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С моими дополнениями из разных источников в сети.

Например, какие книги вдохновляли Стинга на те или иные песни и альбомы.

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'Полис' и Стинг

Крис Уэлч

Москва, 1997


оглавление

ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ

АЛЬБОМЫ 'ПОЛИС'

OUTLANDOS D'AMOUR (АУТЛАНДОС Д'АМОР)

RЕGGАTА DE BLANC (РЕГГАТТА ДЕ БЛАНК)

ZENYATTA MONDATTA (ЗЕНЬЯТТА МОНДАТТА) !

GHOST IN THE MACHINE (ПРИЗРАК ВНУТРИ МАШИНЫ)

SYNCHRONICITY (СИНХРОННОСТЬ) !

THE POLICE: GREATEST HITS ('ПОЛИС': ЛУЧШИЕ ХИТЫ) !

MESSAGE IN A BOX (ПОСЛАНИЕ В ЯЩИКЕ)

Песни, Не Включавшиеся В Альбомы The Police

THE POLICE LIVE! ('ПОЛИС' 'ВЖИВУЮ'!)

СОЛЬНЫЕ АЛЬБОМЫ СТИНГА

THE DREAM OF THE BLUE TURTLES (СОН ГОЛУБЫХ ЧЕРЕПАХ)

BRING ON THE NIGHT (ПРИНЕСИ НОЧЬ)

...NOTHING LIKE THE SUN (...НИЧЕМ НЕ СХОЖИ С СОЛНЦЕМ)

THE SOUL CAGES (КЛЕТКИ ДЛЯ ДУШ)

TEN SUMMONER'S TALES (ДЕСЯТЬ ИСТОРИЙ САММОНЕРА)

ЭПИЛОГ

УКАЗАТЕЛЬ

СОБРАНИЕ ПЕСЕН

Police

Outlandos d'Amour - Lyrics  Error! Bookmark not defined.

Reggatta de Blanc - Lyrics  Error! Bookmark not defined.

Zenyatta Mondatta - Lyrics  Error! Bookmark not defined.

Ghost In The Machine - Lyrics  755

Synchronicity - Lyrics  810

The Police Live! - Lyrics  865

Sting

The Dream Of The Blue Turtles 1985  Error! Bookmark not defined.

Bring On The Night - 1986

:Nothing like The Sun - 1987

Nada Como El Sol - 1988  1174

The Soul Cages - 1991 - Lyrics  1190

Fields Of Gold: The Best Of Sting 1984-1994  1222

Ten Summoner's Tales (1993) 1277

Mercury Falling -1996  1320

Brand New Day (1999) 1354

Sting At The Movies  1487

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Предисловие. 8

Альбомы Police. 11

Outlandos D'amour - Аутландос Д'амор. 11

Next To You - Рядом С Тобой. 12

So Lonely - Такой Одинокий. 12

Roxanne - Роксана. 13

Hole In My Life - Дыра В Моей Жизни. 13

Peanuts - Пустяки. 13

Can't Stand Losing You - He Смогу Вынести Потери Тебя. 13

Truth Hits Everybody - Правда Задевает Всех. 13

Born In The 50's - Рожденные В 50-Х.. 15

Be My Girl - Sally - Будь Моей Девушкой - Салли. 17

Masoko Tanga - Масоко Танга. 19

Reggatta De Blanc - Реггатта Де Бланк. 23

Message In A Bottle - Послание В Бутылке. 32

Reggatta De Blanc - Реггатта Де Бланк. 35

It's Alright For You - Для Тебя - Хорошо. 38

Bring On The Night - Принеси Ночь. 40

Deathwish - Пожелание Смерти. 42

Walking On The Moon - Прогулка На Луне. 44

On Any Other Day - В Любой Другой День. 46

The Bed's Тоо Big Without You - Кровать Слишком Широка Без Тебя. 48

Contact - Контакт. 50

Does Everyone Stare - Все Ли Смотрят Пристально. 52

No Time This Time - В Это Время Нет Времени. 54

Zenyatta Mondatta - Зеньятта Мондатта. 57

Don't Stand So Close To Me - He Стой Так Близко Ко Мне. 69

Driven To Tears - Доведен До Слез 72

When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around. 74

Canary In A Coalmine -Канарейка В Угольной Шахте. 77

Voices Inside My Head - Голоса У Меня В Голове. 79

Bombs Away - Бомбы Долой. 83

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. 85

Behind My Camel - За Моим Верблюдом. 87

Man In A Suitcase - Человек В Чемодане. 89

Shadows In The Rain - Тени Под Дождем ( 2 вариант в сольном альбоме Стинга) 91

The Other Way Of Stopping - Останавливаться По-Другому. 93

Ghost In The Machine - Призрак Внутри Машины.. 96

Spirits In The Material World - духи в материальном мире. 106

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - в любых мелочах она - волшебна. 108

Invisible Sun - невидимое солнце. 110

Hungry For You (J'aurais Toujours Faim De Toi) - Изголодался по тебе. 112

Demolition Man - подрывник. 114

Тоо Much Information - слишком много информации. 116

Rehumanize yourself - очеловечь себя. 118

One World (Not Three) - один мир - а не три. 120

Omegaman - человек-омега. 122

Secret journey - тайное путешествие. 124

Darkness - темнота. 129

Synchronicity - Синхронность. 132

Synchronicity I - синхронность 1. 147

Walking In Your Footsteps - за тобой след в след. 149

О My God - о боже мой. 151

Mother - мать. 154

Miss Gradenko - мисс граденко. 157

Synchronicity II - синхронность II 161

Every Breath You Take - каждый твой вздох. 163

King Of Pain - король боли. 165

Wrapped Around Your Finger - у тебя на пальце. 167

Tea In The Sahara - чай в сахаре. 169

The Police: Greatest Hits - Полис: Лучшие Хиты.. 176

Message In A Box - Послание В Ящике. 182

Песни, Не Включавшиеся В Альбомы The Police: 192

Fall Out - Осадки. 193

Nothing Achieving - Все Безуспешно. 196

Dead End Job - Тупиковая Работа. 198

Landlord (Live) - Домовладелец. 201

Next To You (Live) - Рядом С Тобой. 203

Landlord - Домовладелец доп. 2. 205

Visions Of The Night - Ночные Видения. 208

The Bed's Too Big Without You (Mono) - Кровать Слишком Широка Без Тебя. 210

Truth Hits Everybody (Live) - Правда Задевает Всех. 212

Friends - Друзья. 215

A Sermon - Проповедь. 217

Driven To Tears (Live) - Доведен До Слез 219

Shambelle - Шамбдла. 221

Flexible Strategies - Гибкая Стратегия. 223

Low Life - Жизнь На Дне. 225

How Stupid Mr. Bates - Как Глупо, Мистер Бейтс. 227

A Kind Of Loving - Что-То Похожее На Любовь. 229

Murder By Numbers - Убийства По Порядку. 231

Man In A Suitcase (Live) - Человек В Чемодане. 233

Someone To Talk To - Поговорить С Кем-Нибудь. 235

Message In A Bottle (Live) - Послание В Бутылке. 237

I Burn For You - Я Сгораю От Любви К Тебе. 239

Once Upon A Daydream - Однажды Во Сне Наяву. 242

Tea In The Sahara(Live) - Чай В Сахаре. 244

Don't Stand So Close To Me '86 - Не Стой Так Близко Ко Мне '86. 247

The Police Live - Полис Вживую.. 250

Диск 1. 259

Next To You - Рядом С Тобой. 260

So Lonely -Такой Одинокий. 262

Truth Hits Everybody - Правда Задевает Всех. 265

Walking On The Moon - Прогулка На Луне. 267

Hole In My Life - Дыра В Моей Жизни. 269

Fall Out - Осадки. 271

Bring On The Night - Принеси Ночь. 273

Message In A Bottle - Послание В Бутылке. 275

The Bed's Too Big Without You - Кровать Слишком Широка Без Тебя. 277

Peanuts - Пустяки. 280

Roxanne - Роксана. 282

Can't Stand Losing You - He Смогу Вынести Потери Тебя. 284

Landlord - Домовладелец доп. 1 (история написания) 287

Born In The 50's - Рожденные В 50-Х.. 289

Be my girl - sally - будь моей девушкой - салли. 291

Диск 2. 294

Synchronicity I - синхронность I 295

Synchronicity II - синхронность II 297

Walking In Your Footsteps - За Тобой След В След. 299

Message In A Bottle - послание в бутылке. 302

О My God - о боже мой. 304

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. 306

Wrapped Around Your Finger - у тебя на пальце (1 история написания) 308

Tea In The Sahara - чай в сахаре (1 история написания) 310

Spirits In The Material World - духи в материальном мире (1 история написания) 313

King Of Pain - король боли. 315

Don't Stand So Close To Me - Нe стой так близко ко мне. 318

Every Breath You Take - каждый твой вздох. 320

Roxanne - роксана. 322

Can't Stand Losing You - He смогу вынести потери тебя. 324

So Lonely - такой одинокий. 326

СОЛЬНЫЕ АЛЬБОМЫ СТИНГА.. 329

The dream of the blue turtles - Сон голубых черепах. 330

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free - если ты любишь кого-то, дай ему свободу. 341

