Lyrics for Don't Stand So Close To Me as interpreted by Demau Senae

Don't Stand So Close To Me Lyrics
Young teacher the subject of schoolgirl fantasy
She wants him so badly knows what she wants to be
Inside her there's longing
This girl's an open page
Book marking she's so close now
This girl is half his age

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Her friends are so jealous
You know how bad girls get
Sometimes it not so easy
To be the teacher's pet
Temptation, frustration
So bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop she's waiting
His car is warm and dry

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Loose talk in the classroom
To hurt they try and try
Strong words in the staffroom
The accusations fly
It's no use he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like that old man in that book by Nabakov

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

{faded quite a lot by now}

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so

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charityb
04-25-2002

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Hello....Lolita !? That's an easy one :) A teacher all wanting to shag a student, because she's acting like such a slut. Ooops ;)

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HalfLifeSuicide
05-09-2002

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your wrong...only partially though...its da other way around...

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moo
05-18-2002

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the teacher is a bastard and the girl is stupid. if she had any brains she stay away and if HIS brain wasn't in his trousers he would realise what an arsehole he was!!!!!

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stacibug
05-18-2002

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the lyrics indicate that they both know that it would be wrong for them to be together, but they can't resist the allure of 'forbidden love'

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shauncreaney
07-10-2002

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the problem is that this teacher is aroused by this lascivious school girl as most pedophiles are. she must have just started to blosom and flourish with a plentiful bosoom which titilates the teacher's curiousity since his current wife/signigicant other is probably an old crone. he wishes to fornicate with this young lass but knows the consequences of his actions will terminate him from the school board and it doesn't help that the girl is coaxing and luring him into a lair of femme fatale.
hahaha


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Constance
07-20-2002

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the problem is... that you're not teachers...and besides, who wouldn't feel that way about a good looking teacher? don't think so much, it's just a question of hormones

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lilly2705
08-10-2002

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well its really about forbidden fruit, you always want what you can't have. and the more you see it dangling in front of you the more you want. its just pasion

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moo
08-27-2002

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u gotta be in the situation to understand it. Its not fun, i'd imagine.

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utopian7811
03-20-2003

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Sting used to be a teacher before he started with the Police and this is an example of the things that young, nice looking teachers deal with. Pretty teenage girl who is showing you attention; Of course he'll respond, he's a only a guy.

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nnop
05-03-2004

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It all seems very literal to me and well explained above but i wonder if the last line "he starts to shake and cough, just like the old man in that book by Nabakov" has any significance. doesnt seem to fit in to the literal meaning of this song.

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daaf21
06-30-2004

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Nabakov wrote a novel called Lolita about an old man who becomes sexual obsessed with a 12 year old girl

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theladysopal
10-20-2004

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yeah, duh

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River Wolf
11-03-2004

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Excellent song, hands down.

Sting says this song is about the Russian novel Lolita.

However, Sting was a teacher at a Catholic school before becoming a musician. Maybe the reason why he isn't a teacher anymore is because what happens in this song happened to him.

I'm not saying it's true, and Sting is dope.

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MayorMenley
12-04-2004

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Well okay confession time for the Mayor lol. Nothing ever came of it and I never really acted on it too much as I didnt want every one knowing and knew what toruble it would cause, but all four years of highschool I spent being head over heels for one of my teachers that I had all four years. I would think it very wrong for me to go after him or him me, he did eventually find out, after I graduated, but even then nothing came of it. So I guess I kinda relate to the song. Attractions happen hormones happen, we can't controll those attractions, but as long as you can controll your actions, it should all be okay.

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missme
01-31-2005

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Like MayorMenley, I relate to it. I fancied one of my teachers for three years, but obviously realised nothing could happen.
It's not about a girl being a slut, it's about the pain of forbidden love, and when you're in the situation, it's extremely easy to relate to.

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Psychoteen
04-05-2005

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I can really relate to this song. I fell totally in love with one of my teachers last year and just recently he seems to be returning my feelings. I mean, I don't know for sure but that's the way it seems.

Anyway, why is the chorus 'Don't stand so close to me'? Which one of the two of them in supposed to be saying that and why? Surely if they had feelings for each other, they would WANT to be close, even if it was killing them. That's the way I feel anyway.

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coolhandlukens
04-27-2005

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psychoteen, he (the teacher) is telling the student to not stand close due to the fact that people are beginning to catch on ("accusations fly.."). He is paranoid and afraid of the consequences and would rather distance himself from her.

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Booyacka
01-02-2006

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I also think he wants to save him from himself. Like the man in 'Lolita', he knows if he keeps getting tempted he might not be able to stop himself. Even if he wasn't a teacher he knows it'd still be wrong, so he has to repeat the chorus line over and over and over again, pleading for her to keep away from him, for his own sanity.

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alexi_lupin
01-22-2006

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Most people can't really understand unless they've been in the situation. I was in love with one of my teachers, and he wasn't one of the blonde twenty-something PE teachers that everyone else thinks is hot. Some of my friends just couldn't understand how I'd be attracted to a teacher, and I'm like "Well, when it happens to you, you'll see."

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pianoface
01-30-2006

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I rather thought (about to whom the chorus is addressed) that it's from an outsider - someone who isn't one of the two in the relationship - to those in the relationship ... That is - either from peers of the student to the student or from friends of the teacher or other teachers to the teacher

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augustmaria
02-15-2006

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1. 'Lolita' is not a Russian novel. It is an American novel, written in America in English.

2. It's 'Nabokov,' not 'Nabakov.'

3. This is the theme song to my adolescence.

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kazu
04-03-2006

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The theme song to your adolescence?

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heyjude55
05-07-2006

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student/teacher's lust
it's a kick ass song

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selfunderstared
05-22-2006

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It's not about anything that's happened but the tension of desire and waht can't be. Girls at the school where he works fancy him for being youing and handsome and such, so the rumours fly fast when he takes on a protegé [teacher's pet] as they work out of class hours, but although the rumours are unfounded, he finds himself attracted because while she's so young, she's obviously intelligent and interesting. He can;'t show any concern for her because of social politics, and he wishes she'd stop innocently being near him for fear it will make the other girls hurt her and him loose his job.

Just a quick note on Lolita- while it is set in America, Vladamir Nabokov was indeed Russian. The allusion is a bit of a spoiler, but to put is quickly, the narrator loved Lolita from afar for a great deal of their time together, even after consumation as initiated on her part.

I adore this song, for less-than-lovely reasons.

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sixedheart
06-03-2006

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Oh now i know what Nabakov refers to now. I always wondered.

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