 Genius Lyrics
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Sting – Russians
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“Russians”, the fourth single from The Dream of the Blue Turtles, reached the top 30 in nine countries in early 1986 including a #16 US and #12 UK peak. It remained his highest-
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Sting – Russians [Live in Berlin]
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[Couplet 1] / In Europe and America, there's a growing feeling of hysteria / Conditioned to respond to all the threats / In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets / Mr. Krushchev
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The Foreshadowing – Russians
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In Europe and in America / There's a growing feeling of hysteria / Conditioned to respond to all the threats / In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets / Mister Krushchev says, "
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Big Sky – Strange Room
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My cowboy boots and a coat of black leather / Walking down the street I'm feeling better / Seems like it's been so long ago / That I felt like I had somewhere to go / Out here
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Sting – Another Day
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[Verse 1] / Every day that goes by / A new hungry baby starts to cry / Born astride a painful grave / Drowned in hunger's tidal wave / Pick a child that you can save / It'd be the
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Sting – Strange Fruit
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STING - STRANGE FRUIT (Billie Holiday) / Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root / Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze / Strange
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Sting – Murder By Numbers
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Written by Sting & Andy Summers / Once that you've decided on a killing / First you make a stone of your heart / And if you find that your hands are still willing / Then you can
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Sting – Fragile (Live At Villa Il Palagio, Italy/2001)
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[Introduction] / [Verse 1] / If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one / Drying in the colour of the evening Sun / Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away / Something in
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Sting – Rock Steady
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Sting:
A great uncle of mine who was a seafaring man once gave me the following advice “Never board a ship unless you know where it’s going”.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the game
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Sting (Ft. Jimmy Nail) – Underground River
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Jackie: / They say there’s an underground river / That none of us can see / And it flows through winding tunnels / On it’s way to a tideless sea / Jackie & Men: / And across that
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Blur – Russian Strings
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[Verse] / Where are you now? / Where are you now? / Are you coming back to us? / Are you online? / Are you contactable again? / Wear the blue lights / Wear the red dress / Puppet
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Sting – Moon Over Bourbon Street
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Sting:
Moon Over Bourbon Street was inspired by “Interview With A Vampire” by Anne Rice.
Source: Dream of the Blue Turtles liner notes.
The song is about a vampire who wants
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Sting – Love Is Stronger Than Justice
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Love is Stronger Than Just (The Munificent Seven) is the second track on Ten Summoner’s Tales. It was released as a single in some European countries, but little is known about the
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Sting – Low Life
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[Verse] / Fatal fascination for the seedy part of town / Walk down the street and your head spins round / Don't be seen alone without your friends at night / Take a gun or a knife
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Sting – Shadows in the Rain
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Sting covers his own song from Zenyatta Mondatta. This version plays a lot faster and is more jazzy.
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Sting – This Cowboy Song
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“This Cowboy Song” is the second of the two original songs released in Sting’s “Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984 – 1994” (the other is When We Dance). The song was recorded
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Sting – Spirits in the Material World (Live)
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[Verse 1] / There is no political solution / To our troubled evolution / Have no faith in constitution / There is no bloody revolution / [Chorus] / We are spirits in the material
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Sting – Dienda
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How like the fall / To be gone in a day / Just as the leaves had turned gold / I was drawn to the sound / That the wind carried down / From an open window pane / And oh, how like a
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Sting – Tea in the Sahara
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[Verse 1] / My sisters and i / Have this wish before we die / And it may sound strange / As if our minds are deranged / Please don't ask us why / Beneath the sheltering sky / We
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Sting – You Were Meant for Me
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Life was a song / You came along / I lay awake the whole night through / If I should dare / To think you care / This is what I'd say to you / You were meant for me / And I was
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Sting – And Yet
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The third track, and one of the singles from The Last Ship, And Yet is about Sting’s character in The Last Ship play, Gideon, returning to his home town.
While Gideon is not
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Chris Botti (Ft. Sting) – In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
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[Verse 1] / In the wee small hours of the morning / While the whole wide world is fast asleep / You lie awake and think about the girl / And never ever think of counting sheep / [
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Sting – Sacred Love
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[Verse] / Take off those working clothes / Put on these high heeled shoes / Don't want no preacher on the TV baby / Don't want to hear the news / Shut out the world behind us / Put
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Sting – Flow My Tears
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Flow my teares fall from your springs / Exilde for ever: let me morne / Where nights black bird hir sad infamy sings / There let me live forlorne / Downe vaine lights shine you no
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Sting (Ft. Brian Johnson, Jimmy Nail & Jo Lawry) – Shipyard [Deluxe Edition Bonus Track]
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Like most of the songs on the album, Shipyard talks about the challenges and difficulties working in the shipyard.
The people who worked at the shipyards not only worked hard, but
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Sting – She’s Too Good for Me
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The fifth track of Ten Summoner’s Tales, this song talks about a man whose wife/girlfriend only seems to like him for sex.
Sting may have possibly written the song in response to
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Sting (Ft. Vicente Amigo) – Send Your Love (Dave Audé Remix)
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Finding the world in the smallness of a grain of sand / And holding infinities in the palm of your hand / And Heaven's realms in the seedlings of this tiny flower / And eternities
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Sting (Ft. David Hartley (Composer)) – Big Lie, Small World
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[Verse 1] / I sat down and wrote this letter / Telling you that I felt better / Since you'd gone and I was free / I'm so happy / I have so little time to spare now / I'm wanted
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Sting – Lithium Sunset
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The final song on Mercury Falling, the song is country-themed much like I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying.
Sting:
A South American shaman told me that the human eye can’t filter
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Sting (Ft. GASHI) – Mama
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[Intro: GASHI] / Oh, mama / Oh, mama / [Verse 1: GASHI] / God shine a light on something / Demons tryna shoot me down, down, down, down / I keep fighting / My treasure is in Heaven
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Sting – Fragile (Live)
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[Intro] / Hang on / One, two, three, four / [Guitar Solo] / [Verse] / If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one / Drying in the color of the evening sun / Tomorrow's rain
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Sting – If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
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“If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” was also Sting’s first single in his solo career after disbanding The Police. It was written by Sting as an ‘antidote’ for “Every Breath You
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Sting – Fields of Gold [Live in Berlin]
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You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley / You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in fields of gold / So she took her love for to gaze
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Sting – Inshallah
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“Inshallah” is a beautiful Arabic word. Literally it means, “If it’s God’s will and then it shall be.” But also implies resignation, it implies humility, it implies hope, it
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