwriter: Norris Weir Tommy Cowan

Producer: UB40

Lose, you're gonna lose
Things you say you love
You're gonna lose

Can't last too long
The way you are shaping
Can't last too long
The way you're vibrating

Lose, your gonna lose
Things you say you love
You're gonna lose

Can't last too long
The way you are flirting
Can't last too long
The things you are doing - that's why I say

Lose, you're gonna lose
Things you say you love
You're gonna lose

Can't last too long
The way you are flirting
Can't last too long
The things you are doing

Lose, you're gonna lose
Things you say you love
You're gonna lose

Can't last too long
The way you are shaping
Can't last too long
The way you're vibrating

That's why I say

Lose, you're gonna lose
Things you say you love
You're gonna lose

Things you say you love
You're gonna lose

Things you say you love
You're gonna lose

Things you say you love
You're gonna lose

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, and in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group. UB40 have sold over 70 million records. The ethnic make-up of the band’s original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage.

Their hit singles include their debut “Food for Thought”, “Red Red Wine” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love”. Both of these also topped the UK Singles Chart, as did the band’s version of “I Got You Babe”. Their two most successful albums, Labour of Love (1983) and Promises and Lies (1993), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.

On January 24, 2008, it was announced that Ali Campbell would be leaving the group after 30 years. It was reported by some Birmingham newspapers on 13 March 2008, that Maxi Priest would be the new lead singer of UB40 and had recorded a cover of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” with the band.

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