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The Devil Lyrics — Tears for Fears | Dork

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Tears for Fears
The Devil Lyrics

Lyrics

Tears for Fears

The Devil

From Everybody Loves a Happy Ending2004

Written by Roland Orzabal

Produced by Charlton Pettus, Tears for Fears

Lyrics

The Devil

The devil, take me now Before I'm ushered out 'Cause you are like me But I can bleed And I can die But I can't hide From you Prisoners of course Taken by force To smother my streams Tonight in my dreams 'Cause I can die But I can't hide The way is clear Away from here And you

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About this track

"The Devil" is a song by Tears for Fears from the album Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, released in 2004. The song was written by Roland Orzabal. It was produced by Charlton Pettus, Tears for Fears.

Tears for Fears profile →Everybody Loves a Happy Ending album →Track profile →

Contributors

Mark O’Donoughue— 70 credits as additional engineering →
Curt Smith— 256 credits as songwriter & producer →
Fred Eltringham— 390 credits as songwriter →
Charlton Pettus— 98 credits as songwriter & producer →
Roland Orzabal— 630 credits as songwriter & producer →
Charlton Pettus— 98 credits as songwriter & producer →
Curt Smith— 256 credits as songwriter & producer →

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