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"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears For Fears

Strong Songs

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The Bridge: A Song of Hope

From the bridge out this song becomes a real layer fest. They combine old ideas with new ones, layer familiarsynths and samples onto new synths and samples and use familiar sounds in new ways. This bridge is a good opportunity to talk a bit more about this song's lyrics which are really cool. There's a sort of bleak hopefulness to this song, this mix of resignation to the cynical nature of the world and this hope of finding some human connection in spite of that,. In spite of the world.

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