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Simply Red – Hillside Avenue (1995) | Track profile | Dork

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Hillside Avenue

Release date: 24th October 1995

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About This Track

"Hillside Avenue" is a track by Simply Red, from the album Life, released 24th October 1995. Full lyrics are available below.

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Simply Red

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Lyrics

Hillside Avenue

[Chorus]

Hillside Avenue, Jamaica Avenue

Hillside Avenue, Jamaica Avenue

Was the sign I saw when I suddenly thought

Was the sign I saw when I suddenly thought

Your health is your life

Why why why was I thinking that

Who's gonna pay when the children start crying

You'll never never get away

Strange how the air that you're breathing is dying

It's gonna get rough, when I get to...

[Chorus]

Hillside Avenue, Jamaica Avenue

Hillside Avenue, Jamaica Avenue

Was the sign I saw when I suddenly thought

Was the sign I saw when I suddenly thought

Your health is your life

Keeps you alive

Why why why was I thinking that

Why why why was I thinking that

When the rich man lies dying in his bed

He'll be thinking of the very words I said

When he's lying there dying in his bed

He'll be thinking of the very words I said

Repeat!

Hillside Avenue, Jamaica Avenue

Was the sign I saw when I suddenly thought

Your health is your life

Keeps you alive

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1995

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