Lyrics for Message In A Bottle as interpreted by Demau Senae

Message In A Bottle Lyrics
Just a castaway
An island lost at sea
Another lonely day
No one here but me
More loneliness than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair

I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle
Message in a bottle

A year has passed since I wrote my note
I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep me together
Love can mend your life
But love can break your heart

I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle
Message in a bottle

Message in a bottle

Message in a bottle

Walked out this morning
Don't believe what I saw
A hundred billion bottles
Washed upon the shore
Seems I'm not alone in being alone
A hundred billion castaways
Looking for a home

I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle
Message in a bottle

Message in a bottle

Message in a bottle

Message in a bottle

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

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Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

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butterflykiss84
08-14-2002

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No comments on such a fantastic song?Tsk

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summers_edge
08-29-2002

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

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tps12
08-30-2002

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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?

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nirvana8989
04-10-2003

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I agree with summers edge.

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ckm4ever
04-17-2003

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I certainly agree with summers edge.

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GuitarBoy
06-06-2003

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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".

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DanBoudreau
06-16-2003

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

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Jesus Filth
06-21-2003

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

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jjb_uk
05-27-2004

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This song is about somone who thinks there suffering alone, and the "message in a bottle" is a cry for help, but later on they realise that there is suffering all over the place

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ladyboygrrl
05-30-2004

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i wish i had some of what tps12 is taking.

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Kilo
01-06-2005

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I'm reasonably certain that the song is a metaphor for personal ad's. I mean, sure, the song is still about loneliness, but I think that they meant to describe something concrete.

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jam jam
01-17-2005

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amazing song. i heard of the police from john mayer who played a cover of message in a bottle on the any given thursday dvd.
i wasn't really into much 80's new wave but once i started listening to the police i was immediately hooked.
i played message in a bottle at the school concert/creative arts night and as i was lacing into the intro, the crowd went wild and i found out what i had been missing out on.
this song has to be one of my favourites.

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gofuckyourself
01-30-2005

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they aren't from the 80's and they aren't new wave...They started in the early 70's i believe, and started punk or at least helped a little...

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gofuckyourself
01-30-2005

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though I believe one was in a new wave band, and for some reason Stewart Copeland is the one that comes to mind...

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Syde
02-08-2005

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I first heard this song while stoned out of my mind , so I guess it ruined the meanings for me.

I still equate it to that stage of mescaline where you can be surounded by people but totally unable to speak with anyone.

In my case, I spent four minitues trying to tell my friend to turn off the damn radio.

She thought I was asking for "dog food nacho's".

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willard
03-14-2005

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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

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Blowe
04-08-2005

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How relevent does this song seem at present with online dating and such as it is now? Seems a perfect fit. There could be a lonely someone who decides to put forth their plea to find someone to love, say, by posting to an internet dating site or sites, and finding out a year later that there are 100,000,000 people signed up on this site all looking for the same thing. The real-life explanation may be that when the person in question signed up on the site it was just small at the time, not many users, so repeatedly checking it at that time seemed fruiteless. Then a year later, they go back to check it, and see that it has grown to a hundred million. All people looking to find love by putting out their plea. Not that all 100,000,000 responded (on the site) to the subject of the song, but that they are there at all, and the subject knowing why they are there (it's an online dating site).
What's weird is when this song came out, there wasn't really a way for this song to work except symbolically. It could possibly work in the context of a newspaper personals ad, but how would he have the information that there are 100,000,000 others? Certainly he wouldn't get that kind of information from a local paper. And the idea of actually seeing 100,000,000 bottles, although nice symbolically, doesn't work well in a practical sense. So the only feasible practical explanation could be an electronic system capable of holding such amounts of information, the internet, and the specific niche of online dating sites. It seems like a perfect fit for the song.

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polythenepam
04-14-2005

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i think hes talking about a person who is extremely introverted and who has rejected all external influence, then realizes that hes lonely and hes built a wall around himself. it reminds me of the beatles lyric from 'help' - "When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody's help in any way, But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured, Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors" its like he had shut everyone out and was realizing that it didnt make him happy, and then he sends out a bottle, or a cry for help, and he realizes that there are millions of others like him that need love. i dig this song....

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whistlersmammy
04-16-2005

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the police were a punk band, but they quickly realized that they were much older and better musicans then the average punk band. so they branched out. copeland was in a band called Curved Air, which was a 70's progressive band.

message in the bottle, in my opinion is about about one person professing his loneliness to the world and world saying, we all are. deal.

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Burtonite
11-06-2005

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I love the bass in this song

Oh yes

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KurdtTBO
02-22-2006

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tps12 is right. this definitely takes place in the distant future. i mean he says "100 billion bottles wash up" how could 100 billion bottles wash up if there are only 5 billion people on the world now? that means everyone would have had to have sent out 20 SOSes. and back when this song was written there were considerably fewer people than five billion? duh. the future!!!

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Wings223
02-28-2006

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KurdtTBO, it says One hundred MILLION.

And while this Song is obviously symbolic of lonliness, I like to think that it is actually a storyline of some sort, wit ha real island, and real bottles. ^^

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Lyrical Analyst
03-05-2006

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I agree with the above comments about feeling lonely and that nobody can empathize with you, then coming to the realization that you're far from alone in your emotions. I also agree with the idea stated above that the song is even more relevant nowadays, with the growing popularity of the Internet.

Interestingly enough, looking at some people's interpretations of love songs at this site, I've actually experienced a similar "epiphany" myself. I've recently been feeling kinda down in the dumps about a failed relationship, only to find that several users are going/have gone through something almost identical to my situation. Furthermore, talking to other friends and/or hearing about other people (including celebrities) who have been unlucky in love certainly makes one feel much less alone.

I consider this one of the most universally relevant lyrics ever written.

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mark36
03-13-2006

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Sting sure used to like to throw in the stray "yos" a lot, didn't he. "An island lost at sea-yo/Another lonely day/No one here but me-yo" And also a word -- perhaps foreign -- that sounds like "shoque." What's that all about?

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AprilMoon1991
07-02-2006

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This song IS about feeling lonely, not connecting with anyone else, and just feeling like calling out to someone. As for the "hundred billion bottles", it's a symbolic number, that represents enormity. It's not like he would actually COUNT the bottles. All in all, it's a nice visual image:

"Walked out this morning
Don't believe what I saw
A hundred billion bottles
Washed upon the shore..."

It's my fave. part of the song. That and the bass solo. The best I ever heard!

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