Love Is The Seventh Wave - любовь - это девятый вал. 343

Russians - русские. 345

Children's Crusade - детский крестовый поход. 348

Shadows In The Rain - тени под дождем. 350

We Work The Black Seam - мы разрабатываем черный пласт. 353

Consider Me Gone - считай, что я ушел. 356

The Dream Of Blue Turtles - сон голубых черепах. 358

9. Moon Over Bourbon Street - луна над бурбон-стрит (Fm) 360

10. Fortress Around Your Heart - крепость вокруг твоего сердца. 362

Bring On The Night - Принеси Ночь. 365

Bring On The Night/ When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around. 373

Consider Me Gone - Считай, что я ушел. 378

Low Life - Жизнь на дне. 380

We Work The Black Seam - Мы разрабатываем черный пласт. 382

Driven To Tears - Доведен до слез 384

The Dream Of Blue Turtles/ Demolition Man - Cон Голубых Черепах/ Подрывник. 386

One World (Not Three)/ Love Is The Seventh Wave - один мир (а не три)/ любовь - это девятый вал. 388

Moon Over Bourbon Street - луна над бурбон-стрит. 393

I Burn For You - я сгораю по тебе. 395

Another Day - Еще один день. 398

Children's Crusade - Детский крестовый поход. 400

Down So Long - так долго был подавлен. 402

Tea In The Sahara - Чай В Сахаре. 404

...Nothing like the Sun - ...ничем не схожи с солнцем*. 407

The Lazarus Heart - Сердце Лазаря. 415

Be Still My Beating Heart - Оставайся Пульсом Моего Сердца. 417

Englishman In New York - Англичанин В Нью-Йорке. 420

History Will Teach Us Nothing - история ничему нас не научит. 422

They Dance Alone (Gueca Solo) - они танцуют в одиночестве. 425

Fragile - хрупкость. 428

We'll Be Together - мы будем вместе. 430

Straight To My Heart - прямо к моему сердцу. 433

Rock Steady - надежный, как камень. 435

Sister Moon - сестра луна. 437

Little Wing - крылышко. 441

The Secret Marriage - тайная свадьба. 443

The Soul Cages - Клетки Для Душ.. 447

Island Of Souls - остров душ.. 455

All This Time - все это время. 457

Mad About You - схожу с ума по тебе. 459

Jeremiah Blues (Part I)  - блюз иеремии (часть i) 461

Why Should I Cry For You? - почему я должен плакать о тебе?. 463

Saint Agnes And The Burning Train - святая агнесса и горящий поезд. 465

The Wild Wild Sea - бурное,бурное море. 467

The Soul Cages - клетки для душ.. 469

When The Angels Fall - когда опускаются ангелы. 472

Ten Summoner's Tales (1993)- Десять Историй Саммонера. 475

Prologue (If I Ever Lose My Faith In You) - пролог (если я когда-нибудь утрачу веру в тебя) 487

Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Magnificent Seven) - любовь сильнее справедливости (великолепная семерка) 489

Fields Of Gold - золотые поля. 491

Heavy Cloud No Rain - тяжелая туча без дождя. 493

She's Тоо Good For Me - она слишком хороша для меня. 495

Seven Days - семь дней. 497

Saint Augustine In Hell - святой августин в аду. 499

It's Probably Me - наверное, это я. 501

Everybody Laughed But You - все смеялись, кроме тебя. 503

Shape Of My Heart - форма моего сердца. 505

Something The Boy Said - To, что сказал мальчик. 507

Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me) - Эпилог ничего обо мне. 509

