[Sting]: Love Is Stronger Than Justice is a very odd phrase, y'know? It's, "Does the end justify the means?" or "Does the means justify the end?" I really got the idea from - it started when I, I was writing this piece in 7/8 time. Which is actually, one of my, one of my favorite time signatures, because it, it's like a bar of four, then a waltz, a bar of a waltz, and then - it sort of catches up with itself. Very quirky. I, I just love it. So, I thought, well, there has to be some reason to write in 7/8, y'know? You have to, there has to be some logical reason. So, I thought about the seven. Seven days in a week, uh. “Seven Brides For Seven Brothers,” “The Magnificent Seven,” the seventh son. So, I sort of concocted this little, uh, story based on the Magnificent, on the movie "The Magnificent Seven." Where they're, where they help this, this Mexican town to get rid of the bandidos. But they're all promised a wife. And, uh, unfortunately there's only one eligible female in the whole place. So the leader of the, uh, seven brothers, uh, decides to kill the other six (laughs), um, to get the women.
[Question]: You have some very funny rhymes in Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven).
[Sting]: Well that's another trick. It's a sorta...a half, half-rhyme...It's often...It's called a feminine rhyme It's a um...It's a humorous thing where it's, it's not really, it doesn't really rhyme. You see you laugh at the inept nature of it, y'know? It's all trickery.
[Sting]: Love Is Stronger Than Justice is a very odd phrase, y'know? It's, "Does the end justify the means?" or "Does the means justify the end?" I really got the idea from - it started when I, I was writing this piece in 7/8 time. Which is actually, one of my, one of my favorite time signatures, because it, it's like a bar of four, then a waltz, a bar of a waltz, and then - it sort of catches up with itself. Very quirky. I, I just love it. So, I thought, well, there has to be some reason to write in 7/8, y'know? You have to, there has to be some logical reason. So, I thought about the seven. Seven days in a week, uh. “Seven Brides For Seven Brothers,” “The Magnificent Seven,” the seventh son. So, I sort of concocted this little, uh, story based on the Magnificent, on the movie "The Magnificent Seven." Where they're, where they help this, this Mexican town to get rid of the bandidos. But they're all promised a wife. And, uh, unfortunately there's only one eligible female in the whole place. So the leader of the, uh, seven brothers, uh, decides to kill the other six (laughs), um, to get the women.
[Question]: You have some very funny rhymes in Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven).
[Sting]: Well that's another trick. It's a sorta...a half, half-rhyme...It's often...It's called a feminine rhyme It's a um...It's a humorous thing where it's, it's not really, it doesn't really rhyme. You see you laugh at the inept nature of it, y'know? It's all trickery.