The Love Language in Hikaru Utada’s “Simple and Clean”

This 2002 ballad still gives my heart those pitter-patter feelings.

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When you walk away
You don’t hear me say please
Oh baby, don’t go
Simple and clean is the way that you’re making me feel tonight
It’s hard to let it go

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