The Very Best of Simply Red

Simply Red The Very Best of Simply Red Lyrics
1.Stars

Anyone who ever held you
Would tell you the way i'm feeling
Anyone who ever wanted you
Would try to tell you what i feel inside
The only thing i ever wanted
Was the feeling that you ain't faking
The only one you ever thought about
Wait a minute can't you see that
I wanna fall from the stars
Straight into your arms
I, i feel you
I hope you comprehend
For the man who tried to hurt you
He's explaining the way i'm feeling
For all the jealousy i caused you
States the reason why i'm trying to hide
As for all the things you taught me
It sends my future into clearer dimensions
You'll never know how much you hurt me
Stay a minute can't you see that
I wanna fall from the stars
Straight into your arms
I, i feel you
I hope you comprehend
Too many hearts are broken
A lover's promise never came with a maybe
So many words are left unspoken
The silent voices are driving me crazy
As for all the pain you caused me
Making up could never be your intention
You'll never know how much you hurt me
Stay can't you see that
I wanna fall from the stars
Straight into your arms
I, i feel you
I hope you comprehend
I wanna fall from the stars
Straight into your arms
I, i feel you
I hope you comprehend


2.It's Only Love

Don't be afraid to touch me babe
Girl let's be real
There's nothing wrong
With the way we're carrying on
So enjoy and live
Because
It's only love doing it's thing baby
It's only love that you're feeling
It's only love doing it's thing baby
It's only love that you're giving

I wanna stay with you night and day
Until the end of time
It's OK when you lay
Lay your body next to mine
Because
It's only love doing it's thing baby
It's only love that you're feeling
It's only love doing it's thing baby
It's only love that you're giving


I wanna stay with you night and day
Until the end of time
It's OK when you lay
Lay your body next to mine
Because
It's only love doing it's thing baby
It's only love that you're feeling
It's only love doing it's thing baby
It's only love that you're giving

It's only love doing it's thing baby
It's only love that you're feeling
It's only love doing it's thing baby
It's only love that you're giving

It's only love doing it's thing baby
It's only love that you're feeling
It's only love doing it's thing baby
It's only love that you're giving


3.If You Don't Know Me By Now

If you don't know me by now
You will never never never know me

All the things
That we've been through
You should understand me
Like I understand you
Now girl I know the difference
Between right and wrong
I ain't gonna do nothing
To break up our happy home
Don't get so excited
When I come home
A little late at night
Cos we only act like children
When we argue fuss and fight
If you don't know me by now
You will never never never know me

If you don't know me by now
You will never never never know me

We've all got our
Own funny moods
I've got mine,
Woman you've got yours too
Just trust in me
like I trust in you
As long as we've been together
It should be so easy to do
Just get yourself together
Or we might as well say goodbye
What good is a love affair
When you can't see eye to eye
If you don't know me by now
You will never
Never never know me

If you don't know me by now
You will never
Never never know me

If you don't know me by now
You will never never never know me


4.You've Got It

This impossible power
A strength that I can't see
There's no way
That I can let you go
Why did I mistake sex
For another sense
Then wanted someone else
To try to tell you no
I think you understand
Oh that you've got it
I try hard but I can't
Oh do without it
I think you understand
That you've got it
This impossible power
Has broken into me
And stolen all the sense
That I had before
Why did I just take
And never understand
The love you've given me
Could've learnt me more
I think you understand
Oh that you've got it
I try hard but I can't
Oh do without it
I think you understand
That you've got it

What made you think
That I'd be true to you
I needed to
Prove it to myself
That I could let you go
What made you think that
I'd be a fool for you
You knew that I was lying
There was something
I was hiding
I think you understand
Oh that you've got it
Well I try hard but I can't
Oh do without it


5.For Your Babies

You've got that look again
The one I hoped I had when I was a lad
Your face is just beaming
Your smile got me boasting,
my pulse roller-coastering
Anyway the four winds that blow
They're gonna send me sailing home to you
Or I'll fly with the force of a rainbow
The dream of gold will be waiting in your eyes
You know I'd do most anything you want
Hey I, I try to give you everything you need
I can see that it gets to you
I don't believe in many things
But in you I do
Her faith is amazing
The pain that she goes through
contained in the hope for you
Your whole world has changed
The years spent before seem more cloudy than blue
In many ways your baby's controlling
When you haven't laid down for days
For the poor no time to be thinking
They're too busy finding ways
You know I'd do most anything you want
Hey I, I try to give you everything you need
I'll see that it gets to you
I don't believe in many things
But in you I do


