This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
I was blue and lonely
I couldn't sleep a wink
And I could only get unconscious
If I'd had to much to drink
There was somehow, something wrong somewhere
And each day seemed grey and dead
The seeds of desperation
Were growing in me head
I needed inspiration
A brand new start in life
Somewhere to place affection
But I didn't want a wife
And then by lucky chance I saw
In a special magazine
An ad that was unusual
The like I'd never seen
"Experience something different
With our new imported toy
She's loving, warm, inflatable
And a guarantee of joy"
She came all wrapped in cardboard
All pink and shriveled down
A breath of air was all she needed
To make her lose that frown
I took her to the bedroom
And pumped her with some life
And later in a moment
That girl became my wife
And so I sit her in the corner
And sometimes stroke her hair
And when I'm feeling naughty
I blow her up with air
She's cuddly and she's bouncy
She's like a rubber ball
I bounce her in the kitchen
And I bounce her in the hall
And now my life is different
Since Sally came my way
I wake up in the morning
And have her on a tray
She's everything they say she was
And I wear a permanent grin
And I only have to worry
In case my girl wears thin
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
I was blue and lonely
I couldn't sleep a wink
And I could only get unconscious
If I'd had to much to drink
There was somehow, something wrong somewhere
And each day seemed grey and dead
The seeds of desperation
Were growing in me head
I needed inspiration
A brand new start in life
Somewhere to place affection
But I didn't want a wife
And then by lucky chance I saw
In a special magazine
An ad that was unusual
The like I'd never seen
"Experience something different
With our new imported toy
She's loving, warm, inflatable
And a guarantee of joy"
She came all wrapped in cardboard
All pink and shriveled down
A breath of air was all she needed
To make her lose that frown
I took her to the bedroom
And pumped her with some life
And later in a moment
That girl became my wife
And so I sit her in the corner
And sometimes stroke her hair
And when I'm feeling naughty
I blow her up with air
She's cuddly and she's bouncy
She's like a rubber ball
I bounce her in the kitchen
And I bounce her in the hall
And now my life is different
Since Sally came my way
I wake up in the morning
And have her on a tray
She's everything they say she was
And I wear a permanent grin
And I only have to worry
In case my girl wears thin
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Be My Girl - Sally Lyrics as written by Andrew James Summers Gordon Sumner
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Great version of a great song,
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this song amuses me so much...
most definately, amusing. From the topic about the blow up girlfriend, being too drunk to perform, to the "speaker" beginning with I was blue and lonely... about his issues, and mostly what he can do with his girlfriend. Totally satisfied, happy, somewhere to place affection, love it!<br /> Clockwork Orangish
buttofmalmsey said it best....but they cover so much, really. I love this song, soooo funny, but catchy at the same time...will you be my girl will you be my girl. Stuart Copeland is awesome! Best drummer ever!
yall forgot, they also sing about stalking people!! (every breath you take)... its the stalker song, just listen to the lyrics!
I think the final verse actually ends with "in case my girl wears thin".
I love the contrast between the sung and spoken portions of the song. This is a rare vocal by Andy Summers. "Mother" on Synchronicity also has Andy on vocals and is also about a very sexually disturbed man.
… and 'Be My Girl - Sally', about Andy Summers falling in love with an inflatable doll (too much Bryan Ferry listening, Andy?), is hilarious as long as it's music, but I don't think the narrative interruption is funny at all. Experimental, maybe, but... eh... In all other respects, though, Outlandos D'Amour is really cool to listen to, and for many bands of the epoch it would have been a crowning masterpiece - it is nothing short of a miracle that the Police's next two records each improved on each other. Take this one as the band's Please Please Me. [George Starostin]
This song was also one of the highlights of the Police's early concerts. Believe it or not! :-D Andy Summers did have a taste for distasteful lyrics :-P Also: Friends (a song about cannibalism)!
I just love Andy's poem! This is the sweetest declaration of love to an inflatable doll of all time! : D OK, it's the only declaration to a doll I know, but still, I don't think anyone could beat it. rofl I also like the way he reads the poem, as if it was a bedtime story for kids.
I know right?! As if kids would understand the point of the song. I also love the random plonky piano in the background as he reads it. This song is so hilarious!
The guy reading the poem reminds me of Alex from A Clockwork Orange
@CronoAeon correct!!!!
ONLY THE EARLY GORDON SUMNER ($TING) Would have the bollicks to produce a song of this nature... Thanks to you !
It's about a inflatable sex doll.