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Who sang Driven To Tears?

Release date: 1980

Duration: 03:21

The Police released the song Driven To Tears. Date of release: 1980.

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The protagonist asks the question of responsibility in the face of an atrocity. He feels ashamed and helpless when he sees innocent people suffering and being neglected. He wonders what he can do to make things better, but he feels powerless. The chorus repeats that he is "driven to tears" by the situation.

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The Police - Short Biography

The Police are an influential English rock band formed in 1977 with Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland as their core members. Their unique blend of punk, reggae and jazz propelled them to international fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The band played an important role in the British new wave scene and left a lasting impact on the music industry, having sold over 75 million records worldwide.

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"Driven to Tears" is a song written by Sting and released by The Police on their 1980 album Zenyatta Mondatta. Although it was not released as a single, the song reached #35 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song has political overtones that mark the beginning of the political activism that would be recurrent in the later music of Sting and The Police. On classic rock radio stations, the song is often followed immediately by "When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around".

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