Указатель. 512

Demolition Man [EP] 539

Lyrics. 546

Ain't No Sunshine. 547

The Windmills Of Your Mind. 576

Police - Lyrics. 610

Outlandos d'Amour - Lyrics. 611

Next To You. 615

So Lonely. 619

Roxanne. 623

Hole In My Life. 627

Peanuts 631

Can't Stand Losing You. 636

Truth Hits Everybody. 639

Born In The 50's 647

Be My Girl - Sally. 651

Masoko Tanga. 655

Reggatta de Blanc - Lyrics. 657

Message In A Bottle. 661

Reggatta de Blanc. 668

It's Alright For You. 672

Bring On The Night 677

Deathwish. 680

Walking On The Moon. 685

On Any Other Day. 688

The Bed's Too Big Without You. 692

Contact 695

Does Everyone Stare. 700

No Time This Time. 704

Zenyatta Mondatta - Lyrics. 707

Don't Stand So Close To Me. 711

Driven To Tears 714

When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around. 717

Canary In A Coalmine. 720

Voices Inside My Head. 724

Bombs Away. 727

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. 736

Behind My Camel 739

Man In A Suitcase. 744

Shadows In The Rain. 749

( 2 вариант в сольном альбоме Стинга) 750

The Other Way of Stopping. 757

Ghost In The Machine - Lyrics. 760

Spirits In The Material World. 764

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic. 767

Invisible Sun. 771

Hungry For You. 775

Demolition Man. 780

Too Much Information. 786

Rehumanize Yourself 794

One World (Not Three) 799

Omegaman. 802

Secret Journey. 806

Darkness 811

Synchronicity - Lyrics. 815

Synchronicity I 820

Walking In Your Footsteps 825

O My God. 830

Mother 834

Miss Gradenko. 838

Synchronicity II 842

Every Breath You Take. 846

King Of Pain. 850

Wrapped Around Your Finger 860

Tea In The Sahara. 864

Murder By Numbers 867

The Police Live! - Lyrics. 870

Next To You. 874

So Lonely. 878

Truth Hits Everybody. 882

Walking On The Moon. 887

Hole In My Life. 890

Fall Out 894

Bring On The Night 903

Message In A Bottle. 906

The Bed's Too Big Without You. 910

Peanuts 913

Roxanne. 918

Can't Stand Losing You. 921

Landlord. 924

Born In The 50's 928

Be My Girl, Sally. 932

Synchronicity I 936

Synchronicity II 940

Walking In Your Footsteps 944

Message In A Bottle. 948

O My God. 952

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. 955

Wrapped Around Your Finger 958

Tea In The Sahara c#. 962

Spirits In The Material World. 965

King Of Pain. 969

Don't Stand So Close To Me. 979

Every Breath You Take. 982

Roxanne. 986

Can't Stand Losing You. 989

So Lonely. 992

Sting - Solo-Lyrics. 996

The Dream Of The Blue Turtles 1985 (описание) 998

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free. 1002

Love Is the Seventh Wave. 1004

Russians 1006

Children's Crusade. 1011

Shadows in the Rain. 1013

We Work the Black Seam.. 1018

Consider Me Gone. 1022

9. Moon Over Bourbon Street 1025

Fortress Around Your Heart 1032

Bring On The Night - 1986. 1042

Bring On The Night 1046

When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around. 1049

When The World Is Running Down You Tabs 1051

Consider Me Gone. 1064

Low Life. 1071

We Work The Black Seam.. 1074

Driven To Tears. 1082

Dream Of The Blue Turtles. 1085

Demolition Man. 1088

One World (Not Three) 1094

Love Is The Seventh Wave. 1097

Moon Over Bourbon Street 1106

I Burn For You. 1111

Another Day. 1117

Children's Crusade. 1125

Been Down So Long. 1133

Tea In The Sahara. 1144

:Nothing like The Sun - 1987. 1148

The Lazarus Heart 1150

Be Still My Beating Heart 1152

Englishman In New York. 1154

History Will Teach Us Nothing. 1156

They Dance Alone (Gueca Solo) 1159

Fragile. 1162

We'll Be Together 1164

Straight To My Heart 1166

Rock Steady. 1169

Sister Moon. 1172

Little Wing. 1174

The Secret Marriage. 1176

Nada Como El Sol - 1988. 1179

Mariposa Libre. 1182

Fragil 1184

Si Estamos Juntos 1186

Ellas Danzan Solas (Cueca Solo) 1188

Fragilidad. 1191

The Soul Cages - 1991 - Lyrics. 1195

Island Of Souls 1200

All This Time. 1202

Mad About You. 1205

Jeremiah Blues (Part I) 1208

Why Should I Cry For You?. 1211

Saint Agnes and the Burning Train (Instrumental) 1214

The Wild Wild Sea. 1216

The Soul Cages 1219

When the Angels Fall 1223

Fields Of Gold: The Best Of Sting 1984-1994. 1227

When We Dance. 1229

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free. 1233

Fields of Gold. 1235

All This Time. 1237

Englishman In New York. 1240

Mad About You. 1242

It's Probably Me. 1245

They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo) 1247

"They Dance Alone". 1250

They Dance Alone Guitar Tabs 1255

"They Dance Alone" 1257

If I Ever Lose My Faith In You. 1262

Fragile. 1264

We'll Be Together 1266

Moon Over Bourbon Street 1268

Love Is the Seventh Wave. 1270

Russians 1272

Why Should I Cry For You?. 1274

This Cowboy Song. 1276

Fragilidad. 1279

Ten Summoner's Tales (1993) 1282

1. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You. 1285

2. Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven) 1287

3. Fields of Gold. 1290

4. Heavy Cloud No Rain. 1292

5. She's Too Good For Me. 1294

6. Seven Days 1305

7. Saint Augustine In Hell 1309

8. It's Probably Me. 1311

9. Everybody Laughed But You. 1313

10. Shape Of My Heart 1317

11. Something The Boy Said. 1319

12. Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me) 1321

Mercury Falling -1996. 1325

1. The Hounds Of Winter 1327

2. I Hung My Head. 1330

3. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot 1333

4. I Was Brought To My Senses 1341

5. You Still Touch Me. 1344

6. I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying. 1346

7. All Four Seasons 1348

8. La Belle Dame Sans Regret 1350

9. Valparaiso. 1352

10. Lithium Sunset 1354

11. Twenty Five To Midnight 1356

Brand New Day (1999) 1359

1. A Thousand Years 1373

2. Desert Rose. 1380

3. Big Lie Small World. 1391

4. After The Rain Has Fallen. 1408

5. Perfect Love... Gone Wrong. 1418

6. Tomorrow We'll See. 1428

7. End Of The Game. 1440

8. Fill Her Up. 1453

9. Ghost Story. 1465

10. Brand New Day. 1479

Sting At The Movies. 1493

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. 1513

I Burn For You. 1516

Need Your Love So Bad. 1522

Englishman In New York. 1529

Someone To Watch Over Me. 1540

Demolition Man. 1549

Shape Of My Heart 1555

All For Love. 1566

The Secret Marriage. 1571

This Cowboy Song. 1578

It's Probably Me. 1586

Angel Eyes 1595

Moonlight 1606

My One And Only Love. 1614

Fragile. 1623

Murder By Numbers 1629

Valparaiso. 1633

MISCELLANEOUS TRACKS. 1639

A Day In The Life. 1702

Ain't No Sunshine. 1714

All For Love. 1724

Angel Eyes 1734

Another Pyramid. 1745

Be Bop A Lula. 1757

Beneath A Desert Moon. 1763

Caro Mio Ben. 1778

Come Down In Time. 1785

Conversation With A Dog. 1793

Cushie Butterfield. 1805

Gabriel's Message. 1814

Get Up Stand Up. 1821

How Insensitive (Insensatez) 1836

If You There. 1842

I'll Follow My Secret Heart 1855

I Need You Like This Hole In My Head. 1861

In The Wee Small Hours 1869

I Saw Three Ships 1876

I Shall Be Released. 1888

It Ain't Necessarily So. 1894

It's A Lonesome Old Town. 1902

January Stars 1909

Lullaby To An Anxious Child. 1921

Mack The Knife. 1928

Mo Ghile Mear (Our Hero) 1934

Moonlight 1943

Muoio Per Te (Mad About You) 1951

My Funny Friend And Me. 1962

My One And Only Love. 1972

Need Your Love So Bad. 1981

Ne Me Quitte Pas 1992

Nice Work If You Can Get It 2005

Nuclear Waste. 2013

One Day She'll Love Me. 2024

Purple Haze. 2039

'Round Midnight 2046

She Walks This Earth. 2054

Sisters Of Mercy. 2062

Someone To Watch Over Me. 2069

Spread A Little Happiness 2077

Strange Fruit 2092

Take Me To The Sunshine. 2098

Tempted. 2111

The Idiot Bastard Son. 2120

The Mighty. 2128

The Pirate's Bride. 2136

There Comes A Time. 2147

The Wind Cries Mary. 2152

This Cowboy Song. 2159

This Was Never Meant To Be. 2173

Three Steps To Heaven. 2181

Tutti Frutti 2187

Up From The Skies (Exp) 2194

Waters Of Tyne. 2211

We're Sending Our Love Down The Well 2218

When We Dance. 2223

Where Will You Be For Christmas 2238

Windmills Of Your Mind. 2248

You Were Meant For Me. 2257

Мое Видео. 2266

Videos Part 1 & Nothing Like The Sun [VIDEO] 2268

Video Tracks. 2268

MTV Unplugged [VIDEO] 2273

Tracks. 2275

Концерт Стинга в Москве НТВ (tv) 2277

Film.. 2294

WWW... 2314


Предисловие

Мало кто мог предсказать, что круговерть панк-рока конца семидесятых породит двух виднейших и наиболее успешных представителей интеллектуального направления в истории поп-музыки. 'The Police' и ее лидер Стинг выпустили в свет целый поток хитовых синглов и альбомов, которые обогатили современную культуру, да и сами музыканты при этом обогатились более, чем могли ожидать в своих самых смелых мечтах.

Из отходов и выбросов панк-энергии группа изготовила высококачественный продукт под названием 'Reggatta De Blanc' - уникальную разновидность белого регги. Они покорили мир, а Стинг, Гордон Самнер, сын простого молочника из Тайнсайда, стал одним из самых богатых людей страны. Актер, композитор, лид-вокалист, наконец, бас-гитарист 'The Police', обладатель одного из наиболее узнаваемых голосов в поп-музыке - столь широкий диапазон художественных способностей Стинга говорит о нем как о поистине ренессансной личности нашего времени.

Хотя после распада 'The Police' прошло много времени, влияние ее по-прежнему огромно и музыка группы остается неотъемлемой частью рок-культуры. Вместе они записали только пять студийных альбомов. Вступив на путь сольной карьеры, Стинг выпустил четыре студийных*[1] и один двойной концертный CD. В целом 'The Police' удалось выдержать установленный ею же самой высокий стандарт, если не считать отдельных неудач. В любом случае она создала свой саунд и очень своеобразный стиль, то есть добилась того, о чем

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* Книга Криса Уэлча написана до выхода пятого студийного альбома Стинга '
Mercury Falling'. - Примеч. пер.

большинство групп не может даже и мечтать. Последующее творчество Стинга отразило его любовь к джазу, блюзу и мелодичности, его тексты отличаются литературным изяществом, чуждым большинству поп-сочинителей.

Проблемы и стрессы в конце концов отравили работу группы, что повлекло за собой ее распад, но главное в том, что индивидуальность 'The Police' позволила ей преодолеть удручающую банальность всей поп-музыкальной системы, научила слушателей воспринимать качество и оригинальность музыки. И группа достигла полного триумфа, хотя это было далеко не просто.

Ни 'The Police', ни Стинг никогда до конца не соответствовали канонам 'нормального' рока. Их подготовка, опыт, талант, интеллект и высокие устремления заметно отличались от среднестатистических. Это порой делало их мишенью для ревности и зависти. Но на каждый ругательный отзыв или уничижительную реплику в прессе приходилось куда больше безмерного восхищения, похвал и поддержки.

Даже музыкальные критики, на которых Стинг обрушивался в песне 'St. Augustine In Hell' (из великолепного альбома 'Ten Summoner's Tales'), определяя им место в аду, многое находили достойным похвалы и восхищения, - как в лучшие времена 'The Police', так и позднее. Конечно, в те ранние годы, когда 'The Police' и ее белокурый солист с колючими глазами были самой горячей, самой модной темой первых газетных полос, они, казалось, не могли делать что-то не так. Все, к чему они прикасались, превращалось в золото.

Трое молодых людей основали 'The Police' в 1977 г., в разгар панк-революции, когда выскочки с серьгами в ноздрях с упоением поливали дерьмом рок-истеблишмент - старых заевшихся динозавров, чей роскошный образ жизни раздражал молодых фанов. Если панк и создал что-нибудь, то прежде всего атмосферу, в которой новая волна рок-групп могла достичь быстрого общественного и коммерческого успеха. Встряска благоприятствовала даже тем музыкантам, чье происхождение и музыкальные идеалы плохо совмещались с сердитыми двенадцатитактовыми риффами и злобными текстами.

'The Police' была основана Стюартом Армстронгом Коплендом, опытным ударником, вдохновленным наступлением панка. Хотя Стюарт и жил в Лондоне, где уже играл с группой 'Curved Air', он был американским гражданином. Его отец Майлс, перед тем как стать военным разведчиком во время второй мировой войны и одним из основателей ЦРУ, был джазовым трубачом и даже играл в оркестре Гленна Миллера. У семьи Коплендов удивительная история, а кроме того, многочисленные связи в мире большого бизнеса и политики. Когда Стюарту было всего шесть месяцев от роду, его отца направили в Каир с целью создания там секретной разведывательной службы.

В 1956 г. он оставил службу в ЦРУ и открыл свое собственное агентство, работая в основном на Ближнем Востоке в качестве советника богатых нефтяных шейхов. Стюарт и его старший брат, которого, как и отца, звали Майлс, выросли в Бейруте и бегло разговаривали по-арабски. В возрасте тринадцати лет Стюарт сел за барабаны, играя в группах, состоявших из молодых американцев, жителей Бейрута. В 1966 г. отец Стюарта переехал в Лондон, и парня отправили учиться в закрытую частную школу Милфилд. Его старший брат, известный под суровым именем Майлс Эйкс Копленд Третий, был менеджером разных групп, включая 'Wishbone Ash' и 'Curved Air', и занимался записью дисков с собственным лейблом. Позднее Стюарт поступил в Калифорнийский университет в Беркли, где изучал музыку, средства массовой информации и связи. В 1975 г. Майлс попросил брата выступить в роли тур-менеджера для Джоан Арматрейдинг, у которой был контракт с компанией 'А&М Records'. В результате всего этого Стюарт довольно хорошо познакомился с миром музыкального бизнеса.

