Mad World Chords & Tabs

by Tears For Fears

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Pattern 1:
BPM: 118
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 101, 1, 202, 1, 101, 202, 101]
Mad World - Tears For Fears
Hey, I have changed the key of this piece a minor third up from where it's
usually written as. It's easier to play and I personally find it easier to sing to...

[Verse 1]
Am                  C           
All around me are familiar faces
G                D             
Worn out places, worn out faces
Am                         C          
Bright and early for their daily races
G              D            
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Am                          C               
And their tears are filling up their glasses
G              D            
No expression, no expression
Am                      C              
Hide my head; I want to drown my sorrow
G            D          
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

[Chorus]
Am                    D    
And I find it kind of funny
                  Am 
I find it kind of sad
                        D    
The dreams in which I'm dying
                       Am 
Are the best I've ever had
                  D        
I find it hard to tell you,
                         Am  
'cause I find it hard to take
                   D                           
When people run in circles it's a very, very...
Am CD    
Mad world
Am CD    
Mad world
Am CD    
Mad world
Am CD    
Mad world

[Verse 2]
Am                       C                 
Children waiting for the day they feel good
G               D             
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Am                        C                 
Made to feel the way that every child should
G               D             
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Am                       C           
Went to school and I was very nervous
G               D             
No one knew me, no one knew me
Am                     C                
Hello, teacher tell me what's my lesson?
G                      D                    
Look right through me, look right through me

[Chorus]
Am                    D    
And I find it kind of funny
                  Am 
I find it kind of sad
                        D    
The dreams in which I'm dying
                       Am 
Are the best I've ever had
                  D        
I find it hard to tell you,
                         Am  
'cause I find it hard to take
                   D                           
When people run in circles it's a very, very...
Am CD    
Mad world
Am CD    
Mad world
Am CD    
Mad world
Am CD    
Mad world

[Instrumental]
| D    | D    | D    |
| Am   | C    | G    | D    |
| Am   | C    | G    | D    |

[Chorus]
Am                    D    
And I find it kind of funny
                  Am 
I find it kind of sad
                        D    
The dreams in which I'm dying
                       Am 
Are the best I've ever had
                  D        
I find it hard to tell you,
                         Am  
'cause I find it hard to take
                   D                           
When people run in circles it's a very, very...
Am CD    
Mad world
Am CD    
Mad world
Am C   D       
Halargian world
Am CD    
Mad world
(At the end here, on the last 'world' I like to finish on A (major) chord instead
of D, I feel it ends the piece better and sounds more meaningful... but that's just me!)