You know I'd do most anything you want
Everyday I,
I try to give you everything you need
We'll always be there for you
But in you I do
I don't believe in many things
But in you I do
I don't believe in many things
But in you I do
I don't believe in many things
But in you I do


6.Never Never Love

So now we've got our independence
What are we gonna do with it?
Learning to play different games
Already using different names
Cause now our love bears no resemblance
To what we had before

Now our love has something for the future
it was all that we saw
When our love was good
it blinded us before
This real revolution baby
Where you're not below me anymore

Never never love can never be enough
Never be enough,
just ain't good enough
Never never love can never be enough
Never be enough, oh no

So now we've got our independence
What are we gonna do with it?
Building the houses,
claiming back the land
Burning the bridges,
cleaning up your hands
Cause now our love
bears no resemblance
To what we had before
Now our love has something for the future
Now our love will grow the seeds
to sow this real revolution
This good revolution baby
Where you're not below me anymore

Never never love can never be enough
Never be enough,
just ain't good enough
Never never love can never be enough
Never be enough, oh no


When our love was good
Album:Life
Now our love will grow the seeds
to sow this real revolution
This good revolution baby
Where you're not below me anymore


7.We're In This Together

All eyes were closed, nobody knows

How the world wasn't able to see
that they were washed-up failures

My eyes are open, my love is strong
I am here to stay
and it will always be that way
We're in this together


My line is strong, my soul it rolls
Somewhere on the train of universal feeling
My eyes are open, just like the ocean
From the people in need
to the sun and the seas
We're in this together

Forever Together
Forever


We're in this together
Forever Together


8.Angel

Gotta find me an angel
To fly away with me
Gotta find me an angel
Who will set me free
My heart is without a home
I don't want to be alone
Gotta find me an angel
In my life

Too long have I loved
So unattached within
So much that I've known
That I need somebody so
Still I'll just go on
Hoping that I'll find me someone
Gotta find me an angel in my life


I know there must be someone,
someone for me
I've lived too long
without the love of someone
And there's no misery,
like the misery I feel in me
Gotta find me an angel in my life

She'll be there,
now don't you worry
Keep looking now just keep looking

She'll be there,
now don't you worry
Keep looking now just keep looking


9.night nurse

Tell her try her best just to make it quick
Woman tend to the sick
Because there must be something she can do
This heart is broken in two
Tell her it's a case of emergency
There's a patient by the name of Mickey

Night nurse
Only you alone can quench this here thirst
My night nurse, Oh God
Oh the pain is getting worse

I don't want to see no Doc
I need attendance from my nurse around the clock
Because there's no prescription for me
She's the one, the only remedy

My night nurse
Only you alone can quench this here thirst

My night nurse
Oh the pain is getting worse
I'm hurt my love

I don't want to see no Doc
I need attendance from my nurse around the clock
Because there no prescription for me
She's the one, the only remedy

Night nurse
Only you alone can quench this here thirst

My night nurse
Oh the pain is getting worse
I'm hurt my love
And I'm sure, no, no doctor got a cure

My night nurse
My night nurse
My night nurse


10.Say You Love Me

Being one of those grains of sand
I get blown all around the world
And what I make of it
Oh I don't know
What's the meaning of it
Oh I don't know
I've been around so many times
that the world's turning in my mind
What do I think of it
Oh it's so so
What more can you be
than the things they say you've been
Say you love me all around the world
Stay and hug me all around the world
Be yours a boy or be mine a girl
Just say you love me
Just say you love me
I never ever realised
It's so easy to make you cry
But did I break a bit
Oh I hope no
Have you forgot about it
Oh I hope so
But you never ever wonder why
In every single pair of eyes
There is a hunger in it
Or it's soul dies
What more can you be
than the things they say you've been
Say you love me all around the world
Stay and hug me all around the world
Be yours a boy or be mine a girl
Say you love me all around the world
Stay and hug me all around the world
Be yours a boy or be mine a girl
Just say you love me
Come on now darling, say you love me
Oh yeah, please please say you love me
Come on say you love me


