One of my favorites off of Ten Summoner's Tales. This song was only found in international copies (I own the Japanese version, as well as an American copy). However, I first heard it on the CD single for If I Ever Lose My Faith In You. There was another song on there that had the same exact backing track but different vocals titled January Stars. How unfortunate that these songs don't get any attention from Sting. I've seen him play other songs while he was doing the Ten Summoner's Tales tours, but he never seemed to play this one.
I think this song is about a male and female character in a relationship. However, the male character's friends are laughing at him, telling him that the relationship won't work out. It got so bad that the male character's "friends" stopped talking to him because he refused to believe what they were saying.
In the Japanese booklet, it explains some of the lyrics throughout the album. In this song, it only talks about the 'cost the moon' lyric, which means that the male character's 'friends' said she was going to have him spend an 'astronomical' (large/ridiculous) amount of money on her, to which he replies (ironically?) "We'll be there soon." as if that was true.
So maybe the song is about a woman who is in fact manipulating this man, and his friends left him because he didn't heed their advice. But this woman is so attractive to him, or something of that matter, that he can't muster up the courage to end the relationship. Just my take on it.
One of my favorites off of Ten Summoner's Tales. This song was only found in international copies (I own the Japanese version, as well as an American copy). However, I first heard it on the CD single for If I Ever Lose My Faith In You. There was another song on there that had the same exact backing track but different vocals titled January Stars. How unfortunate that these songs don't get any attention from Sting. I've seen him play other songs while he was doing the Ten Summoner's Tales tours, but he never seemed to play this one.
I think this song is about a male and female character in a relationship. However, the male character's friends are laughing at him, telling him that the relationship won't work out. It got so bad that the male character's "friends" stopped talking to him because he refused to believe what they were saying. In the Japanese booklet, it explains some of the lyrics throughout the album. In this song, it only talks about the 'cost the moon' lyric, which means that the male character's 'friends' said she was going to have him spend an 'astronomical' (large/ridiculous) amount of money on her, to which he replies (ironically?) "We'll be there soon." as if that was true.
So maybe the song is about a woman who is in fact manipulating this man, and his friends left him because he didn't heed their advice. But this woman is so attractive to him, or something of that matter, that he can't muster up the courage to end the relationship. Just my take on it.