Message In A Bottle

right. no matter how alone you may feel, there are many people out there as lonely as you, looking for that someone.

I don't agree with tps12's explantion, but its an interesting interpretation.

I think the Police use the idea of being stranded on a desert island as a metaphor for loneliness. At the end of the song he realises that he's "not alone at being alone".

I think it's possible that the song was intended just to be a metaphor for being lonely and then realising that a very large number of people are as lonely as you are. But I agree with Wings223... it's a little more fun to imagine it and think about a man who is actually on a desert island.

And I'm still laughing at the comment about Sting's habit of saying 'yos'.

This is a song about the distant future, when Earth has become too polluted and ravaged by nuclear holocaust to support human life. Of the billions of people of the overpopulated planet, a few brave souls step forward as volunteers in the search for a new home.

Sting is one of them.

After half a year of travelling at nearly the speed of light, he touches down on a barren, lifeless world. Living on what slim provisions he brought with him, and with a ship too damaged to return, he despairs. His only option is to send an SOS back to Earth, warning Mankind that this planet will not do.

Back on Earth, latent radiation has prevented them from hearing back from any of the scouts they sent out. They never get Sting's message, and with the oxygen supply running out, the entire population of Earth blasts off, headed to Sting's hopeless planet.

One year later, after never having heard word back from Earth, Sting awakes to see streaks of light in the early predawn sky, as billions of escape pods enter the atmosphere. He is no longer alone, but with Mankind doomed to die out in a manner of months, does it really matter?

i think hes lonely and turning to drink (the bottle), but only as a cry for help and hes hoping that someone will notice how fucked up he is by the amount hes drinking. hence: i hope that someone gets my message in a bottle

Copeland is THE guru. If I was 1/10th the precussionist he is, my life would be complete. What else can be said........

I agree with summers edge.

I certainly agree with summers edge.

I feel lonely and so do you ... no i don't! shut up loser yes you do

Well I think it should be quite obvious to everyone listening that this song represents a call for help;lonliness, homeless, etc.