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‘Home’ is the eighth studio album by Simply Red, released in 2003. This album marked a significant moment for the band, as it was the first to be independently produced and released through Mick Hucknall’s own label, Simplyred.com. Stylistically, ‘Home’ blends the band’s signature soulful pop sound with elements of jazz, R&B, and electronic music, offering a modern yet familiar vibe.

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1. Home SINGLE

What’s worth nothing else but love
Take a walk down any street now
Every one of us in our own little world
Looking for a heart with whom to beat now

What’s worth nothing else but love
I’m prepared to take the heat now
What’s worth more than anything else at all
To keep you firmly on your feet now

So fake cool image should be over
‘Cause I long for a feeling of home
Real life, depicted in song
A loving memory
After long, home is a place where I yearn to belong

Where the land meets the sea
She’ll be smiling so sweetly now
I hope that she’ll be here much longer than I will
My heart loves her with every beat now

So fake cool image should be over
‘Cause I long for a feeling of home
Real life, depicted in song
A loving memory
After long, home is a place where I yearn to belong

Fake cool image should be over
‘Cause I long for a feeling of home
Real life, depicted in song
A loving memory
After long, home is a place where I yearn to belong

Fake cool image should be over
Home is a place where I yearn to belong

Fake cool image should be over

I’m going home
Where I belong

Fake cool image should be over
Rolling home

Fake cool image should be over

Words Mick Hucknall
Music Mick Hucknall, Steve Lewinson & Pete Lewinson
EMI Songs Ltd/19 Songs/BMG Music Publishing Ltd

2. Fake SINGLE

Watching love drifting away
And I feel like I’m someone else
The hurting is rough
Long are the days
And you have hurt me enough

Your mother she knows…
That something is wrong with ya babe
How wondering grows…
As u drift away here’s what I say

I read a book
And it’s your face
It’s your face now…Fake
Still my love for you was no mistake
I will always love you
Fake…

Hoping for love
Day after day
And it’s always someone else
The hurting is rough
Long are the days
And you have hurt me enough

You’re burning your hair
On your cigarette, oh baby
You’re turning your nose up
At the clothes your girlfriend wears
Shoot I don’t care

I read a book
And it’s your face
It’s your face now…Fake

Still my love for you was no mistake…obvious baby
Fake…

I read a book
And it’s your face…reading you baby
Fake…
Still my love for you was no mistake
I will always love you

…I will always love you

Your mother she knows
That something is wrong with ya babe
How wondering grows
As u drift away
Shoot I don’t care

I read a book
And it’s your face…oh no
Fake…
Still my love for you was no mistake…it’s obvious baby
Fake…

I read a book
And it’s your face…reading you baby
Fake…
Still my love for you was no mistake…
I will always love you…
You’re out of place…

Words Mick Hucknall
Music Mick Hucknall, Mark Jaimes, Gota Yashiki, Ian Kirkham, Steve Lewinson, Dee Johnson, John Johnson, Kenji Suzuki, Sarah Brown, Chris de Margary & Kevin Robinson
EMI Songs Ltd/19 Songs/BMG Music Publishing Ltd/Strong Songs/Copyright Control

3. Sunrise SINGLE

As I look into your eyes I see the sunrise
The light behind your face helps me realize

Will we sleep and sometimes love until the moon shines
Maybe the next time I’ll be yours and maybe you’ll be mine
I don’t know if it’s even in your mind at all
It could be me
At this moment in time
Is it in your mind at all
It should be me, it could be me
Forever

Wandering through life will love come home to you
And the love you want forever, will they be true to you

Will we sleep and sometimes love until the moon shines
Maybe the next time I’ll be yours and maybe you’ll be mine

I don’t know if it’s even in your mind at all
It could be me
At this moment in time
Love’s indescribable
It should be me, it could be me
Forever

Easy, ready, willing, over time
Where does it stop where do you dare me to draw the line
You’ve got the body now you want my soul
Don’t even think about it say no go

Words & Music Mick Hucknall, Daryl Hall, John Oates & Sara Allen
EMI Songs Ltd/Unichappell Music Inc/HotCha Music Co/Fust Buzza Music/Geomantic Music/Irving Music Inc

