The Hurting
Tears for Fears
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The Hurting
04 : 19
2
Mad World
03 : 35
3
Pale Shelter
04 : 34
4
Ideas as Opiates
03 : 45
5
Memories Fade
05 : 06
6
Suffer the Children
03 : 52
7
Watch Me Bleed
04 : 17
8
Change
04 : 14
9
The Prisoner
02 : 55
10
Start of the Breakdown
05 : 00
11
Pale Shelter (long version)
07 : 09
12
The Way You Are (extended)
07 : 43
13
Mad World (World remix)
03 : 42
14
Change (extended version)
06 : 00
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Track Lyrics
Ideas as Opiates Lyrics
[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 easier
And I find you think what makes it easier
[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 easier
And I find you think what makes it easier
[Post-Chorus]
And lies spread on lies
We don't care
Belief is our relief
We don't care
[Chorus]
Cause I find you think what makes it easier
And I find you think what makes it easier
[Post-Chorus]
And lies spread on lies
We don't care
Belief is our relief
We don't care
Memories Fade Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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 the hope my body starts to fail
[Chorus 1]
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Goodbye, my friend
Will I ever love again?
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Woah, woah
[Verse 2]
I cannot grow, I cannot move
I cannot feel my age
The vice-like grip of tension holds me fast
Engulfed by you, what can I do
When history's my cage?
Look forward to a future in the past
[Chorus 1]
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Goodbye, my friend
Will I ever love again?
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Woah, woah
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
The more I talk, the more I say
The less you seem to hear
I'm speechless in a most peculiar way
Your mind is weak, your need is great
And nothing is too dear
For you to use to take the pain away
[Chorus 2]
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Goodbye my friend
Will I ever love again?
Memories fade
When I die, pretend you can justify the end
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Woah, woah, still linger
Still linger, woah
Watch Me Bleed Lyrics
[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
How come everyone can touch me
You see the torture on my brow
Relates to neither here nor now
[Chorus 1]
Watch me bleed, bleed forever
Watch me bleed, bleed forever
Although my face is straight, it lies
My body feels the pain and cries
[Verse 2]
Here the table is not bare
I am full but feeling empty
For all the warmth it feels so cold
For one so young I feel so old
[Chorus 2]
Watch me bleed, bleed forever
Watch me bleed, bleed forever
It's not allowed to be unkind
But still the hate lives in my mind
[Bridge]
I'll make no noise, I'll hide my pain
I'll close my eyes, I won't complain
I'll lie right back and take the blame
And try to tell myself I'm living
And when it's all been said or done
Where do I go? Where do I run?
What's left of me or anyone
When we've denied the hurting?
[Interlude]
[Bridge - Shortened]
And when it's all been said or done
Where do I go? Where do I run?
What's left of me or anyone
When we've denied the hurting?
[Chorus 3]
Watch me bleed, bleed forever
Watch me bleed, bleed forever
And all the deeds of yesterday
Have really helped to pave my way
[Chorus 3]
Watch me bleed, bleed forever
Watch me bleed, bleed forever
And all the deeds of yesterday
Have really helped to pave my way
The Prisoner Lyrics
[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 believing
[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 believing
Pale Shelter (long version) Lyrics
[Verse 1: Curt Smith]
How can I be sure
When your intrusion's my illusion?
How can I be sure
When all the time you change my mind?
I ask for more and more
How can I be sure?
[Chorus: Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal]
When you don't give me love
You give me pale shelter
You don't give me love
You give me cold hands
And I can't operate on this failure when all I wanna be is
Completely in command
[Verse 2: Curt Smith]
How can I be sure?
For all you say you keep me waiting
How can I be sure
When all you do is see me through?
I ask for more and more
How can I be sure?
[Chorus: Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal]
When you don't give me love
You give me pale shelter
You don't give me love
You give me cold hands
And I can't operate on this failure when all I wanna be is
Completely in command
[Verse 3: Curt Smith]
I've been here before
There is no why, no need to try
I thought you had it all
I'm calling you, I'm calling you
I ask for more and more (I ask for more and more)
How can I be sure? (How can I be sure?)
[Chorus: Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal]
When you don't give me love
You give me pale shelter
You don't give me love
You give me cold hands
And I can't operate on this failure when all I wanna be is
Completely in command (Completely in command)
[Outro: Curt Smith]
You don't give me love, you don't give me love
You don't give me love, you don't give me love
You don't give me love, you don't give me love
The Way You Are (extended) Lyrics
[Chorus: Curt Smith, Roland Orzabal]
Going far, getting nowhere
Going far the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere
Going far the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere
To tomorrow, to tomorrow
The way you are
To tomorrow, climb the ladder
Going far, getting nowhere
To tomorrow, to tomorrow
The way you are
To tomorrow, climb the ladder
[Verse 1: Curt Smith]
These fingers aren't my fingers
These hands are not my hands
No one sees and no one cares
What gets broken
Not for rhyme and not for reason
What gets broken
What gets broken
[Chorus: Curt Smith, Roland Orzabal]
Going far, getting nowhere
Going far the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere
Going far the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere
To tomorrow, to tomorrow
The way you are
To tomorrow, climb the ladder
Going far, getting nowhere
To tomorrow, to tomorrow
The way you are
To tomorrow, climb the ladder
[Verse 2: Curt Smith]
And the rhythm of machinery
Slows to a heartbeat
Echoing ghost tunes made by those who
Whistle while they work
Out of time and out of season
What gets broken
[Chorus: Curt Smith, Roland Orzabal]
Going far, getting nowhere
Going far the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere
Going far the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere
To tomorrow, to tomorrow
The way you are
To tomorrow, climb the ladder
Going far, getting nowhere
To tomorrow, to tomorrow
The way you are
To tomorrow, climb the ladder
[Post-Chorus: Curt Smith, Roland Orzabal]
The way you are
Climb the ladder
The way you, way you are
Climb the ladder, climb the ladder
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Curt Smith, Roland Orzabal]
Going far, getting nowhere
Going far the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere
Going far the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere
To tomorrow, to tomorrow
The way you are
To tomorrow, climb the ladder
Going far, getting nowhere
To tomorrow, to tomorrow
The way you are
To tomorrow, climb the ladder
[Post-Chorus: Curt Smith, Roland Orzabal]
The way you are
Climb the ladder
The way you are
Climb the ladder
The way you are
Climb the ladder
The way you, way you are
Climb the ladder, climb the ladder
Change (extended version) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
You walked in to the room
I just had to laugh
The face you wore was cool
You were a photograph
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Verse 2]
I did not have the time
I did not have the nerve
To ask you how you feel
Is this what you deserve?
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
[Verse 3]
And something on your mind
Became a point of view
I lost your honesty
You lost the life in you
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Verse 4]
We walk and talk in time
I walk and talk in two
Where does the end of me
Become the start of you?
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
[Bridge]
What has happened to
The friend that I once knew?
Has he gone away?
[Interlude]
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
Change
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change