Simply Red

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

Producer: Stewart Levine

[Verse 1]
Why don't you look at the price I'm paying?
Walk in, take a look inside
I've moved back the tables and the chairs to the wall
The valuable thing I've had to hide

[Chorus]
Open up the red box
Come on open it up
Open up the red box
Come on open it up

[Verse 2]
Peer in, looking for that crasher again
You ruined Terry's party last night
An overweight greasy little man with a mouth
That opens more than now and again

[Chorus]
Open up the red box
Come on open it up
Open up the red box
Come on open it up

[Post-Chorus]
Something good must have happened to you
If you would let it happen to you
If you could let it happen to you
Something good would have happened

[Bridge]
Lopez, I hate you for the state you're in
Lopez, your hair it washes out, it washes in
You ropey little fat boy, Lopez
Come on, get lost

[Chorus]
Open up the red box
Come on open it up
Open up the red box (open up the red box now)
Come on open it up

[Post-Chorus]
Something good must have happened to you
If you would let it happen to you
If you could let it happen to you
Something good would have happened
Something good must have happened to you
(I'm out of my head) Let it happen to you
(I'm out of my head) Let it happen to you
(I'm out of my head) Would have happened
I'm out of my head (tell 'em what you are)
I'm out of my head (tell 'em what you are)
I'm out of my head (tell 'em what you are)
I'm out of my head (tell 'em what you are)

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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