TEARS FOR FEARS – No Small Thing

Watch the official video for Tears For Fears’ new single “No Small Thing” from their upcoming album ‘The Tipping Point’, coming February 25, 2022.

“In early 2020, Curt and I sat down together with just a couple of acoustic guitars. The first time in decades. We needed a meeting of minds, a coming together psychically. We were literally going back to the drawing board looking for some depth, heart and soul with which to complete our album. Curt came up with this simple folk/country riff, a little bit Dylan, a little bit Johnny Cash, and then we were off. It was the complete opposite of what we had been trying to do for many years – searching for the elusive, modern hit single. We felt suddenly unencumbered, free if you like, no longer worrying about the market, about success, but drawing on influences from our childhoods. It was at this point that the whole album started opening up. ‘No Small Thing’ was the key, the thing that turned a red light green,” – Roland Orzabal

“‘No Small Thing’ feels like it could have been a song from a seventies or sixties acoustic folk album with how the track starts. The fact that we felt confident enough to go from there to the end of the song to where it’s just absolute mayhem speaks to that sense of freedom, and that’s our comfort zone musically.” – Curt Smith

Get your sweets from the candy man Get your truth from the shelf Don’t buy into the fairy tale Just be good to yourself ‘Cause you know that I love you, girl You’re my way out of hell But I’ve just one more song to sing One more story to tell

When I’m tired of the bright lights When I’m tired of the wine I’ll go down to Wheal Mexico To the depths of the mine When I’m forty years older When I’m wrinkled and wise I will trade all my liberty For that look in your eyes

Reason gonna blind you Cripple and confine you Listen as your poor heart breaks Take a trip to America Let the wind blow right through your hair We’ll buy beer and some hope to share Every day

‘Cause freedom Is no small thing We punish the child For flying too high For rushing like the wind

Reason gonna blind you Cripple and confine you Listen as your poor heart breaks (Stars are like diamonds we fly across the sky for them No one’s gonna change who we are)

‘Cause freedom Is no small thing We punish the child For flying too high For rushing like the wind