Genius Meanings
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The Police – Every Breath You Take
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“Every Breath You Take” is, to this day, still perceived to be a love song. However, the lyrics are actually spoken from a character with sinister intent. During the time Sting
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The Police – Tea In The Sahara (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
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[Verse 1] / My sisters and I / Have one 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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The Police – King of Pain
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According to Sting, while spending time in Jamaica with his love interest and future wife, Trudie Styler, Sting noticed sunspot activity and the ensuing conversation developed the
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The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
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[Verse 1] / You consider me the young apprentice / Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis / Hypnotized by you if I should linger / Staring at the ring around your finger / I have
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The Police – Murder by Numbers
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Though originally the B-side to the Every Breath You Take single, track eleven of 1983’s Synchronicity was added to the CD and cassette versions to pad out the timing. While
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The Police – I Burn for You
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Now that I have found you / In the coolth of your evening smile / The shade of your parasol / And your love flows through me / Though I drink at your pool / I burn for you / I burn
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The Police – O My God
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One of the closest links to the older Police sound on 1983’s Synchronicity, track three incorporates lyrics from two earlier Police songs, “Three o' Clock Shit” (which was never
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The Police – Goodbye Tomorrow
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Only one that I can see / Is holding out the hand of love to me / Shall I wait for another day / See the strangers on their way / In and out of shadow land / Only you can
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The Police – Synchronicity I
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The opening track of The Police’s blockbuster 1983 album Synchronicity starts with a repeating synthesizer riff. From there it’s a cavalcade of theoretical concepts on the
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The Police – Rock and Roll Music
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Rock and roll music / Any old time you use it / It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it / Any old time you use it / Gotta be rock and roll music / If you wanna dance with me / If
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The Police – Synchronicity II
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“Synchronicity II”, the third single from 1983’s Synchronicity, presents a scenario that illustrates the philosophy developed by Carl Jung in where he defines synchronicity as “a
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The Police – Walking in Your Footsteps
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Track two of 1983’s Synchronicity continues the use of synths as a major harmonic element, but this time they follow a tribal groove. Police drummer Stewart Copeland adds to the
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The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger
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“Wrapped Around Your Finger” is the second UK and fourth US single from the 1983 blockbuster album Synchronicity. It is another observation on control and the empowered protégé
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The Police – Mother
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Composed by guitarist Andy Summers, “Mother” is track four on 1983’s Synchronicity. Featuring lyrics focused on a character’s portrayal of an overbearing mother and the resulting
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The Police – Loch
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[Instrumental]
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The Police – Miss Gradenko
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The last of Stewart Copeland’s writing contributions to The Police, “Miss Grandenko” is track four of 1983’s Synchronicity. Admittedly about “forbidden love and a totalitarian
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The Police – Someone to Talk To
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Though it's me that's on fire not this cigarette / I was stabbed in the back by that young suffragette / And what do I care if she leaves me alone / If I need somebody I'll pick up
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The Police – Once Upon a Daydream
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Once upon a daydream / I fell in love with you / Once upon a moonbeam / I gave that love to you / Once upon a lifetime / I knew it must be true / When the months had turned us / I'
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The Police – Tea in the Sahara
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Sting, singer and main songwriter for The Police, has used many literary references in his songwriting, ranging from Nabokov to Jung. Track ten of 1983’s Synchronicity borrows
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vintagewashingmachine – Every Album I Listened To In 2021
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JANUARY / Total: 146 Albums / Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (1965) | January 1st / Nina Simone: Wild Is the Wind (1966) | January 1st / Frank Ocean: Blonde (2016) | January 1st
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Daryl Hall & John Oates – Say It Isn't So
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A single from their “Rock N Soul” Greatest hits album, this song peaked at number 2 back in 1983, having been held back from number one by the Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney
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Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart
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The only no. 1 hit of the ground breaking progressive rock group, by their 80’s reincarnation.
From their 1983 multi-platinum studio album 90125, for which the group reformed
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Yes – Leave It
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This song was written during the time when the band was officially broken up. It therefore is one of the few songs that does not have singer Jon Anderson as a songwriter.
It is
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The Police – Truth Hits Everybody
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[Intro] / Woah / Woah / Woah / [Verse 1] / Sleep lay behind me like a broken ocean / Strange waking dreams before my eyes unfold / You lay there sleeping like an open doorway / I
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The Police – De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
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The 1980 hit (both in the US and UK) that despite the nonsensical title, has very poetic lyrics to explain why simple lyrics are needed.
From the 1980 very successful album
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The Police – Message in a Bottle
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“Message in a Bottle” is the first track and Grammy Award-winning single off of The Police’s second album Regatta de Blanc.
At the start, the song explores themes of being stuck
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