Woman In Chains lyrics
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
Woman in Chains
Woman in Chains
Well I feel lying and waiting is a poor man's deal
And I feel hopelessly weighed down by your eyes of steel
It's a world gone crazy
Keeps Woman in Chains
Trades her soul as skin and bones
Sells the only thing she owns
Woman in Chains
Woman in Chains
Men of Stone
Men of Stone
Well I feel deep in your heart there are wounds Time can't heals
And I feel somebody somewhere is trying to breathe
Well 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
So Free Her
So Free Her
- Roland Orzabal (rhythm guitar, vocals)
- Curt Smith (bass, vocals)
- Oleta Adams (piano, vocals)
- Carole Steele (percussion)
- Neil Taylor (lead guitar)
- Andy Davis (keyboards)
- Will Gregory (saxophone)
- Jim Copley (drums)
- Adele Bertei (backing vocals)
- Biti Strauchn (backing vocals)
Music produced by Roland Orzabal (credited as "Raoul").
"Woman in Chains" is a hit song by the British 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 UK, United States, Australia, Ireland, Italy and New Zealand, and was a Top 20 hit in Canada, France, the Netherlands and in Poland (where it was particularly successful, reaching n°5[1]). The studio cut features Phil Collins on drums, and is also notable for guest vocals from female singer Oleta Adams, who would later go on to achieve a successful solo career.
The song was re-released in 1992 (with a different B-side and now credited to "Tears For Fears featuring Oleta Adams") in order to capitalise on the recent solo success of Oleta Adams and to promote the Tears for Fears Greatest Hits compilation Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82-92), this time reaching #57 in the UK.
The video, directed by Andy Morahan, was filmed in black and white and focuses on the abusive relationship between a man (a boxer) and a woman (a pole-dancer, played by Angela Alvarado) and is interspersed with shots of the band and guest vocalist Oleta Adams performing the song. The video does not however feature guest drummer Phil Collins. Chris Hughes mimes in the video.
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.
I've loved Oleta Adams since I first heard her sing. I'm glad I found this video from their "Going to California" Concert. I hope you like it too.
