Released: October 21, 2013
Songwriter: Roland Orzabal
Producer: Mike Robinson Dale Griffin
[Verse 1: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith]
Is it an horrific dream?
Am I sinking fast?
Could a person be so mean
As to laugh and laugh
[Pre-Chorus 1: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith]
On my own
Could you ease my load?
Could you see my pain?
Could you please explain
The hurting
[Interlude]
[Verse 2: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith]
Could you understand a child
When he cries in pain?
Could you give him all he needs
Or do you feel the same?
[Pre-Chorus 2: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith]
All along
You've been told you're wrong
When you felt it right
And you're left to fight
The hurting
[Chorus: Roland Orzabal]
The hurt, hurt, hurt
The hurt, hurt, hurt
[Interlude]
[Bridge: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith]
Get in line with the things you know
Feel the pain, feel the sorrow
Touch the hurt and don't let go
Don't let go, don't let go
Get in line with the things you know
Learn to cry, like a baby
Then the hurting won't come back
Won't come back, won't come back
[Outro: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, Roland Orzabal]
Is it an horrific dream?
Is it an horrific dream?
Is it an horrific dream?
The hurt, hurt, hurt
Is it an horrific dream?
The hurt, hurt, hurt
Is it an horrific dream?
The hurt, hurt, hurt
Is it an horrific dream?
The hurt, hurt, hurt
Is it an horrific dream?
Am I sinking fast?
Could a person be so mean
As to laugh and laugh
[Pre-Chorus 1: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith]
On my own
Could you ease my load?
Could you see my pain?
Could you please explain
The hurting
[Interlude]
[Verse 2: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith]
Could you understand a child
When he cries in pain?
Could you give him all he needs
Or do you feel the same?
[Pre-Chorus 2: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith]
All along
You've been told you're wrong
When you felt it right
And you're left to fight
The hurting
[Chorus: Roland Orzabal]
The hurt, hurt, hurt
The hurt, hurt, hurt
[Interlude]
[Bridge: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith]
Get in line with the things you know
Feel the pain, feel the sorrow
Touch the hurt and don't let go
Don't let go, don't let go
Get in line with the things you know
Learn to cry, like a baby
Then the hurting won't come back
Won't come back, won't come back
[Outro: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, Roland Orzabal]
Is it an horrific dream?
Is it an horrific dream?
Is it an horrific dream?
The hurt, hurt, hurt
Is it an horrific dream?
The hurt, hurt, hurt
Is it an horrific dream?
The hurt, hurt, hurt
Is it an horrific dream?
The hurt, hurt, hurt
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
- 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