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Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
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Tears For Fears' biggest chart hit, peaking at #2 in their home country of Britain and topping the charts in the US, Canada and New Zealand. Although a massive hit, Rule The World
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Tears for Fears – Head Over Heels / Broken
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The shimmering, cascading “Head Over Heels” is a romantic love song that “gets a bit perverse” according to Roland Orzabal, as it tackles on the fears and anxieties involved in a
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Tears for Fears – Let It All Evolve
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[Verse 1] / Figure in the landscape running from the law / Heading up the pathway to the burning cross / The skin of a leper with a scythe in hand / Just another runaway in the
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Tears for Fears – The Way You Are
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“The Way You Are” was the first Tears for Fears song that songwriter Roland Orzabal wrote after the release of the band’s hugely successful debut album, The Hurting. As the band
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Tears for Fears – Mad World
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“Mad World” is the second song on Tears for Fears' 1983 debut album, The Hurting. The song reached no. 3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982, and was the band’s first
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Tears for Fears – Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
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[Intro] / Toe the line / Toe the line / [Verse 1] / Wake up, your time is nearly over / No more the supernova / And no action guaranteed / Wake up, you've had an operation / Ideals
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Tears for Fears – Pale Shelter
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“Pale Shelter” was Tears for Fears' second single release, and was eventually the third song on their 1983 album The Hurting. The song was one of two demo songs that landed Tears
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Tears for Fears – Secret Location
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All I want and all I need's / A little time, a little peace / A break from stepping on the broken glass / Little heavens, little hells / The aftershock of cheap hotels / A love
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Tears for Fears – Shame (Cry Heaven)
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(Shame) / (Shame) / (Shame) / (Shame) / What kind of promise is unbreakable? / What kind of passion is hard to resist? / What kind of man turns his back on the real and the
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Tears for Fears – Broken
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[Interlude] / [Verse 1] / Between the searching and the need to work it out / I stop believing everything will be alright / Broken, we are broken / [Verse 2] / I'm walking uphill
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Tears for Fears – Creep (Live)
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[Verse 1] / When you were here before / Couldn't look you in the eye / You're just like an angel / Your skin makes me cry / You float like a feather / In a beautiful world / You're
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Tears for Fears – I Believe
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[Verse 1] / I believe that when the hurting and the pain has gone / We will be strong, oh, yes we will be strong / And I believe that if I’m crying while I write these words / Is
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Tears for Fears – Shout
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“Shout” was released as a single in 1984 and is the first song on Tears for Fears' second album, Songs from the Big Chair. It was no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks in
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Tears for Fears – Change
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“Change” by British duo Tears For Fears was written by Roland Orzabal (guitar/vocals) and featured Curt Smith (bass/vocals) on lead vocals.
Their fourth single release, it would
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Tears for Fears – Sowing the Seeds of Love
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[Verse 1: Roland Orzabal] / High time we made a stand / And shook up the views of the common man / And the love train rides from coast to coast / D.J.'s the man we love the most
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Tears for Fears – Pharaohs
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[Sample] / "There are warnings of gales in Viking, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Fisher, Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth, Finisterre, Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Shannon, Rockall, Malin
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Tears for Fears – Mothers Talk
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[Chorus] / My features form with a change in the weather / Weekend / We can work it out / My features form with a change in the weather / Weekend / We can work it out / When the
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Tears for Fears – Sea Song
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[Verse 1] / You look different every time / You come from the foam - crested brine / It's your skin shining softly in the moonlight / Partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby
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Tears for Fears – Cold
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[Verse 1] / The coldest shoulder cast in metal / Frozen to the bone / To rely on hook, line and sinker / What a sinker, sinking like a stone / You'd be better off alone / She saw
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Tears for Fears – Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
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[Intro: Roland Orzabal] / I can't guarantee that / I can't guarantee that / I can't guarantee that / [Interlude: Roland Orzabal & Nicky Holland] / Johnny Panic / Johnny Panic and
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Tears for Fears – No Small Thing
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[Verse 1] / Get your sweets from the candy man / Get your truth from the shelf / Don't buy into the fairy tale / Just be good to yourself / 'Cause you know that I love you, girl
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Tears for Fears – Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)
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[Verse 1] / Chewed the bone down too low / Got fed on tea and sympathy / Blew the sail like the wind / I wish you were my enemy / I was humble for you / What a fool I've been to
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Tears for Fears – Ideas as Opiates
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[Verse] / Say what you want / Say what you want / Say what you will / Say what you want / Say what you want / Say what you will / [Chorus] / Cause I find you think what makes it
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Tears for Fears – Secret World
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[Verse] / This is a garden, this is a steeple / I hear the crowd before I ever see the people / Yours for the asking, and for the taking / There is a power in the vacuum we are
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Tears for Fears – The Hurting
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[Verse 1: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith] / Is it an horrific dream? / Am I sinking fast? / Could a person be so mean / As to laugh and laugh / [Pre-Chorus 1: Roland Orzabal and
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Tears for Fears – Suffer the Children
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[Verse 1: Roland Orzabal] / It's a sad affair / When there's no one there / He calls out in the night / And it's so unfair / At least it seems that way / When you gave him his life
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Tears for Fears – Famous Last Words
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‘Famous Last Words’ is a story on two levels, both literally and metaphorically, about two lovers enjoying their last moments together in the face of a bomb and apocalyptic blaze.
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Tears for Fears – The Working Hour
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Tears For Fears were touring for The Hurting when Manny Elias came up with a drum pattern. He suggested it to Roland, who took some chords from keyboardist Ian Stanley and wrote
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Tears for Fears – Year of the Knife
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[Verse 1] / Hallelujah, the king is dead / He said, "Love was the knife" / And now he'll dream / Some magic queen might try and save his life / They say his famous final words
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Tears for Fears – God's Mistake
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For “God’s Mistake,” songwriter Roland Orzabal was inspired by the Einstein quote, “God does not play dice with the universe.”
Orzabal has said that while he was working on the
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Tears for Fears – Rhythm of Life (Demo)
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Climbin' every mountain, always killing time / Count the cost as days go by / Monday I've got Friday on my mind / Why don't we make love / Instead of making plans / Mother Nature
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Tears for Fears – Goodnight Song
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[Verse 1] / Here on the stage, the time has come / With the strains of "Be my Angel", of rock in two four / Time may keep alive that old swan song / That we've been playing forever
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Tears for Fears – Secrets
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Songwriter Roland Orzabal has said that Raoul and the Kings of Spain was written during a difficult time in his relationship. “Secrets” is one of the songs on the album that most
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Tears for Fears – Advice for the Young at Heart
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A song about love while young, this is the third single from Tears For Fears' 1989 album “The Seeds of Love”.
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Tears for Fears – New Star
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[Verse 1] / Baby, your deal is surreal / Just like lightning, streaking on / Heaven still is a state of mind / Where did we go wrong? / What happened to those old convictions
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Tears for Fears – Watch Me Bleed
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[Verse 1] / Heaven comes to he who waits / But I know I'm getting nowhere / And all the deeds of yesterday / Have really helped to pave my way / Though there's no one near me now
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Tears for Fears – Raoul and the Kings of Spain
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Roland Orzabal explores the theme of family on the Raoul and the Kings of Spain album, a very personal album, written after, and in response to, the birth of Orzabal’s first son:
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