So Beautiful

Album: Life (1995)
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Songfacts®:

  • This soft song is about a man trapped in a marriage with a beautiful but pretentious and exasperating woman who bores him to distraction. If you read the lyrics closely, it sounds as if he murders her at the end. >>
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    Mike - Santa Barbara, CA

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  • Edwina from Chicago, IlSimple Red has a great voice...always have good a band with him...this man was born to sing...
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