Squeezewas a British rock music band that came to prominence in the new waveperiod of the late 1970s. The group formed in London in 1974. The two main writing partners in the band, Chris Diffordand Glenn Tilbrook, are widely considered to be among the finest melodic pop songwriters of their generation and have often been compared with the legendary Lennon-McCartney partnership, although unlike The Beatles, Difford and Tilbrook's direct collaboration on songs continued through most of the group's career. The original lineup of the band also included pianist Jools Holland, who went on to become a popular solo artist and bandleader, and is now best known as the host of the critically-acclaimed and highly successful British music TV show Later with Jools Holland. Squeeze's lineup in the 1980s also featured the lead vocals of Paul Carrack, who was also one of the lead singers of Mike & The Mechanicsas well as a solo artist.
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Heartbreaking World Lyrics
Squeeze
(difford/holland)
The saddest thing Ive ever seen
Was a starving face on my tv screen
The desperate face that I saw
Had my disbelief hanging from my jaw
Our harvest could be shared around
Instead its buried in the ground
The saddest thing Ive ever seen
Was a football fan dying for his team
The toughest thing I have ever known
Was a soldier boy who never made it home
Its fiction live before our eyes
It leaves me cold and my heart cries
The greatest thing Ive ever seen
Was a newborn child looking up at me
The greatest sound Ive ever heard
Was a babys cry in this wicked world
The innocence of that cry
Leaves me cold and my heart cries
Its a heartbreaking world if you want it to be
Its a heartbreaking world if you want it to be
Its a heartbreaking world if you want it to be
And youre the one that breaks it for me