Heartbreaking World

About Heartbreaking World

"Heartbreaking World", released Oct. 1985, was the third UK single released from Squeeze's sixth album, Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti. While every other Squeeze single was written by the team of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, this one was penned by Difford and keyboardist Jools Holland. This is also the only Squeeze single to feature a lead vocal by Holland. Holland's younger brother Chris Holland also plays emulator on this track.

Year:

1985

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The saddest thing I've ever seen 
Was a starving face on my TV screen 
The desperate face that I saw 
Had my disbelief hanging from my jaw 
Our harvest could be shared around 
Instead it's buried in the ground 
The saddest thing I've ever seen 
Was a football fan dying for his team 
The toughest thing I have ever known 
Was a soldier boy who never made it home 
It's fiction live before our eyes 
It leaves me cold and my heart cries 

The greatest thing I've ever seen 
Was a newborn child looking up at me 
The greatest sound I've ever heard 
Was a baby's cry in this wicked world 
The innocence of that cry 
Leaves me cold and my heart cries 

It's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be 
It's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be 
It's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be 
And you're the one that breaks it for me

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Squeeze

Squeeze are a British band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s. They are known in the UK for their hit songs "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", "Tempted", "Labelled With Love", "Black Coffee In Bed", "Another Nail in My Heart","Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" and "Hourglass". Though not as commercially successful in the U.S., Squeeze had American chart hits with "Tempted", "Hourglass" and "853-5937", and they have a dedicated following there and continue to attract new fans. All of Squeeze's hits were written by band members Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, with the former penning the lyrics and the latter handling the composition. The duo we… more »

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