 Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 – 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 – 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 (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 – 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 – I Choose You
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Several songs on Raoul and the Kings of Spain address the difficulties Roland Orzabal was having in his relationship at the time. “I Choose You” is one of the most direct of these
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Taylor Swift – my tears ricochet
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Swift shared via Instagram that “my tears ricochet” is about an “embittered tormentor showing up at the funeral of his fallen object of obsession.” She revealed in a YouTube
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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 – Until I Drown
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[Verse 1] / Took a long time to mend / Took a long time to make amends / Funny how the story goes / Strip a man bare and burn his clothes / [Chorus 1] / Time is all I crave / It
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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 – 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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