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Quiet Ones Tears for Fears 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 wild It’s your life Don’t just collide with the...

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Me And My Big Ideas Tears for Fears Me and my big ideas Won’t wash away your tears No one else seems to mind That I’m not that kind Go get a volunteer We’ll pay him well my dear He will see inside your mind...

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Don’t Drink The Water Tears for Fears This is a religion No, this is a drag That man over there is smoking sweet cigarettes Hey look at that fag I had a dream I saw you swim Sink to your grave Down to Davy Jone’s...

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Humdrum And Humble Tears for Fears Mistress of the mind Take me where the air is clean Ignorance is kind Emerald and evergreen 30 days September, year of miracle and grief Through the haze, remember You’re an animal, not a mineral And we won the...

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Sketches Of Pain Tears for Fears Daylight saved Daylight saved To spite the dark In spite of the darkness There I’ll crave There I’ll crave To get to the heart In spite of the darkness Great wide stretches of canvas Signed by a godless name...

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Raoul and the kings of Spain Tears for Fears When the seventh son of the seventh son Comes along and breaks the chain Raoul, Raoul, Raoul and the kings of Spain Making it plain, making it sane To turn this loss into a gain Raoul,...

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Goodnight Song Tears for Fears Here on the stage, the time has come with the strings of ‘be my angel’, of rockin’ 2/4 Time may keep alive That old swan song That we’ve been playing forever, ’til the time may be right to say ‘good-bye’…...

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Swords And Knives Tears for Fears A waking world of innocence So grave those first born cries When life begins with needles and pins It ends with Swords and Knives Oh dangerman, oh dangerman Your blade fits like a glove When forged in steel Time...

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Secrets Tears for Fears It seems we caused a forest fire With just a flicker of a flame And now I set alight to everything Now all I do is cause you pain I won’t keep secrets alive I’ll send them all out to space...

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Standing On The Corner Of The Third World Tears for Fears Man, I never slept so hard I never dreamt so well Dreaming, I was safe in life Like mussels in a shells Rolling and controlling all the basements and the back roads of our...

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Falling Down Tears for Fears Is this world spinning round Has this ship run around What’s that shape What’s that sound That’s just me falling down Some of us are free Some are bound Some will swim Some will drown Some of us are saints...

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Badman’s Song Tears for Fears Heard every word that was said that night When the light of the world put the world to right Well here’s to the boys back in 628 Where an ear to the wall was a twist of fate I will...

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Advice For The Young At Heart Tears for Fears Advice for the young at heart Soon we will be older When we gonna make it work ? Too many people living in a secret world While they play mothers and fathers We play little boys...

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The Working Hour Tears for Fears These things That I’ve Been told Can rearrange My world My doubt In time But inside out This is the working hour We are paid by those who learn by our mistake This day And age For all And...

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God’s Mistake Tears for Fears Have a friend, calls me up Says hello, and then hangs up He must have read my mind These are the days of a different paradigm Maybe once, even twice He said “God does not play dice” Yet if he’s...

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Start Of The Breakdown Tears for Fears Scratch the ice Let the telephone ring Sense of time is a powerful thing And we love to laugh Love to cry Half alive We love to Go slow when we’re dancing for rain Dry skin flakes where...

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I Believe Tears for Fears 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 it absurb ? Or am I...

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Memories Fade Tears for Fears There’s only need I love your need So much I’m losing me I cannot see the reason for the Pain With hungry joy I’ll be your toy Just hoping you will play Without hope my body starts to fail Memories...

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The Hurting Tears for Fears Is it a horrific dream Am I sinking fast Could a person be so mean As to laugh and laugh On my own Could you ease my load Could you see my Pain Could you please explain The Hurting Could...

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Watch Me Bleed Tears for Fears 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 How come everyone can touch me You...

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Woman in Chains Tears for Fears You better love loving and you better behave You better love loving and you better behave Woman in chains, woman in chains Calls her man the great white hope Says she’s fine, she’ll always cope, ooh Woman in chains,...

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Broken Tears for Fears Between the searching and the need to work it out I stop believing everything will be alright Broken We are broken I’m walking uphill being turned around and round Secret in motion when my feet are on the ground Broken We...

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Los Reyes Catolicos Tears for Fears When time is like a needle And night is the longest day A place where a king can pray Ghosts all gone Ghosts all gone Ghosts all gone To another plain Los reyes catolicos Los reyes catolicos Los reyes...

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Suffer The Children Tears for Fears 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 And all this time he’s been getting you...

