Simple Minds had their last American hit with what Jim Kerr calls "a broken love song". By that time the band had been distilled to the songwriting team of childhood pals Kerr and Charlie Burchill. It became a modest Top 40 hit in the United States; but reached number one on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart.
"On ['Street Fighting Years'] we were involved in the big picture, the big battles, apartheid, Belfast, poll tax, and all these things, and there's something convenient when you concentrate on the big picture - by contrast, your own fears and battles and hardships seem small and pathetic, even self-indulgent...I didn't want to come to terms with a lot of things - and the big picture was something you could wilfully escape into. So this record is like a return to my realities - a return to real life - it felt I was coming back from the workfront with these songs to confront my own fears and hopes and nightmares and a sense of loss, though on a smaller, more private and personal scale."
Summer's gone winter's in your eyes
I can feel the thunder storms inside
I wake every morning and the cold winds cover me
All I've got's a ghost of what could be
If you can see the lights shine in front of me
If you can see the lights shout out where you'll be
I'm in a broken cream I stare out into space
You know I called you up cos nothing takes your place
I've got a heart of stone and it's sinking deep inside
I want to tell you love I'm too proud to cry
If you can see the lights shine in front of me
If you can see the lights shout out where you'll be
Summer's gone and I can't tell you lies
Oh forgive me love I'm too proud to cry
If you can see the lights shine in front of me
If you can see the lights shout out where you'll be
Summer's gone and I can't tell you lies
Forgive me love I'm too proud to cry
Too proud to cry
Too proud to cry
Too proud to cry
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