4. You Make Me Feel Brand New SINGLE

My love
I’ll never find the words, my love
To tell you how I feel, my love
Mere words could not explain
Precious love
You held my life within your hands
Created everything I am
Taught me how to live again

Only you
Cared when I needed a friend
Believed in me through thick and thin
This song is for you
Filled with gratitude and love

God bless you
You make me feel brand new
For God blessed me with you
You make me feel brand new
I sing this song ’cause you
Make me feel brand new
My love
Whenever I was insecure
You built me up and made me sure
You gave my pride back to me
Precious friend
With you I’ll always have a friend
You’re someone who I can depend
To walk a path that never ends

Without you
My life has no meaning or rhyme
Like notes to a song out of time
How can I repay
You for having faith in me

Words & music Thom Bell & Linda Creed
Mighty Three Music/Carlin

5. Home loan blues

Just a man, good and sometimes bad
But striving to do the best that I can
Help a hand when the one close by you falls
Understanding can do the rest and that ain’t all

Hope I can please you but the truth isn’t easy to say
The more that you’re spending the more it’ll get in your way
I say it to please you to forget what you have done, so pray
I got the blues from the debt of the people today

You can have it all but you’ve got to pay
You can have it all don’t pay me today

Wotcha man as the bills around you grow
Providing you take a loan to pay for them all
Help a hand when the one close by you falls
Depending if the fool keeps spending it all

You can have it all but you’ve got to pay
(You can have it)
Credit cards, mortgage, home loans for your holiday

Words Mick Hucknall
Music Mick Hucknall, Mark Jaimes, Gota Yashiki, Steve Lewinson, Ian Kirkham & Kenji Suzuki
EMI Songs Ltd/19 Songs/BMG Music Publishing Ltd/Strong Songs/Copyright Control

6. Positively 4th street

You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning

You got a lotta nerve
To say you gotta helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that’s winning

You say I let you down
You know it’s not like that
If you’re so hurt
Why then don’t you show it

You say you lost your faith
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You’re in with

Do you take me for such a fool
To think I’d make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don’t know to begin with

You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say, “How are you?” “Good luck”
But you don’t mean it

When you know as well as me
You’d rather see me paralyzed
Why don’t you just come out once
And scream it

No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I’d rob them

And now I know you’re dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don’t you understand
It’s not my problem

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you

Words & music Bob Dylan
Sony Music Entertainment Inc

7. Lost Weekend

(Sunshine in my soul)
(Sunshine in my soul)

My lost weekend
Been more now than a year
Oh I hoped not
‘Cause since you put me down
My world merely spins around
Did you play me for your fool?
Oh honey, I know you didn’t mean to

‘Cause you tremble with a problem
You carry the weight of pain from the past

The sunshine in my soul is here to tell you
That pain doesn’t have to last
The love that’s in my heart is here to pray
That pain will go away
Feel it honey
Blowin’ away

My lost weekend
More now than a year
Oh and it goes on
‘Cause since you let me down
My world merely spins around
Did you play me for your fool
Oh honey I know you didn’t mean to

‘Cause you’re pent up with a problem
You carry the weight of pain from the past

The sunshine in my soul is here to tell you
That pain doesn’t have to last
The love that’s in my heart is here to say
That pain will go away

The sunshine in my soul is here to tell you
That pain doesn’t have to last no, no
The love that’s in my heart is here to pray
That pain will go away

Watch that pain go away

Feel it honey
Blowin’ away

My lost weekend

Words & music Mick Hucknall
EMI Songs Ltd

8. Money in my pocket

Money in my pocket but I just can’t get no love
Money in my pocket but I just can’t get no love
I’m praying for
A girl to be my own

Soon you said she coming but I don’t believe a word she say
Cause she run away and left me one rainy day
She made me had in mind
That her love would never die
And now I’m alone, so alone
So alone, yeah, yeah

Money in my pocket but I just can’t get no love
Money in my pocket but I just can’t get no love
The love I had in mind
Was very, very hard to find

It’s hard for a man to live without a woman
And a woman needs a man to cling to
You’ll see what love can do
After making me feel blue
Ain’t that a shame, whoa baby
Ain’t that a shame
To make me feel blue

