Sting – Every Breath You Take

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  My Interpretation:Sting, said in an interview, that he thought it was od people choose this song at weddings, but I think it's bechause the song could also be interpreted as the jealous love of God watching us, as well as the jealous love between couples.

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  General Comment:I thought it was pretty much accepted that the song is a spiteful rant aimed at an ex-lover by someone who feels bitter and aggrieved about the break-up. The narrator is threatening to make her new life a misrey with his jealousy and clinginess. Sting later said he regretted it and wrote "If you love somebody set them free" to make amends.
  
  The best example of this kind of sarcastic and bitter outpouring is of course Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone". Sting is a pussycat by comparison.

  Flag donutslikefannyson June 25, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:THIS SONG IS NOT ABOUT A STALKER, NOR THE FBI. ITS ABOUT PURPOSE IN LIFE.

  Flag Madagnik7on February 20, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:It's about the cold war? I always thought (too) that is was a stalkerish love song.

  Flag Marcus_Wulf1on November 25, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:The Stalking Song. Period!

  Flag luvwingson December 18, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:Every writer of a song writes ony about themselves and their life? Yeah right peeps, wake up.

  Flag luvwingson December 18, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:I heard that Sting wrote this song after having a stalker and is about that situation or the act of stalking somebody.

  Flag eltonloveron April 03, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:Sillybunny i have no intention of causing an arguement with you but why have you flooded a vast majority of police and sting songs with extracts from one obscure source to another. Although it is important to have fact on hand to support your views you scaresly seem to express any view without first cross referencing it from your sources. When Sting writes his songs he may have an aim as to what effect he wants to have on listeners but a unique, individual effect on the person is what he wants. Sting intends to use the power of music to help people clear personal demons and change their views to more a empathic and understanding stance. Whether or not his audience share his original inspiration for writing his music is irrelevent, just as long as it has an effect and the effect is positive. That the whole nature of individuality and indeed the reason why interpretation sites such as this exist. Not to discover the hard facts behind something but to allow music to have a unique effect upon you.

  Flag deankavanagh1234on September 26, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:It was recorded by The Police but written by Sting and Andy Summers who provided the distinctive guitar riff.
  
  On the stalker theory, I’ve heard from some mind-melder pretending to be an angel who asserts this is not only true but that he [can I help but laugh?] really wrote the song—whispering the words to the songwriter in the middle of the night. Leaving the song on the sideboard for a number of years, he retrieved his option and proceeded to stalk his friend, who he claims was alternately delighted and dismayed over his antics. Chances are this is complete hooey but you never know.
  
  It’s amusing to see the casual hint of distain that accompanies the idea of this being a stalker song. If all songs were gleeful little wisps of happy hearts, blooming bouquets and dancing cherubs, music could become mundane and tedious. Thank heavens for little spurts of quirky notoriety—it’s part of what makes a song memorable twenty years later.

  Flag sillybunnyon August 31, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:I think this song is by The Police. But anyway, this song is about a stalker.

  Flag ruinedfirecrackeron August 29, 2006   Link

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