"Woman In Chains" by Tears For Fears

For International Women's Day: "Woman In Chains" by Tears For Fears with Oleta Adams. Just phenomenal. After more than thirty years, this song still moves me to absolute tears.

"Somebody, somewhere is trying to breathe..."

 

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
(You better love loving and you better behave)
Sells the only thing she owns
(You better love loving and you better behave)
Woman in chains
(The sun and the moon)
Woman in chains

Men of Stone
Men of Stone

Well I feel deep in your heart there are wounds time can't heal
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
(Somebody somewhere is trying to breathe)
I will not accept the Greatness of Man
It's a world gone crazy
Keeps woman in chains

So free her
So free her

(The sun and the moon

The wind and the rain)

http://tearsforfears.com/