Mad World
Gary Jules (cover of Tears for Fears) [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/g/gary_jules/mad_world.html ]
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad World
Enlarging your world
Mad World.
This is the reality of the world we live in, these people who could be your closest friends u feel so isolated from,the expressionless faces of people who dont know and dont care
whether your ok because they're worn out, they are too wrapped up in their own problems too recognise that anyone else maybe struggling to keep going. You feel so low and so lonely that ur dreams reflect how u trully feel the only ones that are any good are the ones in which ur dying in fact you have never had better dreams because these dreams show the true you- but at the same time you want someone to realise that ur not ok and u want help but u just dont no how to and cant ask 4 help because it is so hard and you feel so alone in this mad world- all children should feel happy on there birthday but it isnt so and when u go too school it is like everywhere else its like ur invisible noone sees wats wrong they "look right through me"-and you just find it so hard to take it it hurts so bad the way they dont see you, like you and your feelings dont matter and once again you mean nothing - its so funny in a way ironic even that the dreams in which your dying are the best you've ever had and the thought that ur life has gotten this bad is saddening - this mad world can be so painful - i listen to this song and to me it describes how it feels when you have depression it is a great song and if a few more ppl took the time too listen they would know a little of wat having depression feels like - 'it sucks it really does'- i hate the way it makes me feel
Mad World lyrics
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by Unregistered on Jan 25th 2012 9:16 am
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'this was a hit for tears for fears in 1983 and then hit the charts again twenty years later in 2003 with a version done by gary jules.
The lyrics are written from the viewpoint of a troubled teenager, looking out on a `mad world' and struggling with thoughts of suicide. Written by roland orzabal, he said, ``lyrically the song is pretty loose. It throws together a lot of different images to paint a picture without saying anything specific about the world... It came to me when i lived above a pizza restaurant in bath and i could look out onto the centre of the city. Not that bath is very mad - i should have called it `bourgeois world! '''
The bulk of the song comments on how he sees the world, with people rushing around going about their everyday business yet never really seeming to get anywhere. A more personal verse focuses on how he's feeling and his growing sense of not fitting in to the world. This may have been drawn from orzabal's own, well documented, troubled childhood which has inspired many of his lyrics.
The most haunting line in the song lets us in on his suicidal thoughts with, `the dreams in which i'm dying are the best i've ever had,' sending a chilling message. The 2003 cover version was used in the soundtrack of the psychological thriller `donnie darko'. '
by Unregistered on Jan 21st 2012 6:53 pm
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That you're willing to die to see somewhere better than this world because there some that knows you better than this world in other words goig to heaven with god
by Unregistered on Jan 16th 2012 12:36 pm
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The meaning of mad world is basically explaining how someone can feel. You can have plenty of friends but still feel lonely
by Unregistered on Jan 13th 2012 4:38 am
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It is a life's expressions, where people glad, where people mad, where people hope, how people live a life
by Unregistered on Jan 11th 2012 11:55 am
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People are completly different.. Not everyone is the same and we shouldnt be.. Judging is wrong, and in the society today no one knows exactly how to act withought putting others below them
by Unregistered on Dec 23rd 2011 10:52 am
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This song means its about a kid who wants to go away from this mad world that he lives
by Unregistered on Dec 18th 2011 9:26 pm
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It's about the truth of how people feel during their life
by Unregistered on Dec 16th 2011 10:14 am
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This song is basically about the world of today where routine and structure form requirements of day to day living. It recognizes a person who isnt necessarily suicidal (as some ppl think! ) it is about a person who wishes to live life to its fullest not simply because he or she should but because he or she wishes to :) the person feels the present world is filled with robots (known on earth as ppl), who need to hold responsibility in order to be "bright and early" , children who's birthdays are the only days they "feel good", children who are required to "sit and listen" (possibly hinting at the unheard voices of the weaker man as well as other beings on earth)
mad world tells us of humans under a remote control they themselves have constructed...
by Unregistered on Dec 12th 2011 2:25 pm
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by Unregistered on Dec 12th 2011 6:54 am
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I really love love this song it has a great meaning ...