Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Week Sixty-One: Tears For Fears - "Mad World" - Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82-92)

For Week Sixty-One, I am going to tell you about the three songs on my Tears For Fears VHS tape pictured below, and then I will select one or two other tunes by them to close out the week:



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I feel a bit lazy today... probably because tomorrow is a holiday. So, anyway, I will share with you another treasure that I picked up along the way called The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80s Music, compiled and edited by Colin Larkin, and I will let him tell you about Tears For Fears and today's song, "Mad World"...





And I suppose while I'm at it, I'll also throw in what George Gimarc had to say in Post Punk Diary 1980-1982...




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 drown my sorrow 
No tomorrow 
No tomorrow 
And I find it kind of funny 
I find it kind of sad 
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had 
I find it hard to tell you 
'Cos I find it hard to take 
When people run in circles it's a very very 
Mad world 
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world 
Children waiting for the day they feel good 
Happy birthday 
Happy birthday 
Made to feel the way that every child should 
Sit and listen 
Sit and listen 
Went to school and I was very nervous 
No one knew me 
No one knew me 
Now the teacher tell me what's my lesson 
Look right through me 
Look right through me 
And I find it kind of funny 
I find it kind of sad 
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had 
I find it hard to tell you 
'Cos I find it hard to take 
When people run in circles it's a very very 
Mad world 
Mad world 
Mad World
Mad world
And I find it kind of funny 
I find it kind of sad 
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had 
I find it hard to tell you 
'Cos I find it hard to take 
When people run in circles it's a very very 
Mad world 
Mad world 
Halogeon world
Mad world








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