Biography:
Tears for Fears, named after a phrase found in Arthur Janov's book Prisoners of Pain, is a British pop/rock outfit formed in 1981 in Bath, England. Founder members Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith had been friends since their early teens and had already been in the shortlived ska band Graduate. Initially associated with the new wave and synthesiser bands of the early 1980s, Tears For Fears' earlier work, as evidenced on their 1983 debut album The Hurting , was explicitly based around the emotional angst of adolescence.
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- Everybody Wants To Rule The World
- Mad World
- Sowing The Seeds Of Love
- Advice For The Young At Heart
- Bad Mans Song
- Bloodletting Go
- Break It Down Again
- Call Me Mellow
- Change
- Closest Thing To Heaven
- Cold
- Elemental
- Fish Out Of Water
- Goodnight Song
- Head Over Heels
- I Believe
- I Love You But Im Lost
- Ladybird
- Laid So Low
- Memories Fade
- Pale Shelter
- Secret World
- Shout
- Sketches Of Pain Acoustic
- Suffer The Children
- Swords And Knives
- The Devil
- The Hurting
- The Working Hour
- Watch Me Bleed
- When In Love
- Who Killed Tangerine
- Woman In Chains
- Women In Chains
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Closest Thing to Heaven by Tears for Fears
Verse 1:
Em2
Twenty eight days of rain, Flash floods in February,
C
Back in our boats again, Bath water and the baby.
Em2
What am I gonna do ? There's been a lot of drinking,
C
Looking at ghosts of you, While all the world is sinking.
G A C
Ten thousand miles into the atmosphere,
G A C
My body shakes, Is there a welcome here ?
Refrain :
Em(2) - Em(2) C(5)
Closest thing to heaven
C(5) Em(2)
How do you do it ?
Em(2) C(5) Am(7)
Closest thing to heaven, heaven.
Verse 2 (Repeat Verse 1 Chords) :
Throw you arms round the world, Make love your destination,
Here we go boys and girls, Act like a generation,
Give me that ball and chain, By now it must be hurting
Dragging your feet again,Just like a beast of burden.
When one and one and one and one make two
I know I'm high because I've captured you, yeah
Refrain :
Closest thing to heaven
Yeah, it's you
Closest thing to heaven, heaven
Bridge:
F2 G
Look the world right in the eye
F2 G
Eat the countries that are making billions
F2 G
Sweet as homemade apple pie
A C(5)
Saved by crumbs for all the starving millions, yeah
Closest thing to heaven
Refrain (ad lib) :
C - Em(2) - Em(2) C
Closest thing to heaven
How do you do it?
Closest thing to heaven
Hey!
Closest thing to heaven
Chords: Em(022000) Em2(022002) A(x02220) Am (x02210)
C (x32010) G(320003) G7(320000) F7(xx3210)
C5(x32013) Am7(x02213) F2(xx3213) A7(x02223)
Verse 1:
Em2
Twenty eight days of rain, Flash floods in February,
C
Back in our boats again, Bath water and the baby.
Em2
What am I gonna do ? There's been a lot of drinking,
C
Looking at ghosts of you, While all the world is sinking.
G A C
Ten thousand miles into the atmosphere,
G A C
My body shakes, Is there a welcome here ?
Refrain :
Em(2) - Em(2) C(5)
Closest thing to heaven
C(5) Em(2)
How do you do it ?
Em(2) C(5) Am(7)
Closest thing to heaven, heaven.
Verse 2 (Repeat Verse 1 Chords) :
Throw you arms round the world, Make love your destination,
Here we go boys and girls, Act like a generation,
Give me that ball and chain, By now it must be hurting
Dragging your feet again,Just like a beast of burden.
When one and one and one and one make two
I know I'm high because I've captured you, yeah
Refrain :
Closest thing to heaven
Yeah, it's you
Closest thing to heaven, heaven
Bridge:
F2 G
Look the world right in the eye
F2 G
Eat the countries that are making billions
F2 G
Sweet as homemade apple pie
A C(5)
Saved by crumbs for all the starving millions, yeah
Closest thing to heaven
Refrain (ad lib) :
C - Em(2) - Em(2) C
Closest thing to heaven
How do you do it?
Closest thing to heaven
Hey!
Closest thing to heaven
Chords: Em(022000) Em2(022002) A(x02220) Am (x02210)
C (x32010) G(320003) G7(320000) F7(xx3210)
C5(x32013) Am7(x02213) F2(xx3213) A7(x02223)
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