В то же самое время Майлс занимался делами прогрессивных рокеров 'Darryl Way's Wolf'. Скрипач Дэррил в свое время играл в группе 'Curved Air'. Майлс посоветовал Дэррилу распустить свою группу и стал менеджером новой, с участием Стюарта и Дэррила. Однако этот замысел был отодвинут на задний план необходимостью возобновить оригинальный состав 'Curved Air', чтобы выплатить до конца некоторые налоги. Стюарт был нанят в качестве дорожного менеджера, но после одного из туров, когда группу покинул ударник, он сам сел за установку, поддерживая вокалистку Соню Кристину. Это был первый профессиональный концерт Стюарта. Однако напористый молодой ударник вскоре увидел, что группа напрасно тратит деньги на дорогостоящие в плане продюсирования альбомы, к тому же Стюарту не нравился ее коммерческий стиль. Когда в декабре 1976 г. группа распалась, у него уже были планы по поводу собственной, более современной и агрессивной группы, 'The Police'.

Они начали репетировать в январе и дали свой первый концерт в марте. Стюарт мечтал о группе новой волны, которая могла бы использовать сильные стороны реалистичной стилистики панка. Его привлекала идея записи собственного диска без привлечения крупных компаний. Он пригласил гитариста Генри Падовани и позвонил бас-гитаристу и певцу из Ньюкасла, которого он приметил раньше. Этот парень называл себя Стинг. Всего нескольких телефонных звонков хватило, чтобы изменить ход рок-истории и их собственные судьбы.

Стинг, он же Гордон Мэтью Самнер, родился в 1951 г. в Уолсенде, районе города Нью-касл-апон-Тайн. Он был старшим из четверых детей в католической семье. Его отец, инженер, в свое время переквалифицировался в молочника, и в конце концов ему удалось построить свою собственную маслобойню. Непростое существование семьи пробудило в Гордоне раннее желание покинуть Ньюкасл и попытать счастья в музыкальном бизнесе. Учился он в средней школе св. Катберта, где царила строгая дисциплина и регулярно применялись телесные наказания.

В школе Гордон впервые взял в руки гитару. Он слушал 'The Beatles' и 'Stones', затем один из старших приятелей приучил его к джазу. После исключения из Уорикского университета Гордон стал по вечерам играть на бас-гитаре, в дневное время подрабатывая в разных местах, в том числе на стройплощадках. Без особой цели он поступил в 1971 г. в Нью-каслский педагогический колледж, но куда интереснее ему было музицировать с джазовыми исполнителями в местном пабе 'Уитшиф'. Когда Гордона в конце концов пригласили в ансамбль 'The Phoenix Jazzmen', ему удалось оживить их акустический саунд мощным звучанием электрической бас-гитары. На сцене он часто появлялся одетый в полосатую футболку, в которой был похож на пчелу, и тромбонист группы однажды дал Гордону прозвище Sting (Жало), которое приклеилось к нему навсегда.

К моменту окончания трехлетних педагогических курсов Стинг уже прошел практику преподавания в средней школе, где было полно хорошеньких учениц. Именно этот жизненный период вдохновил его потом на создание песни 'Don't Stand So Close To Me', хотя он и утверждал, что никогда не допускал никаких непристойностей по отношению к школьницам. Получив диплом, Стинг стал учителем начальной школы в одном из шахтерских поселков, одновременно подрабатывая джазовыми выступлениями. Вскоре он превратился в местную знаменитость и вошел в состав знаменитого оркестра 'Newcastle Big Band'. В 1974 г. Стинг основал маленькую джаз-роковую группу под названием 'Last Exit'. Он начал писать песни и петь, разрабатывая собственную манеру пения высоким голосом, на которую, как он впоследствии признавался, в определенной степени повлиял стиль джазового вокала Клио Лейна.

В 1976 г. биг-бэнд, в котором играл Стинг, распался, а он сам женился на актрисе Френсис Томелти, которую впервые увидел на сцене во время рождественского шоу в Ньюкасле. В тот же период Стинг решил профессионально заняться музыкой и бросить работу в школе. Вместе с группой 'Last Exit' он отправился в Лондон, где дал несколько концертов, один из которых, проходивший в Лондонской школе экономики, был впервые замечен музыкальной прессой, получив отзыв Карла Далласа в 'Melody Maker'. Стингу также удалось заключить издательский контракт с 'Virgin Records', хотя компания не заинтересовалась группой. Стинг с коллегами вернулся в Ньюкасл, где по воле судьбы в это время оказался Стюарт Копленд. Он побывал на концерте группы в Ньюкаслском политехникуме. Группа ему не понравилась, но сам Стинг произвел на Стюарта большое впечатление. 'Он фантастически держался на сцене. Было просто очевидно, что у него огромный потенциал', - вспоминал потом Стюарт. Он потратил много времени на телефонные разговоры, чтобы переманить Стинга обратно в Лондон. Тот не устоял и, к досаде жены, поселился с ней и грудным ребенком в тесной квартирке одного из своих друзей.

Новая группа - Стинг, Стюарт и Генри - начала репетировать в квартире Стюарта, расположенной в лондонском квартале Мейфэр. Стинг вспоминал: 'Как музыкант я понимал, что идеи Стюарта были дерьмом'. Но, несмотря на подобное мнение, Стинга впечатляла энергия этого говорившего взахлеб американца. Идея была такова: создать много коротких, быстрых и энергичных номеров и пробиться с ними в панк-клубы, где все это и должно было звучать. Хотя было известно, что Генри как гитарист несколько ограничен, его игру отличало некое чувство, соответствующее канонам панка.

И Стюарт, и Стинг видели друг в друге целеустремленных, умных людей, которые вместе наверняка могут чего-нибудь добиться. Между ними могли быть трения и разногласия, но они понимали, что должны воспользоваться случаем, чтобы достичь наибольшего эффекта. Их первой записью была песня 'Fall Out' - шумный и стремительный панк-опус, где голос Стинга яростно схлестывался с напряженным басовым риффом. Там было много грохочущих тарелок и гитарных ходов, характерных скорее для 'The Who', чем для 'Sex Pistols'. Той же стихийной мощью пропитаны такие песни, как 'Nothing Achieving' и 'Dead End Job'. В дальнейшем Стинг вспоминал: 'Fall Out' была одной из первых песен, сыгранных мне Стюартом. Недостаток утонченности в этих песнях сполна искупался их энергией. Я просто решил оставить все, как есть, и спел их в самой жесткой манере, на какую был способен'. Стингу особенно нравилась 'Dead End Job', которую группа позднее записала с Энди Саммерсом.

Музыканты не считали себя 'псевдопанками'. В их игре было ровно столько же огня и ярости, сколько у других групп, выступавших в то время, и когда Стинг во все горло выкрикивал слова песен вроде 'Landlord' ('Домовладелец'), он делал это от чистого сердца. Как раз в тот период его и Френсис вышвырнули из дома, который они снимали.

'The Police' сами оплатили запись и выпуск 'Fall Out', у группы было две тысячи экземпляров сингла для продажи под ее собственным лейблом 'Illegal Records'. Затем она отправилась в тур на разогреве у американского панк-певца Черри Ванилла. Это привлекло к 'The Police' внимание прессы и дало ей ценный опыт концертной деятельности. Так начался период тяжелых поездок, без денег и признания, в течение весны 1977 г. Тем не менее вскоре был распродан весь первый тираж 'Fall Out', а позднее общее число проданных экземпляров сингла достигло ста тысяч.

В июне на выступление 'The Police' в клубе 'Marquee' пришел посмотреть Энди Саммерс. Он уже как-то участвовал в одном джэме со Стингом и Стюартом в группе 'Strontium 90', собравшейся только однажды для концерта в Париже по случаю воссоединения группы 'Gong'. На Энди сильно подействовало выступление группы, и он захотел присоединиться к ней. На некоторое время 'The Police' стала квартетом: Генри Падовани по-прежнему играл на гитаре, но он уже не справлялся с новыми песнями, которые писал Стинг. Группе был нужен гитарист, который сохранял бы энергию панка, но при этом играл технично и нестандартно. В конце концов новичок взял на себя ведущую роль, и 'The Police' вновь стала трио.

Энди Саммерс, он же Эндрю Джеймс Соумерс, родился 31 декабря 1942 г. в городе Пултон-ле-Филд, графство Ланкашир. Позднее семья переехала в Борнмут, где Энди занимался музыкой в школе. В возрасте семнадцати лет его заметил местный органист Зут Мани и взял к себе в легендарную группу 'Big Roll Band' - одну из лучших, игравших ритм-энд-блюз в шестидесятые. Она регулярно выступала в лондонском 'Flamingo Club'. Затем Энди играл с Зутом в другой группе, 'Dantalion Chariot', представлявшей из себя довольно смелую попытку влиться в движение хиппи.

