
Everybody Loves a Happy Ending is the sixth studio album by English pop rock band Tears for Fears, released on September 14, 2004 in the United States and on March 5, 2005 in the United Kingdom and Europe. It was released nine years after the previous Tears for Fears studio album, Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995), and was the band’s first album since 1989’s The Seeds of Love to be recorded as a duo, as Curt Smith returned to the band.
- “Everybody Loves a Happy Ending” 4:21
- “Closest Thing to Heaven” 3:36
- “Call Me Mellow” 3:39
- “Size of Sorrow” 4:43
- “Who Killed Tangerine?” 5:33
- “Quiet Ones” 4:22
- “Who You Are” 3:41
- “The Devil” 3:30
- “Secret World” 5:12
- “Killing with Kindness” 5:25
- “Ladybird” 4:50
- “Last Days on Earth” 5:41
- “Pullin’ a Cloud” 2:48
- “Out of Control” 5:08
Roland Orzabal – lead vocals, keyboards, guitars
Curt Smith – keyboards, bass, backing vocals, lead vocals (4, 7)
Charlton Pettus – keyboards, guitars
Kenny Siegal – guitars (4), backing vocals (5)
Fred Eltringham – drums (1, 3-12)
Brian Geltner – drums (4)
Joel Peskin – baritone saxophone (9), tenor saxophone (9)
Steve Kujala – flute (9)
Rick Baptist – trumpet (1)
Gary Grant – trumpet, flugelhorn (9)
David Washburn – trumpet, flugelhorn (9)
Alexander Giglio – backing vocals (5)
Gwen Snyder – backing vocals (5)
Laura Gray – crowd vocals (5)
Julian Orzabal – crowd vocals (5)
Paul Buckmaster – arrangements and conductor