{"id":7910,"date":"2012-05-31T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2012-05-31T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:54:21","slug":"the-working-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/05\/the-working-hour.html","title":{"rendered":"The Working Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Just as there is a lot of great orchestral, symphonic and chamber music that deserves to be more widely know, there are a lot of songs by well-known (and not so well known) artists on their albums but which were never released as singles, and so are not as widely known as they perhaps deserve to be. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wNd4RaOAo_4&amp;feature=related\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here\u2019s one example: \u201cThe Working Hour\u201d by Tears for Fears, from their album <em>Songs from the Big Chair<\/em><\/a> which included hits like \u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World,\u201d \u201cHead Over Heels\u201d and \u201cShout.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tears for Fears - The Working Hour\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOY_aqkUTxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wNd4RaOAo_4&amp;feature=related\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here\u2019s a link to a video of a live version of the song<\/a>. It has some great lyrics \u2013 for instance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These things<\/p>\n<p>That I\u2019ve<\/p>\n<p>Been told<\/p>\n<p>Can rearrange<\/p>\n<p>My world<\/p>\n<p>My doubt<\/p>\n<p>In time<\/p>\n<p>But inside out<\/p>\n<p>This is the working hour<\/p>\n<p>We are paid by those who learn by our mistake\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And fear is such a vicious thing<\/p>\n<p>It wraps me up in chains<\/p>\n<p>Find out<\/p>\n<p>Find out<\/p>\n<p>What this fear is about<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as there is a lot of great orchestral, symphonic and chamber music that deserves to be more widely know, there are a lot of songs by well-known (and not so well known) artists on their albums but which were never released as singles, and so are not as widely known as they perhaps deserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[2819,6808,9734,12311],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-doubt","tag-lyrics","tag-psychology","tag-tears-for-fears"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Working Hour<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just as there is a lot of great orchestral, symphonic and chamber music that deserves to be more widely know, there are a lot of songs by well-known (and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/05\/the-working-hour.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Working Hour\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just as there is a lot of great orchestral, symphonic and chamber music that deserves to be more widely know, there are a lot of songs by well-known (and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/05\/the-working-hour.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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