Позднее он играл в 'New Animals' Эрика Бердона. Переехал в Штаты на шесть лет, изучал классическую гитару. После этого со своей второй женой Кейт Энди вернулся в Лондон, где, сменив свою фамилию на Саммерс, играл с Кевином Койном и участвовал в проектах типа 'Tubular Bells' Майка Олдфилда. Во время концертов Олдфилда в Ньюкасле Энди познакомился со Стингом, чей 'Last Exit' играл на разогреве. В 1976 г. Энди вошел в состав группы Кевина Айерса, но после новой встречи со Стингом и Стюартом Коплендом понял, что ему на роду написано быть частью 'The Police'.

Стинг, Стюарт и Энди сыграли свой первый совместный концерт на площадке 'Rebecca' в Бирмингеме 18 августа. К тому моменту они уже нашли свой 'фирменный' стиль, который их вскоре прославит, - синтез регги с рок-ритмами плюс широкое использование гитарных эхо-эффектов Энди. Затем последовала поездка по Европе, закончившаяся в Париже, где Стинг наблюдал за работой проституток в квартале 'красных фонарей'. Это вдохновило его на создание песни 'Roxanne'. В декабре группа за свой счет начала запись первого альбома 'Outlandos d'Amour'.

Последним компонентом, обеспечившим их дальнейший успех, финальным штрихом к их имиджу стало обязательство Стинга и Энди перекраситься в блондинов для телерекламы жевательной резинки 'Wrigley's'. Стюарт и так был блондином, и, благодаря похожим прическам одинакового цвета, все трое выглядели как братья. Наблюдатели с хорошей памятью не преминули заметить, что последняя из групп, сделавших себе капитал на одинаковых прическах, была родом из Ливерпуля и совершила революцию в поп-индустрии.

В начале 1978 г. Майлс Копленд, менеджер группы, заключил сделку по поводу выпуска 'Roxanne' в виде сингла, но песня не попала в хит-парады, так как группа в это время была в Германии и не могла участвовать в раскрутке сингла в Великобритании. Однако второй сингл 'The Police', 'Can't Stand Losing You', попал в число пятидесяти лучших. В октябре группа отправилась в первый тур по Америке, где дебютировала на CBGB. 'Outlandos d'Amour' вышел в свет в ноябре и достиг шестой позиции в британских хит-парадах.

'The Police' была на верном пути, вырвавшись из полуизвестности андерграунда на ясный свет общественного признания и популярности. Вдобавок Стинг шагнул к национальной славе, сыграв роль Мода (Стиляги) по имени Асе The Face в фильме группы 'The Who' 'Quadrophenia'. События последовали одно за другим. 'Roxanne' была переиздана и одним прыжком попала в первые ряды британских хит-парадов. После своего первого тура по Великобритании в феврале 1979 г. группа взялась за запись второго альбома 'Reggatta De Blanc', который включал два суперхита: 'Message In A Bottle' и 'Walking On The Moon'.

Сочетание высокого, как бы измученного голоса Стинга, пространственно-объемного звучания гитары Энди и нервной изобретательной игры Стюарта на ударных с потоком образных, создающих настроение песен, создавало эффект, устоять перед которым было невозможно. С этого момента группа доминировала в хит-парадах, без конца гастролировала по всему миру и наблюдала, как растет стопка золотых и платиновых альбомов и синглов в ее багаже. В то же время под умелым руководством менеджера Майлса Копленда музыканты 'The Police' стали зарабатывать гораздо больше, чем кто-либо из их современников.

После альбомов 'Zenyatta Mondatta', 'Ghost In The Machine' и 'Synchronicity' 'The Police' были физически, душевно и в какой-то степени творчески истощены. На протяжении 1984 г. от них ожидали выпуска живого концертного альбома, но он так и не появился. К 1985 г. группа фактически прекратила свое существование, и попытки записать новый альбом провалились.

Стинг начал свою сольную карьеру в июне 1985 г., выпустив альбом 'The Dream Of Blue Turtles', а затем 13 июля выступил без своей прежней группы на концерте 'Live Aid'. После распада 'The Police' Энди Саммерс записывал свои сольные альбомы в соавторстве с Робертом Фриппом, а Стюарт Копленд начал карьеру кинокомпозитора и даже написал оперу. 11 июня 1986 г. 'The Police' воссоединились, чтобы исполнить пять песен на концерте, организованном 'Amnesty International' в Атланте, штат Джорджия, как часть тура 'Conspiracy Of Hope' ('Заговор надежды'), в котором также участвовали 'U2' и Питер Гейбриэл. Это было их последнее появление на публике вместе. В июле 1986 г. группа направилась в одну из лондонских студий, предполагая записать шестой альбом, но из-за постоянных споров между Стингом и Стюартом им удалось завершить только одну запись, римейк песни 'Don't Stand So Close To Me', на что ушло три недели. Впоследствии Энди Саммерс охарактеризовал те сессии звукозаписи как 'настоящую пытку'. Энди и Стюарту было ясно, что Стинг не собирается сочинять новые песни для группы. Скоро пытка окончилась, и музыканты пошли каждый своим путем.

Хотя и Энди, и Стюарт взялись за собственные проекты, было очевидно, что их бывшего вокалиста ждал наиболее ощутимый успех. В скором времени он собрал превосходную джаз-роковую группу, состоявшую из одних только американских музыкантов, - она была нужна ему для студийной и гастрольной работы. Он был готов развивать свои музыкальные идеи без чужого вмешательства и внутренней борьбы. В течение последующих десяти лет Стинг достиг огромного успеха, хотя его личная популярность переживала и кратковременный спад, когда он, похоже, начинал воспринимать себя чересчур серьезно.

Временами Стинг тратил свои деньги и свободное время на важные общественные дела, что порой влекло за собой упреки в помпезности. Стингу приходилось уверять комментаторов, что в душе он простой человек, который просто обеспокоен тем, что видит в теленовостях и чувствует, что должен что-то предпринять. И Стингу действительно удалось спасти один из бразильских тропических лесов, который был его главной заботой. С некоторого времени в его музыке стало доминировать чувство мучительной тоски, характерное переживание кризиса середины жизни. Наиболее явно это выразилось в полном угрюмого самосозерцания альбоме 'Soul Cages' (1991). Однако ко времени выхода в свет 'Ten Summoner's Tales' (1993) чувство юмора, теплота и одухотворенность, которые всегда были важнейшей частью творчества Стинга, вернулись к нему.

На протяжении своей карьеры с 'The Police' и другими группами Гордон Самнер всегда взывал к интеллекту своей аудитории, стараясь не оскорблять ее. Одно дело - быть одаренным человеком, другое - найти в себе смелость подвергнуть свой талант испытанию. Все трое настежь распахнули свои сердца, и в этом был главный секрет триумфа 'The Police'... и Стинга.

КРИС УЭЛЧ Вест Викэм, Кент. 1995


Альбомы Police

Outlandos D'amour - Аутландос Д'амор

Outlandos d'Amour was the debut album from The Police. Recording started in January 1978 at Surrey Sound Studios and the album was released in October 1978 when it peaked at the #6 spot in the UK.

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

A&MAMLH 68502; выпущено: октябрь, 1978 год;
CD A&M CDA 68502; выпущено: март, 1989 год;
С
DМID 126; выпущено: август, 1991 год

Трио блондинов сверлило публику взглядом с обложки самого долгожданного дебютного альбома конца семидесятых. Этой пластинке было суждено указать путь в удивительное десятилетие - эпоху новых резких звуков, новых дерзких голосов, период экспансии и бума. Хотя 'The Police' родились на волне анархического инди-панковского движения, их отношение к действительности идеально соответствовало настроениям нарождающейся эпохи тэтчеризма и рейганомики. Конечно, Стинг, как поэт и гуманист, не согласился бы с таким безапелляционным утверждением, однако, бесспорно, огромный успех 'The Police', их стремление завоевать мир и прагматичность их подхода к жизни вполне соответствовали духу жестокой конкуренции восьмидесятых. Некоторые из ранних критиков 'The Police' жаловались, что музыка группы - слишком резкая и холодная. В самом деле, рок семидесятых, со своим беззаботным, приглушенным и усыпляющим саундом, уходил в прошлое.

То были времена, когда гнусавые вокалисты распевали о жизни 'в дороге', а барабаны и гитары звучали так, будто были замотаны скотчем и укутаны в одеялах заботливым техперсоналом с ватой в ушах. 'Outlandos d'Amour' демонстрировал торжество амбиций и свободы в сочетании с поразительной целеустремленностью и напором.

Тщательно прописанные песни Стинга, вроде 'Can't Stand Losing You', были интересными и остроумными, а смелый коктейль регги и панка произвел сенсацию. Альбом был записан на студии 'Surrey Sounds' и спродюсирован самими музыкантами с помощью инженеров Найджела и Криса Грея.

