Released: February 25, 1985
Songwriter: Manny Elias Ian Stanley Roland Orzabal
Producer: Chris Hughes
[Verse 1]
These things that I've been told
Can rearrange
My world, my doubt
In time, but inside out
[Chorus]
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
[Verse 2]
This day and age for all
And not for one
All lies and secrets
Put on, put on and on
[Chorus]
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
[Post-Chorus]
Fear is such a vicious thing
It wraps me up in chains
[Bridge]
Find out, find out
What this fear is about
Find out, find out
What this fear is about
[Bridge]
Find out, find out
What this fear is about
These things that I've been told
Can rearrange
My world, my doubt
In time, but inside out
[Chorus]
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
[Verse 2]
This day and age for all
And not for one
All lies and secrets
Put on, put on and on
[Chorus]
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
[Post-Chorus]
Fear is such a vicious thing
It wraps me up in chains
[Bridge]
Find out, find out
What this fear is about
Find out, find out
What this fear is about
[Bridge]
Find out, find out
What this fear is about
- Songs from the Big Chair (1985)
- 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