So You Win Again

Album

Every 1's a Winner

Label

Rak Records

Genre

Disco

Duration

4:21

Composer(s)

Russ Ballard

Entered Chart

Jul 16, 1977

Peak Date

Sep 10, 1977

Released

June 1977

Recorded

1977

Catalog #

Big Tree 16096

B-Side

A Part Of Being With You

This Russ Ballard song about how someone can have control over you, no matter what, was Hot Chocolate's only UK #1. Frontman Errol Brown told the Mail On Sunday January 25, 2009: "This song was played to me by Mickie Most, our producer, with a soft rock feel. I wasn't that sure about it, but Mickie was confident it would be our first #1. We made it more soulful and recognizably Hot Chocolate." Russ Ballard explained in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh that he had written this song, "like a show tune and I played it to Maurice Oberstein, the head of CBS and I told him I that I had a great song and I wanted to do it as a single. Maurice heard it and said, 'No, you must give it to a black band.' Mickie Most recorded it straight away with Hot Chocolate. I didn't like their version at the time, it seemed too slow and too English for me, but I got used to it. I wanted it more like Boz Scaggs, but Mickie was right and I was wrong."

Just to admit one mistake
That can be hard to take
I know we've made them fall
But only fools come back for more
Being the fool I am
I figured in all your plans, darling
Your perfumed letters didn't say
That you'd be leaving any day

[Chorus]
So you win again, you win again
Here I stand again, the loser
And just for fun you took my love and run,
But love had just begun

I can't refuse her
But now I know that I'm the fool
Who won your love to lose it all
When you come back, you win again

And I'm not proud to say
I let love slip away
Now I'm the one who's crying
I'm a fool there's no denying

When will my heartache end?
Will my whole life depend on fading memories
You took the game this time with ease

[Chorus: x 2]