De Amerikaanse singer/songwriter Oleta Adams werd in 1985 ontdekt door Roland Orzabal & Curt Smith, de oprichters van de Engelse groep Tears For Fears, toen ze optrad in een hotelbar in Kansas City. Zo kwam het dat ze van 1987 tot 1990 in de band ging spelen als pianiste en zangeres. Het prachtige duet Woman In Chains was een grote hit voor de band in 1989 en wordt hier gespeeld tijdens een live concert op de Franse televisie in 1995.

Woman In Chains
You better love loving and you better behave.
You better love loving and you better behave.
Woman in chains, woman in chains.

Calls her man the great white hope.
Says she’s fine, she’ll always cope.
Woman in chains, woman in chains.

Well, I feel lying and waiting is a poor man’s deal.
And I feel hopelessly weighed down by your eyes of steel.
Well it’s a world gone crazy keeps woman in chains.
Woman in chains, woman in chains.

Trades her soul as skin and bones.
(You better love loving and you better behave).
Sells the only thing she owns.
(You better love loving and you better behave).
Men of stone, men of stone.

Well, I feel deep in your heart there are wounds time can’t heal.
And I feel somebody somewhere is trying to breathe.
Well, you know what I mean.
It’s a world gone crazy keeps woman in chains.

It’s under my skin but out of my hands.
I’ll tear it apart (somebody somewhere is trying).
But I won’t understand (to breathe).
I will not accept the greatness of man.
Gone crazy keeps woman in chains.

So free her, so free her, so free her.
So free her, so free her (the sun and the moon).
So free (the wind and the rain) her, so free her.