Tears for Fears, named after a chapter found in Arthur Janov's book History of Headaches, are a British pop/ rockoutfit formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabaland Curt Smith, two school friends and ex-members of Graduate. Initially associated with new waveand the new romanticmovements, the duo's earliest work (through 1983's The Hurting) was explicitly based around the confusion and angst of adolescence - though top forty regulars on both sides of the Atlantic, Orzabal and Smith made their major international breakthrough with Songs From the Big Chairin 1985, which included their most commercially popular material to date (scoring two Billboard Hot 100 #1s and a UK #2). They released three albums - the synthesizer-based (1983), (1985) (which broke free from the new-wave mold) and the jazz/ blues/ The Beatlesinfluenced (1989) - before Orzabal and Smith had an extremely acrimonious falling out. The split of the duo was ultimately blamed on Orzabal's intricate but frustrating approach to production and Smith's distaste for the pop music world. The two spent the 1990s working separately.
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Tears For Fears
Do you remember a guy thats been
In such an early song
Ive heard a rumour from ground control
Oh no, dont say its true
They got a message from the action man
Oh happy, hope youre happy too
Ive loved all Ive needed love
Sordid details following
The shrieking of nothing is killing
Just pictures of jap girls in synthesis and
I aint got no money and I aint got no hair
And Id quit but the planet its glowing
Ashes to ashes, fun to funky
We know major toms a junkie
Strung out in heavens high
Hitting an all-time low
Time and again I tell myself
Ill stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no, not again
Im stuck with a valuable friend
Oh happy, hope youre happy too
One flash of light but no smoking pistol
Ive never done good things
Ive never done bad things
Ive never done anything out of the blue, woh-o-oh
I want an axe to break the ice
I wanna come down right now
Ashes to ashes, fun to funky
We know major toms a junkie
Strung out in heavens high
Hitting an all-time low
My mama said to get things done
Youd better not mess with major tom
My mama said to get things done
Youd better not mess with major tom
My mama said to get things done
Youd better not mess with major tom
My mama said to get things done
Youd better not mess with major tom