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"There's too much… to be aware of, just about being a human being, about being alive, just about living. There's too much to know, and there's too much at stake… to be… trying to fuck up anybody else's life. Because… you know, muh, I don't know. Life is bigger than anything, and afterwards it's bigger than anything." - Jeff Buckley I'm Luci, from São Paulo. Welcome, and enjoy this place! =)

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Psychological analysis of Tears for Fears’s song: “Elemental”: 

(Request by my bestie: @pauls-mccharmly)

It’s the first song of the album of the same name. Which means that Roland is going to be so intense during the process of singing in this album. This song is just after he and Curt broke up in 1990. So, during 1990 and 1992 Roland was so lost. He wanted to die. He is saying (to himself) that the fight he had with Curt, is already made. That he (Roland) needs to leave that road he was crossing with Curt at his side, and that he needs to enter into a new train, a new life. Like: “How am I suppose to live without him? What should I do next?”. In this part, he is being welcomed by a new feeling, a new sky. But, he is trying to go faster than before. He is not thinking clearly. He still has those fresh wounds from the fight. He embraces himself. Like he doesn’t have anyone. He is all one. And that he needs to start again. To reborn from those ashes. And again, he is talking to himself. He is asking if he already have lost faith in God. His conscience sometimes is playing with his mind and heart. His soul is falling down, falling into pieces. But then, somehow…he realizes that all of those feelings he is starting to experience, are just in the mind. Like, it’s going to happen in a natural way. He keeps hoping for a new day to come. He says that he feels happy but deep inside he is so lonely, so depressed and sad. He screams at himself that he shouldn’t think about being happy when actually, he’s not.

In the video Roland first appears from the black scene, light upon his head. Like as his new renaissance. Roland is wearing three different outfits during the video. The red one means his heart. The blue one means his tears and the gold one means his soul, his voice. The fire and the water that are as the back ground, means that after being hurted, from time to time he is healing. And even if he’s with people, he is acting all by himself. The scream he does almost at the end of the song, is really him screaming because the pain is way too painful.

Roland in the lyrics is saying to himself, that a new year is showing into a new horizon. He must take a step, immediately. He knows he has a very humble heart, but he’s not quite sure about showing it to people. He now is wondering what kind of person he became during those two years? He keeps saying that he must be patience. Everything will happen.

Like Roland would say in his own words: “But that’s the plan in the world of elemental, y’know. It’s only in the mind, these days. It’s all the mind. It’s mental. It’s ELEMENTAL”

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Tears For Fears Taratata (1995- 10-08) Roland Orzabal with Pascal Obispo

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Mariah Carey: *sings a whistle register note*

Roland in Elemental: hold my Earl Grey tea

[moodswingwhiskey]

Roland Orzabal screaming at the end of Elemental is so AAAAAAAAAAAAA

#TearsForFears #RolandOrzabal #Elemental #TearsForFearsElemental #RolandOrzabalHasPipes #RolandOrzabalCanHitAHigherNote

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" Don't say your up when your down, it's elemental. "

Tears for Fears - Elemental.

[moodswingwhiskey]

I know all quotes from every Elemental GIF 😅

#TearsForFears #RolandOrzabal #Elemental #TearsForFearsElemental

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them: you can't hear pictures

me:

[brokethedrawer]

Fascinating! Much of this is info that exists in other profiles of them from back in the '80s, but there are a few things--especially in the lists of songs and books--that I don't remember seeing elsewhere.

Text transcript follows:

Transcript:

Title: Portrait of the Artist as a Consumer: Tears for Fears

SONGS:

Family Snapshots – Peter Gabriel

Happy – Dalek I Love You

Destiny – Dalek I Love You

Arctic Death – Virginia Astley

Great Dominion – Teardrop Explodes

America – Simon & Garfunkel

Mother – John Lennon

Continental Shelf – Electric Guitars

Heaven – Talking Heads

Ideas As Opiates – Tears for Fears

Ghosts – Japan

Family Affair – Sly & Family Stone

BOOKS:

Prisoners of Pain – Janov

Primal Revolution – Janov

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Dibs In Search Of Self – Virginia Axline

Birth Without Violence – Leboyer

Pincher Martin – William Golding

HATES:

Psycho killers

Rock ‘n’ roll

Pure funk

Politics

Pure electronics music

Ambition

Tension

Bands

Pure pop

Religion

LOVES:

Bath (where we live)

Physical contact

Caroline

Lynn

Zero Algebra Waldorf Churchill

Treasure and Junior

FILMS:

The Elephant Man

Ordinary People

Deer Hunter

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Animal House

Marathon Man

FOOD:

Stilton

Courgettes in garlic butter

Lasagne

Garlic mayonnaise

Houmus

Beef strogonoff

Corn on the cob

Bernaise sauce

From: 15th January, 1983 New Musical Express

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This is the man who had to deal with anxiety and depression for more than 5 years. Since 1991 until 2001, he was not the same. Somehow it poisoned his mind and will.

In 1993, yet he needed to do his "fake" laugh and smile in front of his coworkers and in shows or interviews, pretending everything was okay, while in his head there was a time bomb.

He didn't want to eat. Or sleep. Somehow a part of him died when Curt left his life. He was his soulmate. There was a huge space in his heart that nothing could fill (his wife Caroline and the birth of his first son, Raoul helped somehow). But it was different.

He is very emotional, but in that time, he didn't cry in front of people. I know deeply that he did, all alone in his house. Where no one could see him vulnerable. Because he was.

His voice became more soft and more smooth. But deep he sounded so melancholic and sad. In his album: "Elemental", he shows his true feelings. And even in the lyrics, he express what he could not say in words.

I know deeply (from own experiences) how a departure of a friend can affect you mentally, psychologically, and physically. I know how Roland felt.

But he was brave. Brave enough to not kill himself. But I bet he was thinking about it so many times.

Roland boy, probably many blame you for Curt's departure in the 90's, but I don't. You are one of the sweetest man I've ever seen on Earth.

And that's the reason why Roland in the 90's is my favorite. My fav era of him. Because he was vulnerable.

Yet, he fought against his own demons. And I admire him for that.

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Gonna be posting again. Long time no see. Gifs of my husband to cheer up my day

[moodswingwhiskey]

"These days it's all in the mind, it's elemental" ❤️🤘🏻

#TearsForFears #RolandOrzabal #Elemental #TearsForFearsElemental

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Tears for Fears photographed by Peter Noble in London, 1983.  

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Tears for Fears 🌻☀️🌙

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Tears for Fears photographed by Virginia Turbett, 1982.

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Tears For Fears - Mothers Talk (US Mix, 1986) dir. Nigel Dick

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Tears for Fears photographed by Peter Noble in London, 1983.  

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