This is one of my favorite songs and it still gives me chills to this day. Anyway, just started this thread for anyone who wants to chat about it.

purplegypsy said:

I love how everyone believes this song is a love song, when it's actually about a stalker.

It's a sinister song and I lub it even thoug I cant sit thru it now. Simple chord etc but its the simnplicity that made it ...brilliant?

VoicesCarry said:

I KNOW!!! I hear people played it at their weddings!! How funny! Sting said on VH-1's Behind the Music he wrote it when he and his first wife split.

purplegypsy said:

Lol, half of all marriages end in divorce. Coincidentally, half of all wedding songs are either "I Will Always Love You" (breakup song) or "Every Breath You Take" (stalker song). Coincidence...or conspiracy?

I'm big fan of this song precisely because it's a stalker song dressed up like a love song. It's just so beautiful. I absolutely HATE, however, P. Diddy's "I'll be missing you". yuck. What a great way to destroy a wonderful song.

Since you've gone I been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but it's you I can't replace
I keep crying baby, baby, pleeeaaase

One of the best bridges of all time.

Sting was GREAT with the Police.

VinaBlue said:

that's EXACTLY the part I was singing in my head as i read this.

madartista said:

VinaBlue said:

They were such a band-I am at a loss for words-I love Sting so much but I wish his ego never got in the way...after all these years I yearn for a reunion tour...will never happen.

Outlandos D'AMour (did I spell that wrong) and Regatta De Blanc, then Syncronicity are my favorite Police Cds.

I'm fed up with all Police's hits at the exceptions of those of Ghost In The Machine
On Synchronicity, Tea In The Sahara is still pure bliss for me

It is one of the most overplayed songs in history , right up there with "Stairway to Heaven", "Freebird","Losing My Religion"and "I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For"

MrTation said:

uh...talk about overplayed...tat song by Train with the "fried Chicken-tai-bo" line in it--


Yes every breath was overplayed at its time--but i never got sick of it and I love the video-actually i love most of godley and creme's work.

The stalkers anthem, for sure! I liked it, though.

I wrote a paper in English class in college using that song compared to "If I Can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman about love and rejection and how people handle losing that love, which in both cases wouldn't be too well. The extremes that people will go to hold on to a relationship and not move on. Man I wrote that 10 years ago. It's a classic hands down. I couldn't believe it when I first heard that it was being used at weddings. Imagine that being the first song that a newlywed danced to. "This is our song. It speaks about the love that we have for each other..."

I LOVE Sting and the Police! This song is like the perfect pop song. It's catchy as hell, has all sorts of different meanings lyrically, and it's a musicianly take on something that could have just as easily been another "Stand By Me" type song (not that I dont' dig Stand By Me!)