I’ve got money in my pocket

Words & music Joe Gibbs & Dennis Brown
Carlin Music Corp/Ashanti Music Ltd/Basement Music Ltd
Used by permission

9. Something for you

Anyone would cry over you
Too bad if they do
But baby I could try if you want me to
To help you let yourself go

Any man would die for you
But they’re mad if they do
But baby let me get closer to you
So I can let you know
I got something for you
The joy of letting you know what you have done for me

Loving you has smiled on the face of a lonely man
Loving you has pride in the place of our home again

Smile on the face of a lonely man
Pride in the place of our home again

Smile on the face
Pride in the place

When I get tired I’m gonna try
Let you wonder why
Any man would die

Words Mick Hucknall
Music Mick Hucknall and Joe Sample
EMI Songs Ltd/Blue Ballet Music Administered by Chrysalis Music (BMI)

10. It's you

Loving you just goes on
On and on, on and on
And on

Growing with you
Is pleasure for two
Raising my spirits
Hoping for you
And I do

And being with you
I see a side of my life
A chance to grow
In a way that I never knew
‘Cause baby it’s you
Honey, it’s you

Find a movie where there’s no one
On and on, just having fun
On our own

22 different shows on
Don’t care which one
Just as long as we’re having fun
On and on and on

‘Cause being with you
I see a change in my life
A chance to grow
In a way that I never knew

‘Cause baby it’s you
You you you, you you you, it’s you
Honey it’s you
Baby It’s you
You you you, you you you, you you you
Honey it’s you

Words & music Mick Hucknall
EMI Songs Ltd

11. Home (reprise)

Fake cool image should be over
‘Cause I long for a feeling of home
Real life, depicted in song
A loving memory
After long, home is a place where I yearn to belong

Words & music Mick Hucknall
EMI Songs Ltd

Album Credits

Released: March 2003

CD – SRA001CD

Cassette – SRA001MC

Released: November 2003

Limited Edition – SRA001CDX with bonus DVD (PAL format)

Musicians: Andy Wright, Anthea Clarke, Arthur Adams, Bernie Worrell, Chris de Margary, Danny Saxon, Dave Clayton, Dean Parks, Dee Johnson, Freddie Washington, Gota Yashiki, Ian Kirkham, James Gadson, Joe Sample, John Johnson, Karl Vanden Bossche, Kenji Suzuki, Kevin Robinson, Larry Williams, Lennie Castro, London Session Orchestra, Mark Jaimes, Mick Hucknall, Miles Bould, Paul ‘Harry’ Harris, Pete Lewinson, Sarah Brown & Steve Lewinson.

Worldwide representation: Andy Dodd & Ian Grenfell at Silentway Management Ltd, assisted by Andrea Mills. In association with Lisa Barbaris at So What Media & Management Inc, New York.

Art direction & design by Peacock www.peacockdesign.com. All photography by Rick Guest except band photograph by Andy Earle, pages 4 & 5 photography by Gusto/Hugh Turvey.

11 February 2003 14 February 2003
London, UK : Ronnie Scott’s
Simply Red played 4 gigs at Ronnie Scott’s in London (before invited guests and competition winners only) to promote the forthcoming album HOME. This was the first time they’d performed there since 1985.

22 February 2003
Manchester, UK : Academy
This was a small gig for radio station competition winners.

27 February 2003
London : Shepherd’s Bush Empire
This show was a charity concert and all the money raised from it was for Comic Relief.

