| Fall Out Boy – Roxanne (The Police cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Red light refers to a lot a medieval practice. Back then, a red lamp would hang from above a... harlot house. That would mean they're 'open for business'. And this in turn comes from the tradition of the Rose. A harlot would hang a rose about the... business bed, because roses symbolize secrecy, so that would have been as saying "Your secret is safe". The red light, and general colour red, is a classic symbol of women who prostitute themselves. Sting is a master lyricist, and this song is a masterpiece in terms of Lyrics and Music. I love the original, and always will because it's the original, it's sung by my favorite band, and Sting's voice is lovely. But this version is also very, very good! Much more rock and punk in this one, and even the base is stronger. Patric does sound very good singing it, better than he does in almost every other song... Overall: Roxanne ROCKS! lol :P |
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| Sting – We Work The Black Seam Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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O.o I think I should have payed more attention to Chem class. Didn't understand a word you said, mate. lol What I do know is that this song simply sneds tingles as I hear it. It sounds fantastic! And if it weren't on such a politicla issue, it would be my favourite song. *nods* That's all I had to say :) |
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| Sting – Sister Moon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Hmm... sillybunny, you said "we usually see the moon’s face as male". Where? In Sting's songs? Cause it's always feminine in mythology. And I've always been a bit confused as to why sting chose that particular sonnet. It was sonnet 130, and basically talks about how William loved a woman completely, fully and purely, even though she was a very ugly lady. The whole piece is humorous, in a rude way. So, was Sting thinking of his mother or Trudie? Or was it a moment of madness/fun? I don't know. Anyway, this song does have a certain something that makes you love it, no matter what it's about: vampires, women, whatever. |
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| Fiction Plane – Listen To My Babe Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Sweet song! About love and being madly in love with someone. Almost a story as she dies in the end T.T |
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| Fiction Plane – Hate Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't think this song is quite straight forward. I mean, Joe (the lead and song writer) doesn't say that he or the band or etc "hate". It's probable a sarcastic song about racism and such. You know, war terorism; just plain hate. | |
| Fiction Plane – Everything will Never be OK Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ya, I'm with you on tha one. I mean, people may say "Everything will be fine, everything will be OK", but that's not quite true, 'cause there will always be something wrong. If it's not one thing, it's another. Kinda' depressing, though. Still a great song. |
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| Sting – Be Still My Beating Heart Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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OK, I promisse not to post at this song again, but I couldn't pass this out: I was just at Sting.com, and guess what "quote of the day" was on? "'Be Still My Beating Heart' is about trying to suppress emotion and trying to deny what's going on in your emotional life for the sake of your sanity. It's a very uptight song, but again some people thought it was very romantic. I don't think it's romantic. It's just the opposite of romantic." Well, there you have it. I AM SO SORY! I promisse not to bother you again! I'm out. lol |
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| Sting – Be Still My Beating Heart Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My wrong. Sting didn't come up with this expresion. It was a romantic female poet of the late 19th century, called Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. I found the poem in question too. It's called 'All One' "Be still, my beating heart, be still! There is no hope for thee to-night. The fading of the wintry light Has made a blackness of the hill. Be still, be still, my beating heart! For thee to-night there is no fear. The moon has risen white and clear, And we shall neither meet nor part." Looks like he realy liked this poem :) |
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| Sting – Something The Boy Said Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I like this song too. I think I may love it more than any other song on tha album (and there ARE some songs there, like "If I ever lose my faith in you","Fields of Gold","Shape of my Heart" or "Probable Me", which are awsome). There's just something about the instrumental part, the beat, that just catches you. It's so smooth and enchanting. Haunting, like most of Sting's songs. And indeed the visual immigery is fantastic. A bit creepy, but fantastic. | |