Работа началась в январе 1978 г. Стинг сочинил несколько песен, одна из которых казалась ему просто 'бросовым материалом'. Это была 'Roxanne', которая станет первым большим хитом группы, в конечном счете изменившим ее судьбу. Стинг вспоминал: 'Я не думал больше об этом, пока мы не дали послушать материал альбома Майлсу Копленду. Дойдя до 'Roxanne', мы слегка смутились, потому что песня была анахронизмом. По сравнению с остальным материалом она была медленной, тихой и мелодичной'. Вместо того чтобы отвергнуть песню, Копленд заявил, что она 'восхитительна'. Стинг был взволнован, а Майлс настолько воодушевился, что отнес песню на A&M, где ее согласились выпустить в качестве сингла. Это повлекло за собой заключение полноценного контракта с компанией.

Но песня практически не звучала в эфире. Несмотря на восторженные отзывы в музыкальной прессе, ВВС отказалась транслировать песню, рассказывающую о любви к проститутке. Только после выхода сингла в Америке 'Roxanne' вошла в британские списки лучших хитов, прокладывая дорогу для 'Outlandos d'Amour'. 'По поводу 'Roxanne' я был настроен очень решительно, потому что это - серьезная песня о реальных взаимоотношениях, - говорил Стинг. - Эту песню ни в каком смысле нельзя назвать непристойной'.

Песня родилась в результате поездки в Париж в октябре 1977 г. Группа играла там на разогреве у 'Wayne County' в крайне неудачном концерте, почти без зрителей. Стинг предпринял прогулку по кварталу 'красных фонарей' и был очарован видом красивых парижских проституток при полном параде. Он представил, каково было бы влюбиться в одну из этих женщин. К тому же Стинг влюбился в имя. Роксана - так звали жену Александра Великого и подружку Сирано де Бержерака!

Next To You - Рядом С Тобой

В этой полной кипучей энергии композиции, заставляющей вспомнить буйство 'Vortex Club', хорошо просматриваются панковские корни. Барабаны Стюарта Копленда, хотя и записаны на удивление 'плоско', выдают ритм с искрящейся энергией. По крайней мере понимаешь, что это настоящая ударная установка, -в 1978 г. не было 'сэмплирования'. Стинг радостно вопит под звуки слайдового гитарного соло Энди, решая извечную проблему влюбленных: 'What can I do... all I want is to be next to you!' ('Что мне делать... все, чего я хочу, - это быть рядом с тобой!') Короткая, потрясающе простая и одухотворенная композиция, вполне подходящая для того, чтобы представить молодую дерзкую группу многоопытному миру, ждущему впечатлений.

So Lonely - Такой Одинокий

Первое появление 'Reggatta De Blanc' - белого регги - и Стинг убеждает критиков, что ему не стоило труда воспринять этот стиль. С середины пятидесятых Англия, как никакая другая музыкальная держава, испытывала натиск вест-индийских музыкальных направлений - от калипсо и блю-бита вплоть до регги. Так или иначе было очень приятно узнать, что Бобу Марли понравилась 'The Police'. Впоследствии Стинг утверждал, что все в группе 'поголовно были фанами Боба Марли', а регги тогда был единственной положительной альтернативой панку с его настроениями нигилизма и анархии. Тема песни отдаленно напоминала 'No Woman No Cry' - использованием аккордов С, G, А Minor и F. Стинг залечивает свое разбитое сердце ('...nurse my broken heart') в совершенном одиночестве. Голос его звучит сдавленно, причем в высоком регистре, что грозит повреждением голосовых связок. Однако напряженные нотки в столь высоко звучащем голосе усиливают типичный для его манеры исполнения эффект страдания. Неожиданные смены темпа, причудливый характер игры Энди на гитаре - смесь завывающего рока с забавными ходами в духе кантри - во всем этом проявились самые характерные черты звучания группы. Вопли Стинга и его же бэк-вокал усиливаются, завершаясь поистине безумным апогеем.

Roxanne - Роксана

Один из самых мощных хитов десятилетия начинается со звуков смеха. 'Roxanne-you don't have to put on the red light' ('Роксана - тебе не нужно зажигать красный фонарь'), -ухмыляется Стинг с наилучшим ямайским акцентом, на который он способен. 'Those days are over. You don't have to sell your body to the night' ('Те дни прошли. Тебе не нужно продавать свое тело по ночам'). Позднее Стинг отрицал, что эта песня написана в стиле регги. 'На самом деле это танго! Но переходы от этого расслабленного прыгающего ритма к полноценному рок-н-роллу очень привлекали меня'.

Пульсация резаных звуков гитары на фоне как бы перевернутого вверх ногами и задом наперед ритма, задаваемого басом и ударными, заворожила публику после первой же прокрутки этой песни на радио. 'Roxanne' стала неофициальным хитом среди фанов группы задолго до появления в хит-парадах. Особенно удивляет в этой эпохальной песне ее простота, краткость и смелое использование эффекта полной тишины. Смутное чувство недосказанности, столь характерное для многих произведений группы, раскачивающийся взад-вперед ритм усиливают гипнотическую привлекательность песни. В старый как мир крик о любви Стинг вкладывает целую гамму образов, мыслей и чувств.

"I'd always wanted to make a connection between the energetic music of punk and more sophisticated musical forms. There was this amazingly aggressive music full of energy on the one hand, and I wanted to take it and bridge a gap between the interesting chords and harmonic variations and this wild energy. And what eventually allowed me to do it was listening to reggae. Bob Marley, especially. I saw a rhythmic connection between the fast bass of punk and the holes in reggae. I got interested in trying to write songs that combined these apparently diverse styles. I think we succeeded with Roxanne."

Melody Maker, 4/79

Hole In My Life - Дыра В Моей Жизни

'There's a hole in my life' ('В моей жизни -дыра'), - обнаруживает Стинг в номере, служащем контрапунктом к настроению, созданному 'Roxanne'. Стюарт задает бэк-бит, основанный на форшлаге, или предударе, когда два удара идут почти одновременно. Рифф Энди, базирующийся на одной ноте, заполняет собой скромное, лаконичное, но напряженное пространство одного из наименее притязательных номеров Стинга. Припев не лишен почти битловского высокопарного величия, но в целом песня слишком затянута и к тому же подпорчена бестолковой концовкой.

Peanuts - Пустяки

Копленд энергично берется за дело, а Стинг вставляет несколько поспешных и отрывочных фраз перед тем, как Энди выдает бесподобное соло, полное неожиданных поворотов. Его гневное настроение соответствует протестам Стинга, не желающего 'читать о старом друге' ('to read about a lifelong friend'), несомненно, какое-то газетное разоблачение, ставшее своего рода платой за славу. Атмосфера безумия нарастает, когда вступает лихорадочное соло сопрано-саксофона, и Стинг кратко цитирует старый джазовый стандарт 'Peanut Vendor'.

Can't Stand Losing You - He Смогу Вынести Потери Тебя

Еще одна из ранних вылазок группы на территорию регги, хотя основная тема явно контрастирует с фрагментами, полными хард-роковой энергии. Стихи Стинга рассказывают об опасностях бурного романа, который закончился весьма печально - принадлежавшие ему драгоценные пластинки разбиты вдребезги. Для полной ясности он добавляет: 'You'll be sorry when I'm dead and all this guilt will be on your head' ('Тебе будет жаль, когда я умру, и вся вина будет лежать на тебе'), - возникает мотив угрозы самоубийства, вызвавший некоторое оцепенение в коридорах рок-власти. И снова радиослужба ВВС с большой неохотой передавала в эфир это ритмическое обращение к нации, а безвкусный рисунок на конверте сингла, изображавший висельника, вряд ли способствовал изменению этого отношения. Но, в конце концов, вы же знаете - эти мальчишки...

Truth Hits Everybody - Правда Задевает Всех

Crow

 


Crowby Ted Hughes

"..."A Ted Hughes poem called "Truth Kills Everybody" gave me the idea for 'Truth Kills' in Last Exit which became Truth Hits Everybody on Outlandos D'Amour. Bring On The Night was originally called "Carrion Prince". I got the title from a Ted Hughes poem called King Of Carrion. It was about Pontius Pilate and so was the song originally..." - Sting-

Both Truth Kills Everybody and King Of Carrion appear in "Crow - From The Life and Songs of the Crow"

 

Несмотря на суматошный характер этого скорострельного рок-номера, среди общего гвалта выделяются некоторые фразы, например, слова 'I stepped outside of myself and felt so cold' ('Я шагнул за свои пределы и почувствовал холод'). Параллельно риффу ритм-гитары таинственно звенит колокол, а в некоторых открытых аккордах чувствуется сильное влияние 'The Who'. Тем не менее драйв песни всецело полисовский, а инженеры звукозаписи вволю оттянулись на громогласной концовке.

Born In The 50's - Рожденные В 50-Х

Номер не из самых примечательных, с достаточно банальной заглавной строчкой, хотя, может быть, такая оценка возникает в результате переизбытка в наши дни песен, спекулирующих на ностальгии по пятидесятым. У этой вещи более глубокие корни: надрывая глотку, Стинг поет о поколении, которое выросло в тени Бомбы. Но, несмотря на тематику - имеются в виду нюансы социального характера, - песня оставляет впечатление, что ее вполне мог бы напевать Брюс Спрингстин, полоща горло у себя в ванной.

