TEARS FOR FEARS - WOMAN IN CHAINS

WOMAN IN CHAINS

TEARS FOR FEARS

SONGWRITER: ROLAND ORZABAL

WHERE: ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 2017

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: THE SEEDS OF LOVE

LABEL: FONTANA RECORDS

GENRE: NEW WAVE

YEAR: 1989

"Woman in Chains" is a song by the English band Tears for Fears, released as the second single from their 1989 album The Seeds of Love.

The single reached the Top 40 in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Italy and New Zealand, and was a Top 20 hit in Canada (just missing the Top 10, at n°11), France, the Netherlands and in Poland (where it was particularly successful, reaching number 5).

The studio cut features Pino Palladino on fretless bass and Phil Collins on drums. "Tears for Fears just wanted me to do that big drum thing from 'In the Air Tonight'…" Collins recalled. "'We want you to come in here in a big way.'"

The song prominently features vocals by Oleta Adams, who went on to achieve a successful solo career. It was rereleased in 1992 – with a different B-side and now credited to "Tears For Fears featuring Oleta Adams" – to capitalise on the singer's solo success and to promote the Tears for Fears compilation Tears Roll Dow (Greatest Hits 82–92). This time, it reached number 57 in the UK.

You better love loving and you better behave

You better love loving and you better behave

Woman in chains

Woman in chains

Calls her man

"The Great White Hope"

Says she's fine

She'll always cope

Ooh

Woman in chains

Woman in chains

Well, I feel lying and waiting

Is a poor man's deal

(A poor man's deal)

And I feel hopelessly weighed down

By your eyes of steel

(Your eyes of steel)

Well, it's a world gone crazy

Keeps woman in chains

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Woman in chains

Woman in chains

Trades her soul as skin and bone

(You better love loving and you better behave)

Sells the only thing she owns

(You better love loving and you better behave)

Ooh, ooh

Woman in chains

(The sun and the moon)

Woman in chains

Men of stone!

Men of stone!

Hey, baby

No, no, ooh

Well, I feel deep in your heart

There are wounds time can't heal

(Wounds time can't heal)

And I feel somebody, somewhere

Is trying to breathe

You know what I mean

It's a world gone crazy

Keeps woman in chains

It's under my skin, but out of my hands

I'll tear it apart but I won't understand

I will not accept the greatness of man

It's a world gone crazy

Keeps woman in chains

Gone crazy

Woman in chains

So free her

So free her

So free her.