| The Police – Every Breath You Take Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I, for one, don't like this song as much as , say, "Wrapped around your finger" (don't get me wrong, I LOVE "Every breath you take", but I just can't connect to it that well, the whole stalking thing). And as for the "government" watching and stuff like that, 'cause that's what they say it's about... I see this song as more of a religius one. As in God watching, seing what we do and his "poor heart aches" seing the atrocitys and sins and etc. I'm not ridiculously religius, as in going to Church every Sunday ("You could say I lost my belief in the holy church"), or saying grace before dinner, but when this song comes at the radio or tv, I can't help but think "Oh, my. God saw what I did to mum's favourite napkin!" @_@ So it creeps me a bit to hear "I'll be watching you". So that's how I see it: a reigious song. |
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| Sting – Englishman In New York Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well... listening to the lyrichs, you might say it's a gay song ("See me walking down Fifth Avenue/A walking cane here at my side/I take it everywhere I walk/I'm an Englishman in New York." - Hmm; "It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile/Be yourself no matter what they say" - again, Hmm...), but such an interpretation is as wacky as MY interpretation of "Mad about you" (*stupid stupid stupid*). It MAY be about that, but in a larger field. It's a song about being an "alien", just as Sting himself put it. About belonging, but not quite. If you watch the video closly, you'll see a sort of body language Sting is posting: crossed legs standing up, making a crooked cross if you will. That sign means "amongst stragers", if you study that part of psichology that deals with subliminal messages through the position of the body. So it's about being amongst strangers, not knowing anybody, not having friends around, etc. Sorry for the long coment. |
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| Sting – Saint Augustine In Hell Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Another funny song by the Stingster. I love how he describes hell: "Relax, have a cigar, make yourself at home. Hell is full of high court judges, failed saints. We've got Cardinals, Archbishops, barristers, certified accountants, music critics, they're all here. You're not alone, you're never alone. Not here you're not. Okay, break's over!" All in all a song of desire, and weekness in front of it. So what else in new? |
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| The Police – Born In The 50's Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's about his generaton, and how they felt about the world they were living in. A funny song. It always makes me laugh "My mother cried When president Kennedy died She said it was the Communists But I knew better ... And they laughed when the King fell down the stairs Oh they should've known better" I can't say I was born in the 50's, but I can relate to what this song says, because I always think "I know better". AND I DO :P |
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| The Police – Voices Inside My Head Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Creepy song! But a good one, none the less. | |
| The Police – Darkness Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's about being famous - to an extent - and being a singer, a song writer. "I can dream up schemes when I'm sitting in my seat" "Life was easy when it was boring " |
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| The Police – Peanuts Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| 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 ^.^) | |
| The Police – Mother Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Everybody hates this song! I don't, 'cause I'm a girl, but then again, I haven't heard it yet. Does it really sound that bad? | |
| The Police – Murder By Numbers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's odd. I mean, a band called "The Police", singing about killing "anybody else you find a bore", praising murder?! That's why I find this song very funny and ironic. I doubt I ever will anybody, lacking the nerve and tendency to commit a sin that would give me a one way ticket to hell after sleepy hour (how much fun I'd have down there!). Anyway, if I were to kill, I'd do it how they say in this song : "slip a tablet into someone's coffee". So stay on my good side! :-[) |
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| The Police – Roxanne Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Urgh! A Music War", you guys up there. Anyway, the thing with red lights. In the middle ages, prostitutes would put a red rose above the... bed. The rose symbolised a secret kept, like in "your secrets go no further". So what happened in that bed, stayed in that bed. The red rose became a symbol for prostitues, on ocasions (a more underground symbol). It was replaced with a red light hung over the houses where they... worked. So, ya, like you guys put it, they were open'! (nice choice of words, ei? Hi Hi! ^.^) |
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| The Police – Message In A Bottle Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song IS about feeling lonely, not connecting with anyone else, and just feeling like calling out to someone. As for the "hundred billion bottles", it's a symbolic number, that represents enormity. It's not like he would actually COUNT the bottles. All in all, it's a nice visual image: "Walked out this morning Don't believe what I saw A hundred billion bottles Washed upon the shore..." It's my fave. part of the song. That and the bass solo. The best I ever heard! |
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| The Police – Behind My Camel Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Ya, nothin' much about the lyrich here :). I heard the song though, and it reminds me of the desert soooo much. It would have been odd otherwise. | |
