The Way You Are

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"The Way You Are" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. It was the band's sixth single release overall and their fourth UK Top 40 hit. Released as a single in November 1983, it was intended as a stopgap between the band's first and second albums, mainly to keep the group in the public eye, and was not included on the band's second album. The song is the only one to be written by the full band, including keyboardist Ian Stanley and drummer Manny Elias. It was written while on tour in support of the band's debut album The Hurting in 1983 and was recorded immediately after the tour's end. Produced by Chris Hughes and Ross Cullum, who produced The Hurting, the song utilised sampled voices and rhythms, a burgeoning trend in new wave music in the 1980s. Bassist Curt Smith performs lead vocal on the song. Despite reaching the Top 30, the song was not included on the band's 1992 Greatest Hits album, though both it and the B-side "The Marauders" were later included on the band's 1996 B-sides and rarities collection Saturnine Martial & Lunatic, and on the 2006 Deluxe Edition reissue of Songs from the Big Chair. The extended 12" version of the song was included on the 1999 remastered version of The Hurting. 


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2010
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Going far, getting nowhere, going far, the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere, going far, the way you are

Going far, getting nowhere, the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere, the way you are

These fingers aren't my fingers
These hands are not my hands
No one sees and no one cares what gets broken
Not for rhyme and not for reason
What gets broken, what gets broken

Going far, getting nowhere, going far, the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere, going far, the way you are

Going far, getting nowhere, the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere, the way you are

And the rhythm of machinery
Slows to a heartbeat
Echoing ghost just laid by
Those who whistle while they work
Out of time and out of season
What gets broken

Going far, getting nowhere, going far, the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere, going far, the way you are

Going far, getting nowhere, the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere
The way you are, the way you are
The way you, the way you are

Going far, getting nowhere, going far, the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere, going far, the way you are

Going far, getting nowhere, the way you are
Going far, getting nowhere, the way you are

The way you are
The way you are
The way you are
The way you
The way you are

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Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an English New Wave band formed in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesizer bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into mainstream rock and pop, which led to international chart success. more »

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Written by: EMMANUEL TUNDE BAIYEWU, PAUL JOHN TUCKER, TIM LAWS

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