Background
The song is a pastiche of The Beatles and was produced in a style reminiscent of their late 1960s output. The song was written in 1987, during the week of the 1987 General Election in the UK, in which Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher won her third term in office. The election prompted Roland Orzabal who comes from a working class background to take an interest in politics and socialism, and at the time of its release, he considered this to be the most overtly political song that Tears For Fears had ever recorded. The song's title was inspired by a radio programme that Orzabal had heard at the time about a man who was putting together a collection of traditional English folk songs. One of the more obscure songs was called "The Seeds of Love" which he had learned about from a gardener called Mr. England (reflected in the lyric "Mr England sowing the seeds of love").
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