The Tipping Point - Tears for Fears

The End of Night

We now have the album release on 02/25/22. The only song I thought was inveighing anything that might relate to the narrative was "End of Night", because "mistral" is a northwest wind, and "hurricane" provides a simile that geolocates somewhat. Also rebirth/awakening happens through a mighty sound (which in this instance includes thunder occurring overhead as a spiral), the song's subject is led by a woman who exists in the sound, and she leads him though the "labyrinth", which is the book's title. She exhorts him to produce music. Rebirth is accomplished by showing him the interior world of the mind (turning away from observing the outer world collapse), and this transformation harkens the end of night. So the song accords with the application (music), the book's title, and the last entry in the narrative, that of a very severe northwest windstorm heavy with lightning and thunder that put the whole North American Southeast in a vice grip (with Texas obliterated by icestorms). If it is taken in that aspect, it reflects transformation from an interior epiphany experienced by the woman, shifting from her own interior epiphany to a transformation that in turn affects others. A song like this can provide an anchoring theme for other tracks, (if the context of the narrative is applied, namely "Secret Location" - "It's crazy when the lights, they shine on you", "Shame (Cry Heaven" ("I've had it beyond up to here with secrets!" - this is the same issue addressed from the "other side", the male aspect), "Long, Long, Long Time" (27 years), and "Rivers of Mercy", giving weighted meaning to the "infinite sea" (the "Universal" definition) and allying it with "manna from heaven". 

I have updated the Tears for Fears page to reflect this and put the lyrics for “End of Night” at the bottom.