Raoul and the Kings of Spain
Tears for Fears
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Raoul and the Kings of Spain
05 : 15
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Falling Down
04 : 55
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Secrets
04 : 41
4
God’s Mistake
03 : 47
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Sketches of Pain
04 : 20
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Los reyes Católicos
01 : 44
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Sorry
04 : 48
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Humdrum and Humble
04 : 10
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I Choose You
03 : 25
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Don’t Drink the Water
04 : 51
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Me and My Big Ideas
04 : 32
12
Los reyes Católicos (reprise)
03 : 43
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Track Lyrics
Secrets Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
I won't keep secrets alive
I'll send them all out to space
Without the will to survive
They won't be going no place
Oh, my angel
Woman, child
[Verse 2]
I used to think the time would come
When man would rise above the beast
I gave up thinking that way long ago
In conversation with a priest
[Chorus]
I won't keep secrets alive
I'll send them all out to space
Without the will to survive
They won't be going no place
Oh, my angel
Woman, child
[Bridge]
We could heal this blindness
With some human kindness
I know secrets kill you
But my love can fill you
Time and time again
Time and time again
It would be so fine
If you could be mine
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
I won't keep secrets alive
I'll send them all out to space
Without the will to survive
They won't be going no place
Oh, my angel
Woman, child
Sketches of Pain Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Great wide stretches of canvas signed by a godless name
Strange bright colours of madness only a fool would frame
Sketches of pain
Sketches of pain
Sketches of pain
[Verse 2]
Some cry shame, some cry shame
We tore them apart, we failed to imagine
God might claim, God might claim
The works of art we failed to imagine
[Chorus]
Great wide stretches of canvas signed by a godless name
Strange bright colours of madness only a fool would frame
Sketches of pain
Sketches of pain
Sketches of pain
[Interlude]
[Outro]
Sketches of pain
Sketches of pain
Sketches of pain
Sorry Lyrics
[Verse 1]
What's the matter with your life?
Did someone come and shoot your wife just as you planned?
Will you live or will you die?
Are you that butterfly that never lands?
[Pre-Chorus]
Set aside these vacant rules
Break them now and don't get fooled again
[Chorus]
Sorry
How many times must I say
Life is not a cake to separate?
What do I have to do
To save you from worry?
Cut off my nose to spite my face
[Verse 2]
When you look into these eyes
Do you see civilised or son of Sam?
Will you love or do you hate?
Why do you hesitate, yeah?
[Chorus]
Sorry
How many times must I say
Life is not a cake to separate?
What do I have to do
To save you from worry?
Cut off my nose to spite my face
Cut off my nose to spite my face
[Bridge]
Time is an arrow, you are the bow
Shoot it now to seal your own fate
Get a life, get a love, get a new big idea
I got a new big idea
[Verse 3]
What's the matter with your life?
Did someone come and shoot your wife just as you planned?
Will you live or will you die?
Are you that butterfly?
[Chorus]
Sorry
How many times must I say
Life is not a cake to separate?
What do I have to do
To save you from worry?
Cut off my nose to spite my face
Cut off my nose to spite my face
Cut off my nose to spite my face
Cut off my nose to spite my face
Cut off my nose to spite my face
Cut off my nose to spite my face
Cut off my nose to spite my face
Cut off my nose to spite my face
Cut, spite, face
Cut
Cut
Humdrum and Humble Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Mistress of the mind
Take me where the air is clean
Ignorance is kind
Emerald and evergreen
[Pre-Chorus 1]
30 days, September
Year of miracle and grief
Through the haze, remember
You're an animal, not a mineral
[Chorus]
And we won the war, lost the battle
Lost the war, won the battle
Won the war, lost the battle
Lost the war
All for the love of the humdrum and humble
Colour for the colourblind
All for the love of the humdrum and humble
[Verse 2]
Through the human eye
Nature of a soul, extreme
Nothing seems to die
Pictures in the magazine
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Through the maze, precisely
Through the myriad of schemes
With your gaze, entice me
Like an animal, not a mineral
[Chorus]
And we won the war, lost the battle
Lost the battle, won the war
Won the war, lost the battle
Lost the war
All for the love of the humdrum and humble
Colour for the colourblind
All for the love of the humdrum and humble
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Through the maze, precisely
Through the myriad of schemes
(Singing in the rain)
With your gaze, entice me
Like an animal, not a mineral
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
Won the war, lost the battle
Lost the war, won the battle
Won the war, lost the battle
Won the war
All for the love of the humdrum and humble
Colour for the colourblind
All for the love of the humdrum and humble
Rubbishing the philistines
All for the love of the humdrum and humble
I Choose You Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I knew all this was coming
Ain't that odd?
Some things come out of nothing
As with God
Not my intention to amuse
Or confuse
[Verse 2]
I've been down to the kitchen
Played my part
Mapped out all contradictions
Of the heart
Then someone came and stole my shoes
A situation I tried to defuse
[Verse 3]
Long way back, clouds were forming
If by choice
Some things come as a warning
Hear their voice
I wish that I could change its hue
Paint it blue
But when I think what I could lose
All other options disappear from view
[Outro]
When I choose
I choose you
I choose you
Me and My Big Ideas Lyrics
[Chorus 1: Roland Orzabal]
Me and my big ideas
Won't wash away your tears
No one else seems to mind
That I'm not that kind
[Chorus 2: Roland Orzabal]
Go get a volunteer
We'll pay him well, my dear
He will see inside your mind
Because he is that kind
[Verse 1: Roland Orzabal]
It's a southern kind of heat
The shadows crack and start to creep
Conversation drags its feet
I wish we'd both been more discreet
Like light that is caught between night and day
You're stuck between me and my
[Chorus 3: Oleta Adams]
Me and my big ideas
Won't wash away your tears
So many strings to your bow
Why not let one go?
[Verse 2: Roland Orzabal & Oleta Adams]
Well they love you when you're weak
Bet they hate to see this winning streak
It's that thing we call control
There's a deep frustration in their soul
Black thoughts that get stuck between someone's ears
Like me and my big ideas
[Chorus 4: Roland Orzabal]
So many strings to your bow
Why not let one go?
[Bridge: Roland Orzabal & Oleta Adams, Oleta Adams and Roland Orzabal]
In a way this dream is over
Blown away our four leaf clover
There's no reason why
There's just me and my
[Chorus 1: Roland Orzabal]
Me and my big ideas
Won't wash away your tears
No one else seems to mind
That I'm not that kind
[Outro: Oleta Adams]
Blown away
Blown away