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The Police - Driven To Tear
The Police - Driven To Tears


The Police - Driven To Tears Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Zenyatta Mondatta
Released: 1980

Driven To Tears Lyrics


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

Driven To Tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears

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
'Cause this is what we've seen

Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears

Protest is futile, nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world, who knows what to do

Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears

Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears, driven to tears

Writer/s: Sumner, Gordon Matthew
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Sting wrote this in 1979 after seeing television reports of starving children.
  • Written in a motel while The Police were on their second American tour. Sting thinks this is the only song he ever wrote on the road.
  • Sting: "What are you left with when you're faced with atrocities? All you can do is cry."
  • The Police played this when they toured Australia in 1980, a few months before they recorded it.
  • Sting played this at Live Aid in 1985. The concert was a benefit organized by Bob Geldof to help starving children in Africa. This was a very appropriate song for the occasion.
  • A version from Sting's first solo tour is on his 1986 album Bring On The Night. It was recorded in Paris.
  • A live version by The Police is on their compilation album Message In A Box.
  • A 1980 performance by The Police was used in the British documentary Urgh! A Music War, which featured Punk and New Wave bands like Wall Of Voodoo, XTC and Devo.
  • Sting performed this on the charity telethon, Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, which was held on January 22, 2010. He was backed by American hip hop band the Roots, and trumpeter Chris Botti.
  • Sting performed this at the Live 8 concert in London in 2005. He recalled in Lyrics By Sting: "It seemed as relevant to me then as it was a quarter of a century ago. Biafra, Darfur ... the issues surrounding genocide are the same, and I wonder if we are making any progress at all, or are we now totally immune to the images of horror that appear daily, everywhere we turn?"