Released: March 7, 1983
Songwriter: Roland Orzabal
Producer: Ross Cullum Chris Hughes
[Verse 1]
There's only need, I love your need
So much I'm losing me
I cannot see the reason for the pain
With hungry joy, I'll be your toy
Just hoping you will play
Without the hope my body starts to fail
[Chorus 1]
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Goodbye, my friend
Will I ever love again?
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Woah, woah
[Verse 2]
I cannot grow, I cannot move
I cannot feel my age
The vice-like grip of tension holds me fast
Engulfed by you, what can I do
When history's my cage?
Look forward to a future in the past
[Chorus 1]
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Goodbye, my friend
Will I ever love again?
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Woah, woah
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
The more I talk, the more I say
The less you seem to hear
I'm speechless in a most peculiar way
Your mind is weak, your need is great
And nothing is too dear
For you to use to take the pain away
[Chorus 2]
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Goodbye my friend
Will I ever love again?
Memories fade
When I die, pretend you can justify the end
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Woah, woah, still linger
Still linger, woah
There's only need, I love your need
So much I'm losing me
I cannot see the reason for the pain
With hungry joy, I'll be your toy
Just hoping you will play
Without the hope my body starts to fail
[Chorus 1]
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Goodbye, my friend
Will I ever love again?
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Woah, woah
[Verse 2]
I cannot grow, I cannot move
I cannot feel my age
The vice-like grip of tension holds me fast
Engulfed by you, what can I do
When history's my cage?
Look forward to a future in the past
[Chorus 1]
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Goodbye, my friend
Will I ever love again?
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Woah, woah
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
The more I talk, the more I say
The less you seem to hear
I'm speechless in a most peculiar way
Your mind is weak, your need is great
And nothing is too dear
For you to use to take the pain away
[Chorus 2]
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Goodbye my friend
Will I ever love again?
Memories fade
When I die, pretend you can justify the end
Memories fade but the scars still linger
Woah, woah, still linger
Still linger, woah
The Hurting
- Memories Fade
- The Way You Are (12" Version)
- Change (New Version)
- Ideas As Opiates (Live) [Peel Session 1982]
- Suffer the Children (Live) [Peel Session 1982]
- The Prisoner (Live) [Peel Session 1982]
- The Hurting (Live) [Peel Session 1982]
- Memories Fade (Live) [David Jensen Session 1982]
- The Prisoner (Live) [David Jensen Session 1982]
- Start of the Breakdown (Live) [David Jensen Session 1982]
- Pale Shelter (Long Version)
- Mad World (World Remix)
- Change
- Mad World
- Pale Shelter
- The Prisoner
- Start of the Breakdown
- The Hurting
- Change (Extended Version)
- Watch Me Bleed
- Suffer the Children
- Ideas As Opiates
- The Hurting (Live) [David Jensen Session 1982]
- The Hurting (1983)
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World: The Collection (2013)
- 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