Be My Girl - Sally - Будь Моей Девушкой - Салли

Комический эпизод в стиле мюзик-холла, в котором Энди Саммерс рассказывает о Салли - надувной кукле, ставшей его женой. Очень забавно.

Masoko Tanga - Масоко Танга

После дурашливой комической интерлюдии хорошо продуманная рок-разминка возвращает альбом в нужную колею, демонстрируя прекрасное владение бас-гитарой, изящную работу на хай-хэт, бонго, конга, технические изыски - вмонтированные куски пленки, пущенные задом наперед, - и один из крутейших джазовых наворотов Энди. Бесстыдное джазовое пение Стинга очень впечатляет. Здесь группа импровизирует безо всякой оглядки на коммерческие ограничения. Ни один продюсер в наши дни не позволит такого свободного творчества - и такого сюрреалистического финала. Эта нетривиальная композиция подчеркивает расхождение между потребностью группы в самовыражении и ее ролью в шоу-бизнесе. Любую гитарную рок-группу, которая осмелилась бы на такое в наше время, выставят за дверь студии и моментально заменят ее на сэмплеры, драм-машины и пластиковые стаканчики от кофе.

 


Reggatta De Blanc - Реггатта Де Бланк

Reggatta de Blanc was The Police's second album. Recording started in February 1979 at Surrey Sound Studios and the album was released in October 1979 when assisted by the release of the single Message In A Bottle and Walking On The Moon, it hit the #1 spot in the UK.

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

А&М АМLH 64792; выпущено: сентябрь, 1979 год;

CD A&M CDA 64792; выпущено: сентябрь, 1989 год;

CD A&M CDMID 127; выпущено: октябрь, 1992 год

К тому моменту, когда мир подхватил 'Roxanne' и 'Outlandos d'Amour', 'The Police' уже вовсю работала над своим вторым великим альбомом, который полностью оправдал все ожидания и вознес группу на новые высоты успеха и популярности. Стинг превзошел самого себя благодаря блестящим новым песням, таким, как запоминающаяся 'Message In A Bottle', где он проявляет невероятную изобретательность, и 'Walking On The Moon' - одна из вещей, создающих атмосферу (пусть даже у Луны нет атмосферы!). Да и кому нужен кислород, когда Стинг выбрасывает в поп-биосферу такую порцию жизненной энергии!

Группа начала работу над 'Reggatta De Blanc' в феврале 1979 г. В техническом отношении саунд стал заметно лучше по сравнению с записью 'Outlandos'. Инженер Найджел Грей переделал студию 'Surrey Sound', увеличив число каналов с шестнадцати до двадцати четырех. Группа могла позволить себе потратить 6000 фунтов на покупку студийного времени, которое в чистом виде составило четыре недели, правда, растянувшиеся на несколько месяцев. Однако поначалу запись давалась гораздо тяжелее, чем в прошлый раз. Группе не хватало законченных песен, хотя у Стинга уже были готовы три грандиозных номера, включая 'The Bed's Too Big Without You'. Стюарту и Стингу пришлось объединить усилия, чтобы укомплектовать альбом материалом вроде 'It's Alright For You'. Сессии звукозаписи были прерваны еще одним американским туром в апреле 1979 г., во время которого группа довольно неожиданно для себя сорвала огромный успех, a 'Roxanne' и 'Outlandos' начали свой путь вверх в хит-парадах. Альбом 'Reggatta De Blanc' сразу после выпуска взмыл на первую строчку британских хит-парадов, где продержался четыре недели в октябре 1979 г. Иметь этот самый альбом в сине-серебряной обложке в своей коллекции стало признаком хорошего тона.

Message In A Bottle - Послание В Бутылке

Довольно простая идея - как раз такая, что заставляет всех сочинителей песен воскликнуть: 'Как же это я не догадался написать такое?' Группа - явно на высоте, играет связно и уверенно, что не всегда удавалось в первом альбоме. Стинг поет в собственной неотшлифованной манере, но при этом все же ощущается влияние Марли. По сравнению с оригинальным виниловым вариантом на CD его голос звучит как будто немного ниже. Этим эффектом мы, по-видимому, обязаны причудам проигрывателей. Бас- и соло-гитара как бы вращаются в круговороте, подгоняя друг друга, в то время как Стинг поет главную тему. Затем группа резко повышает обороты, снова демонстрируя свою потрясающую способность превращать живое рок-выступление в настоящий хит. Странно, что у актера Стинга строчка 'Sending out an SOS' ('Посылаю SOS'; читается: 'Эс-О-Эс') звучит как 'Sending out a Nesso Ess'. Дикция, друг мой, дикция. Стинг объяснял, что 'Message' - это песня об одиночестве и отчуждении. 'Она - о поисках утешения и о том, что со всеми людьми происходит одно и то же. Парень на необитаемом острове бросает в море бутылку с посланием о том, что он один, и миллионы бутылок приплывают обратно, как бы говоря: 'Ну и что? Мы и сами такие!' 'Message In A Bottle' стала первым хитом номер один в истории группы.

"Composing is a very private thing. I don't get many of my songs from jamming. I just sit at home with a drum box. Voices Inside My Head came through a drum box. I had a Latin rhythm on the drum box, and started playing the guitar riff. Then I added a bass part. A lot of my compositions come from guitar parts. Message In A Bottle, that was a guitar riff. The way I write, I don't have a melody first and then fit words to it. Actually, what happens is that I write them both together. There's this magical moment where you have this series of chords, this progression, and suddenly the words and the music actually come together at the same time. There's no sort of welding one onto the other. There is no other melody for the chorus to Message In A Bottle. It just happened at the same time, so in a sense, I see the two as equal."
Musician, 12/81

Reggatta De Blanc - Реггатта Де Бланк

Белый регги, в отличие от белого хлеба, обладает замечательным вкусом и характером. По крайней мере, такой вывод напрашивается из этой стихии ритмов, не сдерживаемой текстом. У слушателя появляется возможность просто расслабиться и насладиться слаженной игрой пары Саммерс- Копленд. Изобретательность, с которой Стюарт использует другой конец палочки на малом барабане, не уступает последним опытам Арта Блейки.

Эта инструментальная пьеса стала частью концертного репертуара группы, еще когда второго альбома не было и в помине.

It's Alright For You - Для Тебя - Хорошо

В приподнятом настроении, чувствуя себя совсем по-панковски, 'The Police' сочинили песню, которая лучше других свидетельствует об их разностороннем музыкальном кругозоре. В кричащем, красноречивом вокальном исполнении Стинга можно услышать дилановские нотки, слегка приправленные интонациями Джонни Роттена. Но какую ерунду мы, критики, начинаем нести, вступая на неблагодарную тропу сравнений! На самом деле здесь перед нами Стинг, Энди и Стюарт, которые импровизируют и наслаждаются жизнью, пока все в ней не стало еще слишком сложным.

Bring On The Night - Принеси Ночь

Смешение вокалов сопрано и тенора достигнуто благодаря чуду 'дабл-трекинга' - наложения. Энди держит протяжную ноту, перед тем как ритм-секция вступает во всей своей красе. Изыски продолжаются, когда Стюарт начинает выстукивать лаконичный ритм на бас-барабане. Все это, в сущности, ни к чему особо не ведет, но песня идеально подходит для передышки.

Deathwish - Пожелание Смерти

Ударные выбивают ритм в духе Бо Диддли, а гитара Энди выдает каскад реверберирующих аккордов в песне, и все это скорее просто тянет время, чем расширяет границы нашего познания. 'Burning in the outside lane - people think that I'm insane' ('Горю на внешней полосе, - люди думают, что я сошел с ума'), - поет Стинг, рассуждая о невежливости на дорогах. Вероятно, из этого бы вышла недурная музыка для кино, но вряд ли песню можно отнести к наиболее осмысленным работам группы.

Walking On The Moon - Прогулка На Луне

Блеск и совершенство волшебного исполнения. Одно из самых запоминающихся вступлений, когда-либо записанных на магнитную пленку, - простая басовая линия и танцующая, подпрыгивающая тарелка хай-хэт. Оно и выводит Стинга на вокальную орбиту. Прошло уже десять лет после первой высадки на Луне, но эта песня безупречно передает как все еще сохранившееся благоговение перед покорением космического пространства, так и легкое головокружение, вызванное покорением пространства секса, любви и рок-н-ролла. Саунд группы настолько прозрачен, насколько это вообще возможно. Комментарий Стинга: 'Как трио мы поступали умно, не пытаясь создать впечатление, что нас в группе больше, а заставив неизбежные ограничения работать на нас. В песне 'Walking On The Moon' были такие большие черные дыры, а этот гитарный аккорд, на который набрел Энди, просто ошеломлял'. В декабре 1979 г. сингл с этой песней стал в Великобритании хитом номер один.

On Any Other Day - В Любой Другой День

Неудивительно, что столько говорилось о противоречиях между Стингом и Стюартом Коплендом по поводу материала. Если это - лучшее, на что был способен Стюарт, то Стинг имел полное право быть раздраженным. В оправдание песни можно сказать лишь одно: видимо, ее комичность была призвана составить контраст ирреальному настроению, созданному 'Walking On The Moon'. Но все равно удивительно, почему кто-то настоял на том, чтобы эта чепуха вошла в такой важный классический альбом. Стюарт необдуманно резко начинает песню, предупреждая: 'The other one's a complete bullshit' ('Дальше - полная хреновина').

