Released: November 7, 2014
Songwriter: Roland Orzabal
Producer: Tears for Fears
[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 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
[Interlude]
[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 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
[Interlude]
[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
more tracks from the album
Unreleased Songs from the Big Chair
- Head Over Heels (Live) [Richard Skinner Session 1984]
- Shout (Demo)
- Broken (Demo)
- The Way You Are (Demo)
- Mothers Talk (Demo Instrumental)
- Shout (Live) [Massey Hall, Toronto 1985]
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Live) [Massey Hall, Toronto 1985]
- The Working Hour (Live) [Massey Hall, Toronto 1985]
- Memories Fade (Live) [Massey Hall, Toronto 1985]
- Broken / Head Over Heels / Broken (Live) [Massey Hall, Toronto 1985]
- Mothers Talk (Live) [Massey Hall, Toronto 1985]
- Broken (Live) [Richard Skinner Session 1984]
- The Working Hour (Live) [Richard Skinner Session 1984]
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Alternative 7" Version)
From the album
Tears for Fears popular songs
- 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