Gary Jules - Mad World Lyrics

Gary Jules Lyrics

"Mad World"
(originally by Tears for Fears)

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere

Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world, mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen

Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world, mad world

Enlarging your world
Mad world

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Thanks to Lisa Van Mol, huggies2010, ericsson_83, Servo, manroatch666 for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Roland Orzabal

Tears for Fears released "Mad World" as their third single. It became the band's first chart hit.

This version was a UK number-one hit, when Michael Andrews and Gary Jules released it a part of the soundtrack to the film 'Donnie Darko' in 2001.

The "Enlarging your world" line in this version was "Halargian world" in the original version. Curt Smith of Tears for Fears explained in 2010, "Halarge was an imaginary planet invented by either Chris Hughes or Ross Cullum during the recording of The Hurting. I added it as a joke during the lead vocal session, and we kept it."