Simply Red

Released: September 30, 1991

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

Producer: Stewart Levine

I get off my things, I lay down in the sidelines
I don't feel that I hide, just permanently ride
And I'm waiting for your gentle rain
Something that'll help me learn

But one look at her and you know
That she's got it bad
One look in the mirror shows
I live as i want
But she's got it bad

Check it out, check it out, roll up there now
Huh!
She's headed for a festival of heartache
Miss executive desperation you only suck the
Blood that's spilled
Your macho imitation femininity is killed
I pray that you feel no pain
Only if it helps you learn

But one look at her and you know
That she's got it bad
One look and the mirror shows
I live as i want
But she's got it bad
She knows it
It shows!

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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