Next to You Lyrics
I can't stand it for another day
When you live so many miles away
Nothing here is gonna make me stay
You took me over, let me find a way
[Verse 2]
I sold my house, I sold my motor too
All I want is to be next to you
I'd rob a bank, maybe steal a plane
You took me over, think I'm going insane
[Chorus]
What can I do?
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do?
All I want is to be next to you
[Verse 3]
I've had a thousand girls or maybe more
But I've never felt like this before
But I just don't know what's come over me
You took me over, take a look at me
[Chorus]
What can I do?
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do?
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
[Verse 4]
So many times I used to give a sign
Got this feeling, gonna lose my mind
When all it is is just a love affair
You took me over baby, take me there
[Chorus]
What can I do?
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do?
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do?
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do?
All I want is to be next to you
[Outro]
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
All I want is to be next to you (What can I do?)
About
Written by Sting, “Next To You” is a hard driving love song that opens The Police’s 1978 debut album Outlandos d'Amour.
Quite appropriately, it was, to date, also the last song the trio has performed together, played at the final show of their 2008 reunion tour.
Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers originally felt the song’s lyrics weren’t ‘punk’ enough, but Summers' suggestion of “I’m gonna take a gun to you” was vetoed by Sting – who called it “essentially a love song”.
“Next To You” has been covered many times by artists like The Offspring, Anthrax, Supergrass and Ednaswap.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
In a 2000 interview with Revolver, the band discussed “Next To You”:
Stewart Copeland: I remember our political discourse over Andy’s slide guitar part, which in my book was very ‘old wave’ bullshit…
Andy: But of course, I still get letters to this day about that brilliant slide guitar solo.
Sting: All this brings up a memory you two probably won’t like. Next To You is essentially a love song. However it was written during the height of punk, and Andy and Stewart complained it wasn’t political enough. So I said, “Okay, go and write some lyrics.” Andy came up with “I’m going to take a gun to you”.
Stewart Copeland (sings): “Gun to you, gun to you, all I want is to take a gun to you!” That would have been great. Why didn’t we do that?
Sting: Because I vetoed it. The truth is, we liked the energy of punk, but we couldn’t really be a part of it. One of our problems was we were quite good at playing our instruments – that was definitely a handicap. You were supposed to have just come off the streets, having never played a bass or sang before.
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