11.the air that i breathe

If I could make a wish I think I'd pass
Can't think of anything I need
No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound
Nothing to eat no books to read
Making love with you,
has left me peaceful warm inside
What more could I ask
There's nothing left to be desired

Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe yes to love you
Just to have you now
All I need is the air that I breathe you're all I want

Peace came upon me and it breathes in me
Don't sleep silent angel don't you sleep

Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you
just to have you now
All I need is the air that I breathe yes to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe you're all I want

Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe yes to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe
all I want

Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe yes to love you


12.Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

Ev'ry time we say goodbye I die a little
Ev'ry time we say goodbye I wonder why a little
Why the Gods above me who must be in the know
Think so little of me they allow you to go
When you're near there's such an air of spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere waiting to sing about it
There's no love song finer
But how strange The change from major to minor
Ev'ry time we say goodbye.


When you're near there's such an air of spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere waiting to sing about it
There's no love song finer
But how strange The change from major to minor
Ev'ry time we say goodbye.


13.mellow my mind

Baby Mellow my Mind
Make me feel,
like a schoolboy on goodtime
Jugglin' nickels and dimes
Satisfied with the fish on the line

I've been down the road and I've come back
Lonesome whistle on the railroad track
Ain't got nothin' on those feelings that I had

Something so hard to find
A situation,
that could casualise your mind

I've been down the road and I've come back
Lonesome whistle on the railroad track
Ain't got nothin' on those feelings that I had

I've been down the road and I've come back
Lonesome whistle on the railroad track
Ain't got nothin' on those feelings that I had.

Baby mellow my mind
Make me feel,
like a schoolboy on good time
Jugglin' nickels and dimes
Satisfied with a fish on the line.


14.someday in my life

Here from the top of a mountain
I see you there
In the cool night air
Someday in my life

Fear has no reason to doubt them
They tell me so
Yet they will never know
You are here in my life

Wherever I go now
I'll follow you
And my heart will be true
I have never known someone
to stay right here
Soon you will be right here
Someday in my life

I see you there
In the cool night air
Someday in my life

Storms may rage on about them
They hail and snow
Yet they will never know
You are here in my life

Wherever I go now
I'll follow you
And my heart will be true
I have never known someone
To stay right here
Soon you will be right here
Someday in my life

Someday in my life

Someday in my life

Here from the top of a mountain


15.Heaven

Ev'ryone is trying to get to the bar
The name of the bar
The bar is called heaven
The band in heaven
They play my fav'rite song
They play it once again
They play it all night long

Heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens
There is a party,
everyone is there
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time

It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting,
could be so much fun

Heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens


When this kiss is over it will start again
It will not be any different,
it will be exactly the same
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting,
could be so much fun

Heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens

Heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens


16.Lady Godiva's Room

Before we go on the honeymoon is over

Just because I've never known your face
Don't look at me in the wrong way
To try and pick you out from all this space
The coldest room in the whole damn place

Lady Godiva's room
The only place she ever played in tune
Lady Godiva's room
The only place she ever played her bells in
Ah this is madness
This is insane gloom

Before we go on the honeymoon is over

When I asked I was beside myself
Thought that marriage would turn out well
In this holly and ivy age
The day we kissed on the mistletoe train
The love we have is still inside us
The dreams we had have left inside and died

Lady Godiva's room
The only place she ever played in tune
Lady Godiva's room
The only place she ever played her bells in
Ah this is madness
This is insane gloom

Before we go on the honeymoon is over
Simply Red-Lady Godivas Room
Before we go on the honeymoon is over


Lady Godiva the honeymoon is over


17.Money's Too Tight

I been laid off from work

My rent is due
My kids all need
Brand new shoes
So I went to the bank
To see what they could do
They said son - looks like bad luck
Got-a hold on you

Money's too tight to mention
I can't get an un-em-ploy-ment ex-ten-sion
Money's too tight to mention

I went to my brother
To see what he could do
He said bro-ther like to help you
But I'm unable to
So I called on my fa-ther fa-ther
Oh my fa-ther
He said

Money's too tight to mention
Oh mo-ney mo-ney mo-ney mon-ey
Mo-ney's too tight to mention

I can't even qual-i-fy for my pension

We talk a-bout rea-gan-on-ics
Oh lord down in the con-gress
They're passing all kinds - of bills
From down cap-it-ol hill
(we've tried them)
Money's too tight to mention
(spoken) cut-back!

