"Tenderness" is a song by English new wave band General Public, released as a single in May 1984 from their debut studio album All the Rage (1984) by I.R.S.

The song's lyrics tell about a man who really needs tenderness to feel like a man.

The single cover of the extended versions has a sentence reading "words like conviction can turn into a sentence".

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