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Sting – Driven to Tears (1986) | Track profile | Dork

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Sting
Bring on the Night
Driven to Tears

TRACK

Driven to Tears

Release date: 1st July 1986

From Bring on the Night

About This Track

"Driven to Tears" is a track by Sting, from the album Bring on the Night, released 1st July 1986. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Sting.

About the Artist

Sting

Sting

Lyrics

Driven to Tears

[Verse 1]

How can you say that you're not responsible?

What does it have to do with me?

What is my reaction, what should it be?

Confronted by this latest atrocity

[Chorus]

Driven to tears

[Verse 2]

Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party

Seems that when some innocent die

All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine

Too many cameras and not enough food

Because this is what we've seen

[Chorus]

[Bridge]

Protest is futile, nothing seems to get through

What's to become of our world, who knows what to do

[Chorus]

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Bring on the Night

1986

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Album

Bring on the Night

Release year

1986

—Moon over bourbon street (Live in Arnhem)
—Tea in the Sahara (Live in Arnhem)
—The Dream of the Blue Turtles / Demolition Man (Live in Paris)
—Children's Crusade (Live in Arnhem)
—Driven to Tears
—Another Day (Live in Rome, 1985)
—When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
—I burn for you (Live in Paris)
—Bring On The Night / When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's (Still Around)
—Down so long (Live in Paris)
—Low Life
—One World (Not Three)

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Writer: Sting
Producer: Kim Turner, Sting