Money's too tight to mention

Mo-ney mo-ney mo-ney mon-ey
We're talk-in' a-bout mon-ey mon-ey
We're talk-in' a-bout mon-ey mon-ey

We're talk-in' 'bout the dollar bill
From down cap-it-ol hill
Now what are we all to do
When the mon-ey's got a hold on you?
Mo-ney's too tight to mention
Oh mon-ey mon-ey mon-ey mon-ey
Mo-ney's too tight to mention
A-mero - mon-ey oh yeah
We're talk-in' a-bout mon-ey mon-ey


18.Fairground

Driving down an endless road
Taking friends or moving alone
Pleasure at the fairground on the way
It's always friends that feel so good
Let's make amends like all good men should
Pleasure at the fairground on the way

Walk around, be free and roam
There's always someone leaving alone
Pleasure at the fairground on the way

And I love the thought of coming home to you
Even if I know we can't make it
I love the thought of giving hope to you
Just a little ray of light shining through


Love can bend and breathe alone
Until the end it finds you a home
Don't care what the people may say
It's always friends that feel so good
Let's make amends like all good men should
Pleasure at the fairground on the way

And I love the thought of coming home to you
Even if I know we can't make it
I love the thought of giving hope to you
Just a little ray of light shining through

And I love the thought of coming home to you
Even if I know we can't make it
I love the thought of giving hope to you
Just a little ray of light shining through


Pleasure at the fairground on the way

And I love the thought of coming home to you
Even if I know we can't make it
I love the thought of giving hope to you
Just a little ray of light shining through

And I love the thought of coming home to you
Even if I know we can't make it
I love the thought of giving hope to you
Just a little ray of light shining through

And I love the thought of coming home to you
Even if I know we can't make it
I love the thought of giving hope to you


19.Something Got Me Started

Something got me started
You know that I will love you
Lately since we parted
I truly know that I need you
I'd give it all up for you
(Yes I would)

I'd give it all up for you
(Yes I would)

Totally broken-hearted
Guilty of what I did to you
Lately since we parted
I truly know that I need you
I'd give it all up for you
(Yes I would)
I'd give it all up for you
(Yes I would)


I'd give it all up for you
(Yes I would)


20.A New Flame

I was bowled out
I was sold down the river
And her warm heart
Would turn me forever
She's turned me round
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong


I am stern now
Petty words
Don't believe me
But her warm smile
Is never gonna leave me
She's turned me round
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong

Wrong oh no

She's made of real glass
She got real real emotion
But my heart laughs
I have that same
Sweet devotion
She's turned me round
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong

A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong

A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong
Wrong oh no

Nothing she can do
Can ever do me wrong

Album:A New Flame


Wrong oh no


21.Infidelity

When a man just can't be trusted


And again he's gone and lost it


Your call has been registered
It'll be returned when I get back home
I've been out loving all night long
I can't help it, that love it makes me strong
When a man just can't be trusted
And again he's gone and lost it

Ask me all the questions you need
I don't tell lies, my conscience don't bleed
You'll get all the time I can give
As long as you respect my freedom to live
When a man just can't be trusted
And again he's gone and lost it
I just can't be trusted

A kick in the ribs for the arrival late at night
So late in the evening you could see the morning light
When you're sat up alone and you wonder where I've been
You can pick up my belongings
and tell me where I can take them
When a man just can't be trusted
And again he's gone and lost it
When a man just can't be trusted
And again he's gone and lost it
I just can't be trusted


22.Your Mirror

I've got to stand up for myself
This society don't care about nobody else
I've got to be strong
Even if I know that this feeling is wrong
I've got to not care
Even if I know that this world
is meant to Share
Wait a minute. This is wrong
Even the birds still sing their faithful song
And your beauty lies within you

Look in the mirror baby


Look in the mirror baby


What you gonna do when your friends have
Gone away
And deserted you
You'll have to be strong
24 hours can seem so long
You're taught to not care
And then not realise this world
is meant to Share
Wait a minute. It's wrong

