This started as a dream Sting had in the year before his mother died, when she was very ill.
The act of bearing a child is the same as a mother sacrificing her own life for the life of a child. Sometimes it's even literally true. At the least, the life she had before the child is gone. But in sacrificing, she provides life to another human. Death and regeneration, like Lazarus rising from the dead in the New Testament.
The mother's wounding of the son teaches the him that change is almost always painful, but the wounds are necessary to die as one person and live as a newer, more complete person.
There is one final change that we all face--death. The best shield to the pain of death is in our loved ones and in our strength of character.
This started as a dream Sting had in the year before his mother died, when she was very ill.
The act of bearing a child is the same as a mother sacrificing her own life for the life of a child. Sometimes it's even literally true. At the least, the life she had before the child is gone. But in sacrificing, she provides life to another human. Death and regeneration, like Lazarus rising from the dead in the New Testament.
The mother's wounding of the son teaches the him that change is almost always painful, but the wounds are necessary to die as one person and live as a newer, more complete person.
There is one final change that we all face--death. The best shield to the pain of death is in our loved ones and in our strength of character.
Hell of a first song to put on an album.