Today’s Tunage: Head Over Heels

Here’s Tears for Fears with “Head Over Heels” from their 1985 album Songs from the Big Chair. Described as a love song that “goes a bit perverse at the end,” it hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Right now you’re probably remembering how much you like this song … or maybe not.

That reminds us, our jukebox is also your jukebox. If you’ve got a song you want to hear, email us. Also be sure to scroll down beneath the lyrics to see all the other songs we’ve played previously …

TEARS FOR FEARS: “HEAD OVER HEELS”

I wanted to be with you alone
And talk about the weather
But traditions I can trace against the child in your face
Won’t escape my attention

You keep your distance with a system of touch
And gentle persuasion
I’m lost in admiration could I need you this much
Oh, you’re wasting my time
You’re just (just just) wasting time

Something happens and I’m head over heels
I never find out till I’m head over heels
Something happens and I’m head over heels
Ah don’t take my heart
Don’t break my heart
Don’t don’t don’t throw it away

(throw it away, throw it away)

I made a fire and watching burn
Thought of your future
With one foot in the past now just how long will it last
No no no have you no ambition
My mother and my brothers used to breathe in clean air
And dreaming I’m a doctor
Its hard to be a man when there’s a gun in your hand
Oh I feel so…

Something happens and I’m head over heels
I never find out till I’m head over heels
Something happens and I’m head over heels
Ah don’t take my heart
Don’t break my heart
Don’t don’t don’t throw it away

And this my four leaf clover
I’m on the line, one open mind
This is my four leaf clover …

Lalalalala-lalalalala (etc.)

In my mind’s eye
One little boy, one little man
Funny how time flies …

PREVIOUSLY …

The Afghan Whigs – “Gentleman”
All-American Rejects – “Swing, Swing”
Arcade Fire – “Suburbs”
Beastie Boys – “Sabotage”
Beck – “Loser”
The Black Crowes – “Soul Singing”
The Black Crowes – “Wiser Time”
B.O.B. – “Nothing On You”
Bouncing Souls – “!Ole!”
Brother Ali – “Uncle Sam Goddamn”
The Cars – “Let’s Go”
Coolio – “Fantastic Voyage”
Cracker – “Low”
Cypress Hill – “Rock Superstar”
The Cure – “Burn”
The Dan Band – “Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Cover)”
Death Cab For Cute – “Expo 86?
Billy Ward & The Dominoes – “Sixty Minute Man”
Dropkick Murphys – “Shipping Up To Boston”
Elvis Costello – “Every Day I Write The Book”
Eminem (ft. Rihanna) – “Love The Way You Lie”
Filter – “One (Cover)”
Flobots – “Handlebars”
Ben Folds Five – “Rockin’ The Suburbs”
Foo Fighters – “Times Like These”
Foo Fighters – “My Hero”
The Fray – “The Great Beyond (Cover)”
Green Day – “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
Ice Cube – “It Was A Good Day”
James – “Born of Frustration (Live)”
Janet Jackson – “When I Think  Of You”
Joy Division – “New Dawn Fades”
Jupiter One – “Countdown”
Kesha- “Your Love Is My Drug”
Katie Melua -  “Just Like Heaven (Cover)”
The Killers – “Shadowplay (Cover)”
The Killers – “Sweet Talk”
Lady Ga Ga/ Beyonce – “Telephone”
Led Zeppelin – “Your Time Is Gonna Come/ Black Mountain Side”
Led Zeppelin – “Misty Mountain Hop”
Led Zeppelin – “Thank You”
Live – “Overcome”
Live – “White, Discussion”
Living Colour – “Cult of Personality”
LL Cool J – “Mama Said Knock You Out”
Luna – “Lovedust”
Bob Marley – “One Love”
Sarah McLachlan – “Building A Mystery”
Metric – “Help I’m Alive”
M.I.A. – “Paper Planes”
George Michael – “Freedom ’90?
Midnight Oil – “Dreamworld”
Monster Magnet – “Negasonic Teenage Warhead”
The National – “All The Wine”
Naughty By Nature – “O.P.P.”
Nena – “99 Luftballoons”
New Order – “Regret”
Nine Inch Nails – “Piggy”
Nine Inch Nails – “Hand That Feeds”
Nirvana – “All Apologies”
Nirvana – “Rape Me”
Novadriver – “Blackout”
One Republic – “All The Right Moves”
The Outfield – “I Don’t Need Her”
Outkast – “Rosa Parks”
Outkast – “Gasoline Dreams”
Owl City – “Hot Air Balloon”
Parliament-Funkadelic – “Give Up The Funk”
Panic At The Disco! – “Karma Police” (Cover)
Paramore – “The Only Exception”
Pavement – “Range Life”
Pearl Jam – “Alive”
Tom Petty – “The Waiting”
Liz Phair – “Johnny Feelgood”
The Police – “Synchronicity II”
Pretenders – “Back On The Chain Gang”
Queen – “Somebody To Love”
R.E.M. – “Finest Worksong”
R.E.M. – “These Days”
R.E.M. – “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
Gerry Rafferty – “Right Down The Line”
Rage Against The Machine – “Bulls on Parade”
Rage Against The Machine – “Killing In The Name Of”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Geek, U.S.A.”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Age Of Innocence”
The Smiths – “Headmaster Ritual”
The Smiths – “Panic”
Soul Asylum – “Somebody To Shove”
Soundgarden – “Outshined”
Soundgarden – “Burden In My Hand”
The Spin Doctors – “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”
Sting – “Fortress Around Your Heart”
The Strokes – “Hard To Explain”
Teenage Fanclub – “Hang On”
‘Til Tuesday – “Voices Carry”
TV Heart Attack – “AO”
Twilight Singers – “The Twilite Kid”
U2 – “Pride (In The Name Of Love)”
U2 – “Until The End Of The World”
U2 – “Where The Streets Have No Name”
The Verve – “Lucky Man”
The Waitresses – “I Know What Boys Like”
Weezer – “Put Me Back Together”
The Who – “Baba O’Riley”
Stevie Wonder – “I Believe (When I Fall In Love This Time It Will Last Forever)”
Wu-Tang Clan – “C.R.E.A.M.”
Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”

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