Released: January 24, 1983
Songwriter: Roland Orzabal
Producer: Ross Cullum Chris Hughes
[Verse 1]
You walked in to the room
I just had to laugh
The face you wore was cool
You were a photograph
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Verse 2]
I did not have the time
I did not have the nerve
To ask you how you feel
Is this what you deserve?
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
[Verse 3]
And something on your mind
Became a point of view
I lost your honesty
You lost the life in you
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Verse 4]
We walk and talk in time
I walk and talk in two
Where does the end of me
Become the start of you?
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
[Bridge]
What has happened to
The friend that I once knew?
Has he gone away?
[Interlude]
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
Change
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
You walked in to the room
I just had to laugh
The face you wore was cool
You were a photograph
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Verse 2]
I did not have the time
I did not have the nerve
To ask you how you feel
Is this what you deserve?
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
[Verse 3]
And something on your mind
Became a point of view
I lost your honesty
You lost the life in you
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Verse 4]
We walk and talk in time
I walk and talk in two
Where does the end of me
Become the start of you?
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
[Bridge]
What has happened to
The friend that I once knew?
Has he gone away?
[Interlude]
[Pre-Chorus]
When it's all too late
It's all too late
Change
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
[Chorus]
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
Rule the World
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- I Love You But I’m Lost
- Change (Radio Edit)
- Mothers Talk (U.S. Remix)
- Head Over Heels (Dave Bascombe 7" Mix)
- Break It Down Again
- I Believe
- Shout (Short 7" Version)
- Closest Thing To Heaven
- Raoul and the Kings of Spain
- Woman in Chains
- Sowing the Seeds of Love
- Advice for the Young at Heart
- Pale Shelter
- Mad World
- Stay
- Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92) (1992)
- Rule the World (2017)
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- Mad World
- Head Over Heels / Broken (Reprise)
- Shout
- Sowing the Seeds of Love
- Pale Shelter
- Woman in Chains
- Memories Fade
- I Love You But I’m Lost
- Listen
- Watch Me Bleed
- The Working Hour
- Break It Down Again
- Mothers Talk
- Advice for the Young at Heart
- Head Over Heels
- Change
- I Believe
- The Hurting
- Broken
- Ideas As Opiates
- Badman’s Song
- Suffer the Children
- Goodnight Song