How Paul Simon influenced Mad World

I would never have put Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years as a thematic cousin — let alone a direct link — to Tears for Fears' Mad World. 

Yet, there it is. In this Dutch program, Roland Orzabal talks about the Paul Simon classic, and how its perspective is exactly what he was trying to express as someone who watched the world go by through a window. 

And ... huh.