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

Single Release Information

WEA
Released: Octo­ber 1989
YZ424 7″
1. You’ve Got It
2. Hold­ing Back The Years (live)
YZ424C cassette
1. You’ve Got It
2. Hold­ing Back The Years (live)
YZ424TE 10″
1. You’ve Got It
2. Hold­ing Back The Years (live)
3. I Know You Got Soul (live)
4. I Wish (live)
YZ424T 12″
1. You’ve Got It
2. I Wish (live)
3. Hold­ing Back The Years (live)
YZ424CD
1. You’ve Got It
2. I Wish (live)
3. Hold­ing Back The Years (live)

Cred­its

Words Mick Hucknall
Music Mick Huck­nall & Lamont Dozier
So What Ltd/SBK Songs Ltd/Warner Chap­pell Music Ltd

Oth­er Info

This track was a single in Octo­ber 1989 and is on the A New Flame album (1989) as well as the com­pil­a­tion albums Simply Red Greatest Hits (1996), It’s Only Love (2000) and The Greatest Hits 25 (2008)