Peanuts Lyrics
You're not the same
Your famous name
The price of fame
Try to liberate me
I said oh no
Stay and irritate me
I said oh no
Try to elevate me
I said oh no
Just a fallen hero
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking
For much too long
The songs they're wrong
The bread has gone
Try to liberate me
I said oh no
Stay and irritate me
I said oh no
Try to elevate me
I said oh no
Just a fallen hero
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking
You're not the same
Your famous name
The price of fame
Try to liberate me
I said oh no
Stay and irritate me
I said oh no
Try to elevate me
I said oh no
Just a fallen hero
Ah, you're just a fallen hero
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking
Peanuts
Peanuts
Oh, no no
Oh, no no
Oh, no no
Oh, no no

In 1985 Sting moderated his comments about "Peanuts": "I've lived the life I was lambasting. Now I see it differently. I was a fan of Rod Stewart. I loved his voice. He was a great showman. And I could see him decaying as an image. I was very resentful of that. I wrote that song as a fan. Having now lived the life of a pop star, and sometimes a decadent pop star, I see how easy it is to fall into that trap and also how easy it is to throw stones. [...] I'm no longer in that business of throwing stones, and that song's not about Rod Stewart anymore." (Bill Flanagan: Written in my soul. Contemporary Books. 1987.)

“Is 'Peanuts' directed to a particular person?" I mumbled, wedged between Sting and drummer Stewart Copeland in the Paradise's historic dressing room.
"Yes."
"Who?"
Sting paused for a moment and looked don at my tape recorders, which he was holding, then looked up at me again. "Rod Stewart. I used to be such a big fan of his. Great singer. But then... something happened to him. I guess around the time he started with Britt Ekland." The singer wasn't being gossipy or assertive. He seemed really saddened by Rod's corruption and added, "I hope I don't end up like that."
The NewPaper Police lock up Paradise... Interview Date: April 1979

The fallen hero in question being Rod Stewart.

Really? Ant to think that years later, in '92, they sang together, with Brian Adams ("All for love" - great song, especially the bass, 'cause Sting played it ^.^)
There is an onion article about that very thing:
There is an onion article about that very thing:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/you-know-i-used-to-be-kind-of-cool-once,10932/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/you-know-i-used-to-be-kind-of-cool-once,10932/

Maybe one or two songs on here don't stand out as much as the rest, but that only serves to highlight the majority of the other songs. And while we're at it, other "fast rockers" here include the hilarious playful 'Peanuts', with a head-spinning refrain and a lightning-speed guitar solo from former Animal Andy Summers... before the song suddenly does an avant-gardish twist and includes a weird dissonant sax solo, after which comes back to normal. [George Starostin]

What an odd title for a song like this...