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)