Simply Red

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

Producer: Alex Sadkin

I've been a fool, talking to myself and no-one else
I play it cool, so cool that no-one ever understands me

Maybe one day someone will come
Now! Now

I didn't do the things I was supposed to do
You didn't move, you used me and I used you too

Maybe one day someone will come
Maybe one day someone will come

Why it's killing you, is a reason for yourself and no-one else
I couldn't move, you used it and it used you too

Maybe one day someone will come
Maybe one day someone will come

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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