Even the birds still sing their faithful song
And your beauty lies within you
Look in the mirror baby

Look in the mirror baby

We've got to stand up for ourselves
Even if a leader so cold wants to glory himself
We've got to be strong
Even if our reasons seem wrong
We've got to not care
Even if the world that
we know may not even Be here
Hold it! It's wrong

Even the birds still sing their faithful song
And your beauty lies within you
Look in the mirror baby

Look in the mirror baby

Look in the mirror baby


23.Thrill Me

OK,
I'm the one who took you for granted

I've made my mistakes,
wake up let's not
Break up
Thrill me you've got a love so strong
Thrill me you really turn me on
Thrill me wait till tomorrow night
Thrill me I'm gonna treat you right


Album:Stars
You said that I would never let you be alone
How many times have you been on your own
Worked all the days to
find the things you try to do

If only my heart would never let you through
Because you

Thrill me you've got a love so strong
Thrill me you just can't do me wrong
Thrill me wait till tomorrow night
Thrill me I'm gonna treat you right


Thrill me
The truth is you've gone and left me on my own
How can I face the fact you're really gone
Love was a phase we'd have to
pray to make it true
If only my heart would've never let you through
Because you
Thrill me you've got a love so strong
Thrill me you really turn me on
Thrill me wait till tomorrow night
Thrill me I'm gonna treat you right


24.Remembering The First Time

Remembering the first time we made love
Remembering the first time we made love
I was just recalling
Sitting here glad as I am
With your photograph I hold it in my hands
Aching for a vision of you
You're right in front of me
Looking at the photograph
And the way you were looking at me
I was remembering the first time we made love
I was just recalling
Remembering the first time we made love
Do lu do do lu do
Remembering the first time we made love
I was just recalling
Remembering the first time we made love
Do lu do do lu do
Sitting here looking at the table, hm..
It's just like a photograph
There's you and me, fruit, drink, good food
Oh, the things we did, the things we did
From the shower we took to the very first look
Remembering the first time we made love
I was just recalling
Remembering the first time we made love
Do lu do do lu do
Remembering the first time we made love
I was just recalling
Remembering the first time we made love
Do lu do do lu do do lu do
Are you rich, you're beautiful, you're in love
How wonderful life can be
Just the way that you wanted it to be
I am the colour of the night
I am the colour of the night
Only make it right
If you could only make it right
Remembering the first time we made love
I was just recalling
Remembering the first time we made love
Do lu do do lu do
Remembering the first time we made love
I will never forget you girl
Remembering the first time we made love
Do lu do do lu do
Remembering the first time we made love
Love you, love you, love you girl
Remembering the first time we made love
Do lu do do lu do do lu do


25.to be free

To be free
Or to feel free
The first one is a myth

Yeah to be free
Or to feel free
The first one is a myth

For to be is to feel and to be real is to see

You want more
You say you want me
You got more
Did you get me
You hard core
You're hard on me
Bereft as the sunlight was falling upon me

To be free
or to feel free
The first one is a myth

To be free
or to feel free
The first one is a myth

To be is to feel and to be real is to see

To be free

To come is so organic unbelievable
A solitary sign to open up your mind
A love that's so organic unbelievable
Open up your mind
Open up your mind


Open up your mind
You got more
You hard core
Bereft as the sunlight was falling upon me


26.ghetto girl

Written:Dennis Brown

Stay at home, now
That little girl was born on the ghetto side of town
She knows every trick in the book and she certainly gets around
She's been with many men since she was only ten
She never stay at home, she's always on the town

Your mamma is wondering where you are
What do you see at night when you're under the stars

Stay at home
Sister stay at home
Don't let your mamma down
Don't be a run around

Stay at home
Sister stay at home
Don't let your mother down
Don't be a run around
Stay at home, now

That little girl was born on the ghetto side of town
She knows every trick in the book and she certainly gets around
She's been with many men since she was only ten
She never stay at home, she's always on the town

Your mamma is wondering where you are
What do you see at night when you're under the stars
Baby keep on running and you won't get far
You like to travel with all those movie stars
You like a hangin' in the big long shiny cars

