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Voices inside my head
Echoes of things that you said
Voices inside my head
Echoes of things that you said
Voices inside my head
Echoes of things that you said
Voices inside my head
Echoes of things that you said
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Nobody has a comment for this song!? This song has been heavily sampled by hip-hop and R&B. It also left out the repeated "Jump! Jump! Jump!" chorus in the background.

It's about a guy who's girlfriend broke up with him and he's ready to commit suicide.

@dengeist I think the word is "ja" which gets shouted in other police songs. (I think it's a reggae thing)

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Creepy song! But a good one, none the less.

Cover art for Voices Inside My Head lyrics by Police, The

Ferlinghetti

Constantly risking whenever she performs Above the heads of her audience The poet, like an acrobat, Climbs on rhyme to a high wire and balancing On light beams above a sea of faces Paces her way to the other side of day Performing entrechats and sleight of foot tricks And other high theatrics I? Forget love? Not a chance.

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Here even experts can hardly see clear The women are men—the men are women here Young men are dancing with zest In evening dress, with rubber breast While talking in soprano—the women wear tuxedoes And talk like Santa Claus While lighting big Havanas

If we had won—then everyone Would be a soldier The entire land would be run by goon and gun And all around, would be barbed wire Then reason would be kept in fetters Accused and always on the spot And wars would come—like operettas If we had won the last war But we were in luck—and we did not

What good is it to have seen much such folly And for what—are these endlessly many And no two, the same What good to us—is all this And these games …

This life is gay! Isn’t it sweet, ding dong?

[paraphrased]

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Anyway, back to the album in question. It is dang near perfect. The main distinction from the past is in that the band has included quite a few instrumentals this time - perhaps it was due to the record being 'rushed', as they said, but then again, it seems like every early Police album was 'rushed', so I wouldn't know. These four instrumentals get bashed a lot, but personally, I consider them unique, idiosyncratic, innovative and atmospheric. At least the first three. 'Voices Inside My Head' is based upon a classic echoey Summers riff, while Sting counterpoints it with an equally impressive bassline and Mr Copeland is there as usual with all his tremendous fills. The song matches its title perfectly, particularly when Sting begins chanting the title somewhere from up above, and the band's dreadful 'CHA! CHA! CHA!' used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid. [George Starostin]