Roland & Curt Interviewed chords by Tears for Fears

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C
Gm
Ab
A
F
Eb
Em
D
Abdim
F#m
Dm
Ebdim
Edim

Verse 1
G 
Shout
C 
G 
Gm 
G 
Gm 
G 
Gm 
G 
"I was hoping that somebody
Ab 
Would say that, um
G 
'Shout' was the single
Gm 
for '84
A 
In the sense that there have been
G 
Ab 
There were so many protest
G 
Gm 
singles
G 
And I think 'Shout' was the
F 
Gm 
Most direct of all them"
G 
Shout,

Verse 2
Gm 
shout, let it all out let it all out
Eb 
These are the things I can do without
C 
Come on (come on)
I'm talking to you,
G 
Em 
come on the Working Hour

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Verse 3

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 4
C 
G 
"'The Working Hour' was thrown
A 
F 
G 
F 
Together during, um, rehearsals
G 
Em 
- erm, rehearsals for our last tour erm
Gm 
C 
And it came together
in half an hour that's-
D 
And we've kept it the same pretty
A 
G 
Em 
A 
Much ever since that's
G 
why it sounds- it
Abdim 
G 
Actually sounds   like a band playing"

Verse 5

This day and age for all and not for one

All lies and secrets put on,

put on and on

Verse 6

Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Verse 7
Eb 
"So I came in one- one
D 
day and they'd
Actually written a song around this beat
A 
D 
G 
And, um, it was very commercial,
D 
so they
Said: 'Here it is, you're singing this
Go and do it' so I did"

Verse 8
D 
It's my own design it's
my own remorse
Em 
Help me to decide help make the most
F#m 
Of freedom and of pleasure
D 
G 
F#m 
Nothing ever lasts forever
Em 
F#m 
D 
A 
Everybody wants to rule the world
D 
G 
There's a room

Verse 9
D 
where the
G 
light won't find you
D 
Holding hands while the walls
G 
Come tumbling down
D 
A 
When they do I'll be right behind you

Interlude 1

F#m

Ebdim

Mothers Talk

Verse 10
D 
G 
"It stems from two little
C 
Ideas one is something
A 
G 
That English mothers say
to their English
Children, which is,
D 
G 
G 
if you're pulling a face
You know, like children sometimes do
They say: 'You'll stay like that
C 
G 
When the wind changes'
Em 
That's one idea

Verse 11
D 
and
A 
the other idea is exactly
G 
What you're talking about
Ab 
- 'When the Wind
G 
Blows' - which is cartoon
F#m 
Book by Ray   mond Briggs
G 
Which is an anti- nuclear
thing for instance
The lyrics 'When
the weather starts to burn
Ab 
Then you'll know that you're
G 
In trouble' it's the
A 
Closest we'll get to an an
G 
A 
Em 
ti- nuclear song"

Verse 12
Em 
A 
D 
Given that you pay the price
A 
We can keep you young and tender
C 
Following the footsteps
A 
of a funeral pyre
Gm 
You were paid not to listen
C 
Now your house is on fire
D 

Verse 13
Wake me up when things get started
C 
D 
When everything starts to happen
Dm 
I Believe
G 
Dm 
G 
Dm 

Verse 14
D 
A 
"One of my
G 
favourite songs  on
Eb 
The album very simple
G 
A nice sort of jazz swing
Gm 
G 
To it now, I don't wanna harp on
About the lyrics or anything like that
Gm 
But I think that they are the most potent
Eb 
And powerful lyrics we've ever
Gm 
Eb 
Edim 
F 
Put onto vinyl"

Verse 15
F 
Ab 
I believe that if you thought for a moment
Took your time
You would not resign yourself
Resign yourself to your fate
And I believe that if it's
Gm 
Written in the stars, that's fine
I can't deny that I’m a Virgo
Eb 
too

Interlude 2

Verse 16
A 
Broken "'Broken'
D 
Ab 
was originally
G 
A 
an old b- side which
G 
A 
G 
A 
We put into overdrive again
That comes from doing a lot
G 
of live work with
A 
Those numbers- ran into
G 
each other and worked
A 
G 
So well there's basically the
Same motif- piano motif
In each number that's why they
A 
G 
went together"
A 
Head Over Heels

Verse 17
D 
G 
"yeah, 'Head Over Heels' is
Probably the closest we'll
D 
G 
Ever get to a love song, heh
It's a love song that kind
of goes
C 
A bit perverse at the end"
D 
A 
D 
C 

Verse 18
A 
C 
A 
I wanted to be with you alone
C 
And talk about the weather
A 
But traditions I can trace against
C 
A 
The child in your face
Won't escape my attention
C 
A 
You keep your distance with
C 
Dm 
a system of touch

Verse 19
G 
"It was an instrumental originally, but em
Ian wrote
- Ian Stanley it's a beautiful
instrumental
With just, you know,
me creeping into a
Bit of lyrics in the middle,
G 
Dm 
you know"
F 
Cumpleaños chica, no

Verse 20
G 
Dm 
hay que preocuparse
Soothe my feeling
G 
Dm 
G 
Cumpleaños chica, no hay
Dm 
que preocuparse
Cumpleaños chica, no hay
que preocuparse
G 
Dm 
Soothe my feeling
Cumpleaños chica, no hay
G 
que preocuparse
Cumpleaños chica,
Dm 
no  hay que preocuparse
I feel it, soothe my feeling
Cumpleaños chica,
G 
Dm 
G 
Dm 
no hay que
preocuparse
G 
Dm 
G 
Dm 
Soothe it,
G 
soothe it, soothe my feeling
Now I feel it
Dm 