See The Lights

Album: Real Life (1991)
Charted: 20 40
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Songfacts®:

  • The Real Life album marked a return to the sound that Simple Minds made popular with the 1985 LP Once Upon A Time, but musical tastes had changed by then, so this didn't make as much of an impact. The song seems to be about missing someone and a depression that accompanies it, longing to bring back the love that is dying. >>>
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    Mike - Santa Barbara, CA

Comments: 2

  • JamesThis song spent two weeks in the #1 position on Billboard's alternative chart in May, 1991.
  • Mark from Jefferson City, MoFavorite song by this group. Nice guitar solo.
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