22 April 2003
Plymouth, UK : Pavilions

23 April 2003
Bournemouth, UK : International Centre

25 April 2003
Cardiff, UK : International Arena

26 April 2003
Nottingham, UK : Arena

27 April 2003
Manchester, UK : Evening News Arena

29 April 2003
Braehead, UK : Braehead Arena

30 April 2003
Newcastle, UK : Telewest Arena

01 May 2003
Birmingham, UK : NEC

03 May 2003
Sheffield, UK : Hallam FM Arena

04 May 2003
Brighton, UK : Brighton Centre

05 May 2003
London, UK : Wembley Arena

11 May 2003
Rotterdam, Holland : Ahoy

12 May 2003
Berlin, Germany : Max Schmeling Halle

13 May 2003
Hamburg, Germany : Stadtpark

15 May 2003
Oberhausen, Germany : Arena

16 May 2003
Goslar, Germany : Kaiserpfalz Square

18 May 2003
Stuttgart, Germany : Congresscentrum B

19 May 2003
Frankfurt, Germany : Jahrhundertalle

20 May 2003
Zurich, Switzerland : Hallenstation

23 May 2003
Vienna, Austria : Stadhalle

25 May 2003
Milan, Italy : Piazza Del Duomo

26 May 2003
Munich, Germany : Olympiahalle

28 May 2003
Amsterdam, Holland : Heineken Music Halle

29 May 2003
Brussels, Belgium : Forest National

01 June 2003
Cardiff, UK : International Arena
Box Live show with various artists.

04 June 2003
Paris, France : Man Ray Restaurant/Bar
This was a small gig for invited guests and competition winners only.

15 June 2003
Milton Keynes, UK : Milton Keynes Bowl
Summer XS show with various artists.

21 June 2003
Paris, France : Place de la Republique

01 July 2003
Piazzola sul Brenta (Padova), Italy : Piazzale Camerini/Villa Contarini

02 July 2003
Bolzano, Italy : Palazzetto dello Sport Palasport

04 July 2003
Istanbul, Turkey : Istanbul Jazz Festival

05 July 2003
Civitavecchia, Italy : La Marina
(Porto di Civitavecchia)

06 July 2003
London, UK : Capital Radio Party in the Park

08 July 2003
Pula, Croatia : Arena

09 July 2003
Ljubljana, Slovenia : Halle Tivoli

11 July 2003
Aviero, Portugal : Festival Dunas de S. Jacinto

14 July 2003
Worms, Germany : Kaiserdom

15 July 2003
Montreux, Switzerland : Stravinski Hall

16 July 2003
Lucca, Italy : Piazza Napoloeone

18 July 2003
London, UK : Hyde Park
This show was cancelled by the promoter.

20 July 2003
Lorrach, Germany : Lorrach Festival

22 July 2003
Taranto, Italy : Arena Portuale

23 July 2003
Taormina, Sicily : Teatro Antico di Taormina

27 July 2003
Brockenhurst, UK : Beaulieu Abbey

28 July 2003
Liverpool, UK : Liverpool Docks

31 July 2003
Nr Norwich, UK : Blickling Hall

02 August 2003
Maidstone, UK : Leeds Castle

03 August 2003
Nr Norwich, UK : Blickling Hall

06 August 2003
Amneville (Metz), France : Galaxy

07 August 2003
Bonn, Germany : Museum Platz

09 August 2003
Arhuus, Denmark : Skanderborg Festival

10 September 2003
Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Dubai Airport Expo – West Hall

13 September 2003
Cape Town, South Africa : Bellville Velodrome

15 September 2003
Port Elizabeth, South Africa : U.P.E. Sports Arena

18 September 2003
Durban, South Africa : Westridge Park Tennis Stadium

20 September 2003
Johannesburg, South Africa : The Dome @ Northgate

24 September 2003
Sao Paulo, Brazil : Credit Card Hall

25 September 2003
Brasilia, Brazil : Brasilia Music Festival

27 September 2003
Porto Alegre, Brazil : Porto Alegre Festival

02 October 2003
Mexico City, Mexico : National Auditorium

05 October 2003
Saratoga, CA, USA : Mountain Winery

24 October 2003
Manchester, UK : Evening News Arena

25 October 2003
Newcastle, UK : Telewest Arena

26 October 2003
Edinburgh, UK : Playhouse

28 October 2003
Nottingham, UK : Arena

29 October 2003
Cardiff, UK : International Arena

30 October 2003
Brighton, UK : Brighton Centre

01 November 2003
Sheffield, UK : Hallam FM Arena

02 November 2003
Birmingham, UK : NEC

04 November 2003
Bournemouth, UK : International Arena

05 November 2003
Plymouth, UK : Pavilions

06 November 2003
London, UK : Wembley Arena

09 November 2003
Belfast, Northern Ireland : Odyssey Arena

10 November 2003
Dublin, Eire : The Point Theatre

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