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.
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.