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Sowing The Seeds of Love Tears for Fears High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man And the lovetrain rides from coast to coast D.J.’s the man we love the most Could you be, could you be squeaky...

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Break It Down Again Tears for Fears Here We Go Break it down again So those are my dreams And these are my eyes Stand tall like a man Head strong like a horse When it’s all mixed up Better break it down In the...

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Ideas As Opiates Tears for Fears Say what you want Say what you will ‘Cos I find you think what makes it easier And lies spread on lies We don’t care Belief is our relief We don’t care Live Performance at Rockpalast in 1983

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The Prisoner Tears for Fears Here behind the wall I feel so small Breathing but not perceiving Here anger is me Love sets me free Feeling and not believing Here in my mind Biding my time Waiting but not relating Here anger is me Love...

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Change Tears for Fears You walked in to the room I just had to laugh The face you wore was cool You were a photograph When it’s all too late It’s all too late I did not have the time I did not have the...

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Secret World Tears for Fears This is a garden, this is a steeple I hear the crowd before I ever see the people Yours for the making, and for the taking There is a power in the vacuum we are making You and I have...

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Who Killed Tangerine Tears for Fears Whatcha gonna choose the poison or the knife Lived with crazy pain all your life Something in your mind just tells you no Hoping conversation starts to flow Stuck inside a wheel, inside a wheel Wondering everyday is it...

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Call Me Mellow Tears for Fears Fill the sky with love Fill the sky with love I wouldn’t mind but she just turned up on the doorstep Wistful and ashen slightly bedraggled Last time I saw her she was howling at the moon Roaming the...

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Closest Thing To Heaven Tears for Fears 28 days of rain Flash floods in February Back in our boats again Bath water and the baby What am I gonna do? There’s been a lot of drinking Looking at ghosts of you While all the world...

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Everybody Loves A Happy Ending Tears for Fears Toe the line Toe the line Wake up your time is nearly over No more the supernova And no action guaranteed Wake up you’ve had an operation Ideals above your station Too much reality Think about the...

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The Way You Are Tears for Fears Going far, Getting nowhere Going far, The way you are Going far, Getting nowhere Going far, The way you are Going far, Getting nowhere The way you are Going far, Getting nowhere The way you are These fingers...

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Ashes To Ashes Tears for Fears Do you remember a guy that’s been In such an early song I’ve heard a rumour from Ground Control Oh no, don’t say it’s true They got a message from the Action Man Oh happy, hope you’re happy too...

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Tears Roll Down Tears for Fears Into that void of silence Where we cry without sound Where Tears Roll Down Where Tears Roll Down And where your mother’s violence Sent your soul underground Where Tears Roll Down Where Tears Roll Down

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Deja Vu And The Sins Of Science Tears for Fears Deja Vu Deja vu I must learn to protect myself I’m not a man of violence I must learn to protect myself From the sins of science People came and broke the law Broke the...

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When In Love With A Blind Man Tears for Fears When in love with a blind man You watch what you say And you watch yourself burn With dreams of escaping Make love to the man who shapes your behaviour When in love with a...

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Head Over Heels Tears for Fears I wanted to be with you alone and talk about the weather But traditions I can trace against the child in your face Won’t escape my attention You keep your distance with a system of touch and gentle persuasion...

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Mad World Tears for Fears All around me are familiar faces Worn out places Worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere Going nowhere Their tears are filling up their glasses No expression No expression Hide my head I want to...

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Mothers Talk Tears for Fears My features form with a change in the weather We can We can work it out My features form with a change in the weather We can We can work it out When the wind blows When the mothers talk...

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Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears Welcome to your life There’s no turning back Even while we sleep We will find you acting on your best behavior Turn your back on Mother Nature Everybody wants to rule the world. It’s my own...

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Shout Tears for Fears Shout, shout,let it all out, these are the things I can do without Come on, I’m talking to you, come on Shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I can do without Come on, I’m talking to you,...

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Year Of The Knife Tears for Fears 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 Came from the heart of the man...

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Famous Last Words Tears for Fears After the wash Before the fire I will decay Melt in your arms As the day hits the night We will sit by candlelight We will laugh We will sing When the saints go marching in A for a...

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Elemental Tears for Fears This race is already run Get off your horse, get on this train ” Welcome to the real world ” I said ” Welcome to the real world ” Are we rushing like the wind ? Naked out and naked in...

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Cold Tears for Fears 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 me on the television underneath the sun Thought that I...

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