| Sting – Seven Days Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Ya, teardownthewall! I love those lines too. The whole song is incredibly funny. A true romantic comedy ^_^ | |
| Sting – Lithium Sunset Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The suspicion that he's bipolar came from an interview in which he stated that, during the Police days, he tried to kill himself on some ocasions. That could very well have been a joke, 'cause like you said sillybunny, he's a poet and talks literary in interviews. But I saw him on the list of celebs thought to have Bipolarity disorder. I got curious, and I stared paying atention to his behaviour and history. Youknow, I'm thinking of going to study psichology after highschool, so I thought it would be a good start, with Sting ^.^ From what I read about him, he most definetly has it (bipolarity). There are a few simptoms I'm not sure of, but I don't quite see him on a daily bassis. I've read what fans have written about meating him, and my suspicions were confiremed in high amounts. So I'm almost 100% sure he's bipolar (ALMOST). Sting said he wrote this song for all the people with bipolarity. Why the sudden interest? |
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| Sting – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The song of admiraton! A good one indeed :) | |
| Sting – Don't Stand So Close to Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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When I first heard this song, I didn't have much of an idea where it came from (inspirationally speaking), cause I didn't get that Nabokov part listening to it (no net back then, so no lyrichs). And when I later found out Sting used to be a teacher at a Girl school, I said "Well, no wonder". But I was a bit in shock ("He couldn't have! She must have been like, 15!") But I later reab an interview (yes, I had net, finally), and Sting denied having such an afair when a fan asked him about it. I was so relieved! :) |
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| Sting – You Were Meant for Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I heard this song last night, at 2.02 AM. As I was already in a bit of a nostalgic state, and "it's sad to say it, I had to say it", but I actually cried a little. I gues because, hearing it, I realised there's no one to say those word in the song to me *snif. Anyway, the piano was simply divine! And Sting's voice was so much softer than usual. Even if he didn't write this song, it's great! A jewel. |
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| Sting – The Soul Cages Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It has the same name as the album, and it reminds me of a picture, called "The Therapist" or something. What it says to me is that ones body is a cage, and the soul is like a bird. When we die, the cage opens and the bird flies away. Another great Sting metaphore :) |
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| Sting – Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I heard Sting said that this song is not about stealing cars at all (that's what my local radio said). Sting was supposed to have said that the car is a metaphore for love, and Love is stolen; the girl is somewhat the car. I can' fugure it out all that well. | |
| Sting – Heavy Cloud No Rain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's a very funny song! I mean "the king said hi to the guillotine" :D | |
| Sting – Ghost Story Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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About the simlicity of it, I have the impression, when reading it (cause I haven't yet been blessed with hearing it T.T) that the first halth is like a poem, and from the middle down, it becomes a song. Also, the first halth has more visual immigery (I watch the Western sky The sun is sinking The geese are flying South Another night in court The same old trial The same old questions asked The same denial The shadows close me round Like jury members I look for answers in The fire's embers ) ... and the second pare is more of a statement, with more pure emotion and has monologue. |
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| Sting – Be Still My Beating Heart Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't know who came up withthis expresion, but every once in a while you can hear people saying "be still my beating heart", using it as a saying. And everyone thinks of Sting. He might just have influenced the English language! | |
| Sting – When We Dance Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hey slagonia, I went through almost the same thing. Only that I heard the song on the radio, and right then thought "how great this would be if it were a book!". So I started writing. I imagined the action of the video of this song taking place in an old location, something like an Italian village or something, so the action in my book took place in Victorian London (1870 more exactly). How surprised I was to see an almost SF video. Oh, well. I never finished the book (it got deleted by a virus, it's a long story), but the main plot was about a murder realy ("Murder by numbers, 1 2 3" ^.^) |
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| Sting – King Of Pain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The "flag pole rag" reminds me of "beneath that tattered flag we made" from Fortres Around Your Heart - he probable took this motif from here. Byt, anyway, I heard he once said that he viewed this song with irony. Maybe I didn't see right when I read that, cause this song always gets me "driven to tears". I wish I could interpret it more in detail (like, every verse), cause it's all one mataphore after another, but I just can't brek through what he means generally. |
