Okay, all joking aside, this could be a song about making up with Frances—Sting’s first wife that he divorced roughly about the same time that he divorced himself from The Police in the early eighties.
He asks for her forgiveness—at the time the headiness and excesses of pop-rock-stardom propelled him past his more cultured life with this accomplished actress and he ran off—love struck—with soul-mate Trudie, who blended perfectly with the chapters he was venturing into as a solo artist.
When the unmistakable optimism shows up I’m not sure if this represents overtures on her part to forgive and forget—she was so hurt she couldn’t speak his name for years—that did surface before she dove back into the past for the ironic comfort heartache provides or something else. But I understand the three of them—Sting, Trudie and Frances—are friends again even though the song ends with the idea that she’s unsure if she wants to forgive him and she’s still haunted by the past.
Okay, all joking aside, this could be a song about making up with Frances—Sting’s first wife that he divorced roughly about the same time that he divorced himself from The Police in the early eighties.
He asks for her forgiveness—at the time the headiness and excesses of pop-rock-stardom propelled him past his more cultured life with this accomplished actress and he ran off—love struck—with soul-mate Trudie, who blended perfectly with the chapters he was venturing into as a solo artist.
When the unmistakable optimism shows up I’m not sure if this represents overtures on her part to forgive and forget—she was so hurt she couldn’t speak his name for years—that did surface before she dove back into the past for the ironic comfort heartache provides or something else. But I understand the three of them—Sting, Trudie and Frances—are friends again even though the song ends with the idea that she’s unsure if she wants to forgive him and she’s still haunted by the past.