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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Q Lazzarus – Tears of Fears - Demo Version
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[Verse 1:] / Tears of Fear when you are near / Sounds and voices, you leave me no choices / Love and fondness seems not to matter / Drunk with whiskey strikes us yes it's guilt / [
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Maureen Ji & Universal Symphonies – Tears & Fears
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[Verse 1] / [Bettina Maureenji] / When I’m closing my eyes / I can see fields of joy / Rainbows, winged ones, the sea / When I’m closing my eyes / I can see fields of joy
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Tears for Fears – Who You Are
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[Verse 1] / Someone's drinking all alone / Someone's left the TV on / I don't suppose, no I don't suppose / Someone's sleeping in my bed / Someone's let the genie in / I don't
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Tears for Fears – The Prisoner
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[Intro] / "Prisoner!" / [Interlude] / [Verse] / Here behind the wall / I feel so small / Breathing but not perceiving / Here anger is me / Love sets me free / Feeling and not
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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 – 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 – Break It Down Again
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[Intro] / (Here we go) / Break it down again / [Verse 1] / So those are my dreams / And these are my eyes / Stand tall like a man / Headstrong like a horse / [Pre-Chorus] / When it
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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 (Ft. Oleta Adams) – Woman in Chains
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When “Woman in Chains” was first released, songwriter Roland Orzabal claimed in interviews that he was inspired by the Jungian concept of the animus and the anima, masculine and
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Tears for Fears – Break The Man
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“Break the Man” is the fourth track of TFF’s high-anticipated seventh album The Tipping Point.
The song mainly deals with sexism and inequalities between men and women in modern
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Tears for Fears – Power
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[Verse 1] / Last year's rivals share their blood / Sailor sworn to secrecy / Ride the waves and stem the flood / The tides of endless enmity / Power now is all the rage / Sons 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 – 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 – Master Plan
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[Verse 1] / Yesterday / All the lights were shining on the love we made / Out of sight was out of mind, a dream away / Lost between the Beatles and the Stones / You got me now (You
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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 – End of Night
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[Verse 1] / Mistral came along just like a hurricane / Blew down all the walls and gave me life again / Turned the world around / Blinded me with sound / (And there's no other way
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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 – 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 – Stay
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[Verse 1] / Speak, don't speak / Go, don't go / Damned if I do, damned if I know / Wait, don't linger / Way down slow / Stay for the open hand / Or let it all go / [Pre-Chorus
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Tears for Fears – The Tipping Point
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[Intro] / You know that I can't love you more / You know that I can't love you more / [Verse 1] / Silver tongue, they'll soon be gone / When the sunlight hits the room / Lay down
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Tears for Fears – Quiet Ones
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It's always the quiet ones / Who are stranger than fiction / They hide under tables like a child / What kind of chemistry is it? / Leaden or golden? / Nobody sees them driving us
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Tears for Fears – Standing on the Corner of the Third World
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[Verse 1: Roland Orzabal] / Man, I never slept so hard / I never dreamt so well / Dreaming I was safe in life / Like mussels in a shell / Rolling and controlling / All the
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Tears for Fears – Dog's a Best Friend's Dog
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[Verse] / Shame, dog shame / I know what's wrong / Man's too old and wise / Bring in the dog, turn on / Down the mountain rescue / Slip and slide when sunny / Small cat better move
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Tears for Fears – Please Be Happy
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[Verse 1] / Please be happy / 'Cause you know I cannot bear to see you / In this state of melancholy / Curled up in your chair / [Verse 2] / Please don't worry / 'Cause the world
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Tears for Fears – The Devil
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The devil, take me now / Before I'm ushered out / 'Cause you are like me / But I can bleed / And I can die / But I can't hide / From you / Prisoners of course / Taken by force / To
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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 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 – Falling Down
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[Chorus 1] / Is this world spinning round? / Has this ship run aground? / What's that shape, what's that sound? / That's just me falling down / Some of us are free, some are bound
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Tears for Fears – Ladybird
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Tell me a story of mind over matter / The hope and glory of life ever after / The sound and the fury the cloak and the dagger / Days when we sink like a stone / Porcelain portraits
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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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