After years of listening to and loving this song and album, it occurred to me that "her eyes are nothing like the sun" meant that he could gaze at them forever without turning away like we do with the sun.
It matches what he says in the first verse when he says he would gaze at the moon the whole night through.
I did some research later and saw that it refers to a sonnet with an entirely different meaning.
I wonder which meaning Sting implied?
After years of listening to and loving this song and album, it occurred to me that "her eyes are nothing like the sun" meant that he could gaze at them forever without turning away like we do with the sun. It matches what he says in the first verse when he says he would gaze at the moon the whole night through. I did some research later and saw that it refers to a sonnet with an entirely different meaning. I wonder which meaning Sting implied?