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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 – 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 – 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 (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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Sorry
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Raoul and the Kings of Spain is a personal, essentially-solo, album for Roland Orzabal, and he has said he wrote it during a period of difficulty in his relationship with his wife
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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 – Memories Fade
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The fifth track from Tears for Fears critically acclaimed debut album The Hurting.
This song was sampled in both production and lyrics by Kanye West in his song “Coldest Winter
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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 – Elemental
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[Intro] / This race is already run / Get off your horse, get on this train / Hey-a, hey-a, oh / Welcome to the real world / I said, welcome to the real world / Are we rushing like
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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 – 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 – My Demons
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[Verse 1] / I am the demolition man / I am the smoking gun / Why is my name in lights when my name is spelt wrong? / Only needs an attitude / A longitude and latitude / They will
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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 – 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 – 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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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 – My Girls
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There isn't much that I feel I need / A solid soul and the blood I bleed / I don't mean to seem like I / Care about material things / Like a social status / I just want / Four
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Tears for Fears – Empire Building
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[Vocal Sample] / "It was a conspiracy, it was a consultation" / [Interlude] / [Vocal Sample] / "Everything is wonderful down in South Africa" / [Interlude] / [Vocal Sample] / "
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 – 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 (Ft. Oleta Adams) – Bad Man’s Song
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The idea for this song was sparked when Roland Orzabal overheard members of his touring band talking badly about him in the ‘party room’ of a hotel they were in during ‘The Hurting
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Rivers of Mercy
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[Intro] / Well, the streets have started burning / There's trouble in the towns / Guess the devil loves his playground, that's for sure / I too often see the world through a veil
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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 – 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 – 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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