Sister stay at home
Don't let your mamma down, no no no no
Produced by M


27.Ain't That A Lot Of Love

I know the desert can't hold all the love
that I feel in my heart for you
If I could spread it out across the sea,
I know my love would cork it up
Ain't that a lot of love
for one heart to hold
If the bees only knew how sweet you are baby
They would seal up their honeycomb
If the birds could hear how sweet your voice is
They would tighten up the song
Ain't that a lot of love
for one heart to hold
Your lips are so sweet,
honey you're my every need
You got a smile so rare
A love like yours I just can't compare
Ain't that a lot of love
for one heart to hold
Ain't that a lot of love
for one heart to hold


If the cook in the kitchen
had a touch as hot as yours
They wouldn't need a fire

I can't think of a word
that describes you better
Than the sight of her

Ain't that a lot of love
for one heart to hold

Ain't that a lot of love


Ain't that a lot of love
for one heart to hold


28.Jericho

Listen boy, I'll tell you a thing
I'll make you a career in the business I'm in
I'll make you rich, I'll make you a toy
I'll make you turn over into my little boy

Y'see I'm going somewhere
I don't know what I'm gonna do when I get there
I know money's a thing - your only inspiration
And your only meaning
You must think that all I do
Is spend my time making pretty pictures of you
You can fall when I will climb
But I'll be falling over
just by having you in my mind

Mend that fight - oh listen to them
Kickin' up a ball inside a jericho wall
Mend that fight - it's all twisted through them
If you ain't rich then you won't go to the ball


Having mercy and licking up love
And moving through your ocean like I've never had enough
Y'see you ain't all I want
You're everything and more that I have ever hoped for
You must think that all I do
Is spend my time making pretty pictures of you
You can fall when I will climb
But I'll be falling over
just by having you in my mind

Mend that fight - oh listen to them
Kickin' up a ball inside a jericho wall
Mend that fight - it's all twisted through them
I'm rich, you ain't, so you won't go to the ball

You won't go to the ball
You won't go to the ball
You won't go, you won't go
You won't go to the ball
You won't go, you won't go
You won't go to the ball


You must think that all I do
Is spend my time making pretty pictures of you
You can fall when I will climb
But I'll be falling over
just by having you in my mind

Mend that fight - oh listen to them
Kickin' up a ball outside a no. 10 wall
Mend that fight - it's all twisted through them
I'm rich, you ain't, so you won't go to the ball
No more!
You won't go to the ball
You won't go, you won't go
You won't go to the ball
You won't go to the ball
You won't go, you won't go
You won't go to the ball

Yeah, if you ain't got nothing
You'll never go there
Yeah, if you ain't got nothing
You'll never go there

I tried to make you see
I tell you I'd had enough
Money was a thing, money was a thing
Money was a thing that I believed in

I tried to make you see
I tell you I'd had enough
Money was a thing, money was a thing
Money was a thing that I believed in


Album:Picture Book


29.Thank You

I thank you for the things you have shown me
Thank you for the love of my life
So far anyway,
now it's really really over
O God I really thank you baby

Most of all I thank you for your love
Like good people should do anyway
I thank you

I really thank you

All of my life

I really thank you

My souvenirs I hold them and remember
All the days for the rest of my life
Truth is I miss you
in all the ways you will imagine
See me, feel me I wanna say
Most of all I thank you for your love
Like good people should do anyway

I thank you
I really thank you
All of my life
I really thank you


I thank you


I really thank you

All of my life

I really thank you

Yes I thank you

I really thank you

All of my life

I really thank you


30.Granma's Hands (Live)

Granma's hands clapped in church on Sunday morning
Granma's hands played the tambourine so well
Granma's hands used to issue out a warning

Michael don't you run so fast
Might fall on a piece of glass
Might be snakes there in that grass
Granma's hands


Granma's hands sooth the local unwed mother
Granma's hands used to ache sometimes and swell
Granma's hands used to lift her free and tell her

Baby Granma understands
That you really loved that man
Put yourself in the Spirits' hands
Granma's hands


Granma's hands used to hand me a piece of candy
Granma's hands picked me up each time I fell
Granma's hands, boy they really came in handy
Mattie don't you whip that boy
What you want to spank him for?
He didn't drop no apple core
But I don't have Granma any more
If I get to heaven I'll look for
Granma


If I ever get up there
If I ever go down there
I'll be wandering around
I'll be looking for her
I'll be looking up a north a south a west
and east and everywhere I go
Baby Granma
Those eyes, those hands, those smiles
Those warm little looks I get from her...


