Pharaohs

Tears for Fears * Track #15 On Songs from the Big Chair

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Album Songs from the Big Chair

ALBUM

Tears for Fears

1985

Pharaohs by Tears for Fears

Release Date

Thu Mar 14 1985

Performed by

Tears for Fears

About

The sample heard in this instrumental is a shipping forecast for sea lanes around Britain, read by Bryan Perkins of BBC Radio. The attentive ear will notice similarities between this and it’s A-Side, Everybody wants to rule the world.

Pharaohs Lyrics

[Sample]
"There are warnings of gales in Viking, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Fisher, Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth, Finisterre, Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Shannon, Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, Fair Isle, Faeroes and Southeast Iceland."

[Interlude]

[Sample]
"The general synopsis at one-eight-double-o: low just north of Viking, nine double seven, moving steadily east-northeast. Low 300 miles south of Iceland."

[Sample]
"Atlantic low forming, moving steadily northeast."

[Interlude]

[Sample]
"A ridge of high pressure has swayed between North and South Utsire. The area forecast for the next twenty-four hours. Viking, Forties, Cromarty, Forth."

Pharaohs Q&A

Who wrote Pharaohs's ?

Pharaohs was written by Roland Orzabal & Ian Stanley & Chris Hughes & Curt Smith.