Released: February 19, 1990
Songwriter: Nicky Holland Roland Orzabal
Producer: Dave Bascombe Tears for Fears
[Hook]
Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work?
[Verse 1]
Too many people living in a secret world
While they play mothers and fathers
We play little boys and girls
When we gonna make it work?
I could be happy, I could be quite naive
It's only me and my shadows
Happy in our make believe
Soon...
[Pre-Chorus 1]
And with the hounds at bay
I'll call your bluff
Hey, 'cause it would be okay
To walk on tiptoes everyday
[Chorus]
And when I think of you and all the love that's due
I'll make a promise, I'll make a stand
'Cause to these big brown eyes, this comes as no surprise
We've got the whole wide world in our hands
[Hook]
Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work?
[Verse 2]
Love is promise, love is a souvenir
Once given
Never forgotten, never let it disappear
This could be our last chance
When we gonna make it work?
Working hour is over
[Pre-Chorus 2]
And how it makes me weep
Cause someone sent my soul to sleep
[Chorus]
And when I think of you and all the love that's due
I'll make a promise, I'll make a stand
Cause to these big brown eyes, this comes as no surprise
We've got the whole wide world in our hands
[Interlude]
[Bridge]
We've got the whole wide world in our hands
We've got the whole wide world in our hands
[Hook]
Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work?
[Hook]
Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work?
[Outro]
Working hour is over
We can do anything that we want
Anything that we feel like doing
"Advice..."
Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work?
[Verse 1]
Too many people living in a secret world
While they play mothers and fathers
We play little boys and girls
When we gonna make it work?
I could be happy, I could be quite naive
It's only me and my shadows
Happy in our make believe
Soon...
[Pre-Chorus 1]
And with the hounds at bay
I'll call your bluff
Hey, 'cause it would be okay
To walk on tiptoes everyday
[Chorus]
And when I think of you and all the love that's due
I'll make a promise, I'll make a stand
'Cause to these big brown eyes, this comes as no surprise
We've got the whole wide world in our hands
[Hook]
Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work?
[Verse 2]
Love is promise, love is a souvenir
Once given
Never forgotten, never let it disappear
This could be our last chance
When we gonna make it work?
Working hour is over
[Pre-Chorus 2]
And how it makes me weep
Cause someone sent my soul to sleep
[Chorus]
And when I think of you and all the love that's due
I'll make a promise, I'll make a stand
Cause to these big brown eyes, this comes as no surprise
We've got the whole wide world in our hands
[Interlude]
[Bridge]
We've got the whole wide world in our hands
We've got the whole wide world in our hands
[Hook]
Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work?
[Hook]
Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work?
[Outro]
Working hour is over
We can do anything that we want
Anything that we feel like doing
"Advice..."
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- 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