31.Holding Back the Years (12' Original Extended Version)

Holding back the years
Thinking of the fear I've had so long
When somebody hears
Listen to the fear that's gone

Strangled by the wishes of pater
Hoping for the arms of mater
Get to me the sooner or later

Simply Red-Holding Back the Years
(12' Original Extended Version)
Holding back the years
Chance for me to escape from all I've known
Holding back the tears
Cause nothing here has grown

I've wasted all my tears
Wasted all those years
And nothing had the chance to be good
Nothing ever could yeah

I'll keep holding on

So tight


I've wasted all my tears
Wasted all of those years
And nothing had the chance to be good
Cause nothing ever could oh yeah

I'll keep holding on

Holding, holding, holding

That's all I have today
It's all I have to say
That's all I have today
It's all I have to say


32.Love for Sale (Live)

When the only sound in the empty street
Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet
That belong to a lonesome cop
I open shop

When the moon so long
has been gazing down
On the wayward ways of this wayward town
That her smile becomes a smirk
I go to work

Love for sale

Appetising young love for sale
Love that's fresh and still unspoiled
Love that's only slightly soiled
Love for sale

Who will buy
Who's prepared to sample my supply
Who would like to pay the price
For a trip to Paradise
Love for sale


Let the poets pipe of love
In their childish way
I know every type of love
Better far than they

If you want the thrill of love
I've been through the mill of love
Old love, new love
Every love but true love
Love for sale

Appetising young love for sale
If you want to buy my wares
Follow me and climb the stairs
Love for sale


Love for sale
Appetising young love for sale
If you want to buy my wares

Follow me and climb the stairs
Love for sale


33.The Right Thing (12' Original Extended Version)

In the middle of the night,
when the time is right
Sexily right, I'm gonna do the right thing
Gonna move you slow,
much harder though
Sexily so, I'm gonna do the right thing

Feelin' hot,
I ain't never gonna stop
To get what you got,
you better take what I bring
Feel it now,
much harder now
More than any old how,
say you feel the pain

Feel I'm getting harder now,
get off your back four
Get on top more owww!
Feel I'm sinking farther down,
get off your back four
Get on top more

I told you to stop,
You're sleeping out a lot
You told me get lost,
where's your understanding
I feel it now
much harder than I've ever done now
I'd better do the right thing
oh I I'm gonna do the right thing

Simply Red-The Right Thing
(12' Original Extended Version)
Album:The Very Best of

Feel I'm getting harder now,
get off your back four
Get on top more owww!
Feel I'm sinking farther down,
get off your back four
Get on top more

In the middle of the night,
when the time is right
Sexily right, I'm gonna do the right thing
Gonna move you slow,
much harder than I've ever done now
I'm gonna do the right thing

I'm gonna do the right thing

oh I I'm gonna do the right thing

I'm on fire

You know I told you that
I would never dream of leaving

If I did it right
You know I told you that
I would never dream of leaving
If I did it right

I'm gonna do the right thing


34.Come to My Aid (12' Original Extended Version)

Come to my aid,
you're sweet as everything
Come to my aid,
I'd give you anything
I feel so betrayed by a people I love
Come to my aid,
it's you I'm thinking of

Prouder than wild,
sad enough to sing
Come to my aid
and care for social living

Why are we liable to die for survival
Why is our nation divided?
Come to my aid (repeat)

In the poverty stakes see just what it means
When welfare decimates you'd better care
About your fellow people

Why are we liable to die for survival
Why is our nation divided?
Come to my aid (repeat)


35.Come on in My Kitchen

The woman I love
took to my best friend
Some joker got lucky
took her back again

You'd better come on in my kitchen
Babe it's goin' to be raining outdoors

She's gone
I know she won't come back
I've taken the last nickel
out of her station sack

You'd better come on in my kitchen
Babe it's goin' to be raining outdoors

When a woman gets in trouble
everybody throws her down
Look for her good friend
none can be found

You'd better come on in my kitchen
Babe it's goin' to be raining outdoors