This song is one the few Tears for Fears songs from the 80s that has a writing credit for Curt Smith (alongside Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley and producer Chris Hughes). The sample heard is a shipping forecast, read by Brian Perkins of BBC Radio 4 and goes as follows: There are warnings of gales in Viking, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Fisher, Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth, Finisterre, Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Shannon, Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, Fair Isle, Faroes and Southeast Iceland.

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