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| Sting – Fields of Gold Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| When I first heard the song I thought Sting was talking (well, singing) about his home town of Wallsend. Butthen I readwhat he and Trudie said about it in separate interviews : Trudie said the song reminded her of their (her's and Sting's) family, and Sting said (get this!) that all the song made him think of was peole making love in barley fields! He was kidding, right? | |
| Sting – Every Breath You Take Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I read in an interview that he wrote this song when he woke up from a dream. He didn't say what the dream was about though. | |
| Sting – Mad About You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is my very favourite! I listen to it almost every day. And I've come up with an interpretation to almost evey verse, but after reading what you guy's have posted... well, you've given me food for thought (very good with the David idea, rexbasior !). About his marriage, he married a year after, and only because his kids told him to. So he and Trudie took the vows 10 years after the started living together (aww... how sweet!) The album "Soul Cages" is, as Sting himself put it, and album about death, dedicated to his father passing away from cancer. But this soin doesn't seem to have much to do with death. Oh, well... like he said: we know "nothing 'bout him". Anyway, he's my interpretation of the song (brace yorself!): "A stones's throw from Jerusalem"- Close to salvation, to redemption. "I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight"- He was alone in his desperation. "And though a million stars were shining"- Multiple things that were intereSting, that could have caught his eye, that could have distracted him. "My heart was lost on a distant planet"- He loved someone who was as far as "a distant planet". "That whirls around the April moon"- He met her in the month of April one night? "Whirling in an arc of sadness"- She was sad, or their tale is a sad one because they're separated. ..... "Though all the kingdoms turn to sand"- All of his achevements and sucesses are rendered useless at the end of the day "And fall into the sea"- I have a feeling that water, and the sea in particular, represents emotion to Sting ("Be still my beating heart" is a great testemony to that), so he let his feelings get in the way of his work, either that or his work and career pale in comparisson to Love. ........ "And from the dark secluded valleys"- Again, the lonelyness he feels inside; or he's being tested by life, going through a hard time. "I heard the ancient songs of sadness"- Torment others had been through before him (I'm really not sure about this one, I have to think about it better) "But every step I thoght of you Every footstep only you..."- Not even the promisse of a tragic ending can frighten him out of losing his love. He uses the memory of his lady to give him strenght and motivation to advance towards whatever terible faith. "And every star a grain of sand"- The sky becomes a mirroir to the universe, and the universe finds its reflection on Earth / All small things are important, and all big things are non important, and so on viceversa. "The leavings of a dried up ocean"- Either the ocean represents emotion, and all that's left when emotion is dead is a desert land, meaning Love is all, ant there's nothing more vital than that. ........... "They say a city in the desert lies"- The city is a soul which is empty, it "lies in the desert". "The vanity of an ancient king"- Now this is really making me think about David, but before I read that interpretation I used to think the king was refference to the keeper of the city, the owner of the soul - the person had brought it uppon himself. "But the city lies in broken pieces"- Broken heart? "Where the wind howls and the vultures sing"- The wind is emptiness, like the soul, like the heart. And vultures are scavengers, that feed of the dead. The city is dead, totally and utterly. "These are the works of man"- Human beings have done the murer of the soul, through their wickedness and spite (lame interpretation, I know; but bare with me). "This is the sun of our ambition"- It what he (Sting) intends to do; to kill... or commit suicide of the soul. Or it's all he evere expects to achive. "With every prison blown to dust My enemies walk free"- He tries to cantain his "enemies", but fails, and feels surrounded by people who are against him. .... "Although I claim dominations over all I see"- He admits he's ambitioius... "It means nothing to me"- ...but knows that nothing can compare to Love and being with that special someone (lame the sequel, on my part of course.) .......... "And though you hold the keys to ruin Of everything I see"- He knows this Love can mean the end of him and his life and career and etc.etc.etc. "I'm mad about you I'm mad about you"- But he can't help being infatuated, he can't "still his beating heart". Lol! That was long! Anyways "words were hard to find". I don't expect it to be very precise. I mean, what does a 17 year old know about lyrichs interpretation, particulary Sting's (he's so philosofical and hard to crack). |
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