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
Its a sad affair
When theres no one there
He calls out in the night
And its so unfair
At least it seems that way
When you gave him his life
And all this time hes been getting you down
You ought to pick him up when theres no one around
And convince him
Just talk to him
Cos he knows in his heart you wont be home soon
Hes an only child in an only room
And hes dependant on you
And it seems so strange
That at the end of the day
Making love can be so good
But the pain of birth
What is it worth
When it dont turn out the way it should