The Bed's Тоо Big Without You - Кровать Слишком Широка Без Тебя

В третьем хите этого альбома Стюарт искупает свою вину превосходной работой на малом барабане, создавая фон для блуждающей басовой линии Стинга. Ясная идея, простое выражение.

Contact - Контакт

Бедствия продолжаются - очередная вещь от Стюарта Копленда, которую следовало забраковать еще в процессе работы на ней. В инструментальном плане она, конечно, хороша - с изменениями темпа, мрачными басовыми ходами и резаной, четкой игрой на ударных. Но текст никуда не годится, а мелодия явно сочинена на скорую руку.

Does Everyone Stare - Все Ли Смотрят Пристально

И все-таки еще одна песня Стюарта Копленда! Здесь он упоминает о действительно имеющейся у него привычке сверлить людей пристальным взглядом. Этому номеру в духе немецкого кабаре, построенному на фортепианном риффе с легким влиянием Лотте Ленья*, не находится места в альбоме 'The Police'. Он, по сути, совершенно расшатывает саму концепцию группы. Возможно, Стюарту стоило выпустить собственную десятидюймовую пластинку.

No Time This Time - В Это Время Нет Времени

После долгих занятий мартышкиным трудом на второй стороне оригинала альбома 'The Police' возвращаются в свою колею с этой восхитительно быстрой вещью, в которой Стюарт занимается тем, что умеет делать лучше всего, - великолепно играет на ударных, заканчивая четырехтактовыми брейками в бурном финале. Живой рок!
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* Лотте Ленья - Каролина Бламауэр (1905 - 1981), австрийская актриса и певица. Отличалась своеобразной непрофессиональной манерой пения, вносящей реалистическое начало в исполняемые ею роли, например в 'Трехгрошовой опере' Б. Брехта (1928). - Примеч. пер.


Zenyatta Mondatta - Зеньятта Мондатта

Zenyatta Mondatta was The Police's 'awkward' third album. Recording started in the summer of 1980, shortly after The Police's groundbreaking world tour finished, at Wisselwoord Studios in Hilversum, Holland. The album was released on Sting's birthday in October 1980, and made the #1 spot in the UK. The album was also the most successful to date for the band in the States, where it stayed in the top 20 for six months, achieving platinum status (1 million sales).

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

A&M AMLH 64831; выпущено: октябрь, 1980 год;
CD A&M CDA 64831; выпущено: сентябрь, 1986 год;
CD A&M СDМID 128; выпущено: октябрь, 1992 год

В своем третьем альбоме 'The Police' предстает в зрелом виде - это относится и к музыке, и к содержанию текстов, даже несмотря на то, что среди названий песен одно из самых незрелых в истории группы: 'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da'. Однако Стинг, автор большей части материала, имел основания для такой на первый взгляд банальности. Сам он объяснял это так: 'De Do Do Do' - это членораздельная песня о нечленораздельном состоянии. Так или иначе она стала настоящим хитом по обе стороны Атлантики'.

Стинг рассматривал текст этой песни как эксперимент в области наивного поп-искусства, ориентируясь на такие классические образцы простоты, как 'Da Do Ron Ron' 'The Ronettes' и 'Doo Wah Diddy' 'Manfred Mann'. 'Здесь нет попытки сообщить вам что-либо или исказить ваши представления, - говорил он. - Это просто звуки. В песне я попытался осмыслить и проанализировать, почему они воздействуют на человеческий слух столь эффективно'. К тому времени группа окончательно отказалась от использования тех или иных элементов панка. Стинг говорил об этом: 'Мы почувствовали, что сумеем забыть свое панковское прошлое и сможем делать ту музыку, которую действительно хотим'.

'Zenyatta Mondatta' записывался в студии 'Wisseloord' (Голландия) в основном из налоговых соображений. Продюсировался он самой группой с помощью инженера Найджела Грея. Как оказалось потом, альбом стал последней работой Найджела с 'The Police' вследствие его разногласий с менеджером Майлсом Коплендом.

Группа недавно завершила изнурительный мировой тур, включивший в себя поездки в Индию и Египет. Это историческое путешествие началось в январе 1980 г. и прошло по 37 городам в 19 странах. Возможно, это были крупнейшие рок-гастроли всех времен. Последнее выступление проходило на родине Стинга, в Ньюкасле, где на четыре тысячи билетов было сорок тысяч желающих.

За всей этой тяжелой работой у группы не находилось времени для написания новых песен, и со времени 'Reggatta De Blanc' Стинг сочинил только одну вещь, 'Driven To Tears'. Группа взяла двухмесячный отпуск, и Стинг укрылся в своем новом доме в Гэлвее, в Ирландии, чтобы поработать над альбомом. Он применил новый подход, осознавая, что в песнях предыдущих альбомов, вроде 'Outlandos d'Amour', отчасти проявился эгоцентризм их автора. 'В песнях на 'Outlandos' был только я, я, я, - вспоминал он. - На 'Zenyatta' я обратился к тому, что происходило вокруг меня. На первых порах я не видел мира и проявлял слишком большой интерес к себе'.

Однако с началом сессий стало ясно, что появились проблемы. Парни устали и не чувствовали вдохновения, поэтому им стоило многих усилий настроиться на работу и закончить альбом в срок. Позднее Стюарт Копленд признался: 'Мы откусили больше, чем могли прожевать. Мы закончили альбом в четыре часа утра того же дня, когда начинался наш следующий мировой тур'.

Несмотря на давление обстоятельств, а возможно, благодаря ему, группа создала много превосходной новой музыки, и осенью 1980 г. альбом сразу же занял первое место в британских хит-парадах и не уступал его четыре недели, a 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' стал хитом номер один. В Америке альбом шесть месяцев продержался в 'Top 20', одно время занимая пятую строку, и достиг платинового статуса благодаря миллиону проданных экземпляров.

Don't Stand So Close To Me - He Стой Так Близко Ко Мне

Раздается угрожающий монотонный гул, и перед нами одно из последних великих достижений Стинга в разработке полисовского песенного канона. Идея просто блестяща: рассказ об искушении и безысходности ('temptation, frustration'), царящих в отношениях между учителем и его любимой ученицей - этакой Лолитой в гимнастическом трико. Фактически Стинг заимствует идею Владимира Набокова, американского писателя, уроженца России, автора нашумевшей книги о запретной любви стареющего интеллектуала к двенадцатилетней девочке. Именно Набоков придумал слово 'нимфетка'. Никогда зловещее предостережение не выражалось Стингом более страстно, чем в характеристике такого человеческого порока, как сплетни и обвинения ('the accusations fly').

Хотя в начале своей карьеры Стинг работал учителем в школе, он категорически отрицал подобные отношения со своими ученицами - ему это и в голову не приходило. Песня скорее отражает ощутимое воздействие группы (когда она была в зените славы) на юных поклонниц. Другие члены группы не ударили в грязь лицом, и сингл разошелся миллионным тиражом в одной только Великобритании, а в апреле 1981 г. вошел также в десятку лучших в Штатах.

Driven To Tears - Доведен До Слез

Эта песня не что иное, как проявление гнева, вызванного зрелищем голодающих детей в странах 'третьего мира', которое Стинг увидел благодаря телевизионной технологии. Запад может заботиться о технологии, но не о еде. Стинг написал песню во время американского тура за пару лет до выхода альбома. От нее исходит волна беспредельного гнева.

When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around

КОГДА МИР РАЗВАЛИВАЕТСЯ, ТЫ КАК МОЖНО ЛУЧШЕ ИСПОЛЬЗУЕШЬ ТО, ЧТО ЕЩЕ СОХРАНИЛОСЬ ВОКРУГ ТЕБЯ

Перед нами пример того, как работает ритм-секция 'The Police', когда музыканты в ударе и просто оттягиваются с нескрываемым удовольствием. Все это-навык, приобретенный долгой практикой. В тексте песни Стинг демонстрирует новую для себя положительную оценку окружающего мира, утверждая, что смысл жизни - это нечто большее, чем заботы о бренной плоти.

Canary In A Coalmine -Канарейка В Угольной Шахте

Забавная вещица с неотразимо жизнерадостной гитарой и очаровательной музыкальной темой, которой соответствует саркастичный текст Стинга. Он сообщает предмету своих симпатий, что та ведет образ жизни, подобный вышеупомянутой канарейке, испытывая столь сильное головокружение, что идти по прямой линии для нее оказывается весьма трудным делом. Любопытная аналогия - возможно, Стинг вспоминал жизнь вблизи угольных разрезов своего родного Северо-востока.

Voices Inside My Head - Голоса У Меня В Голове

Где-то вдалеке в расслабленной манере поет Стинг, в то время как пара Саммерс - Копленд импровизирует в прославленном полисовском стиле, играя один из таких джэмов, которые могут длиться по нескольку часов, и при этом никто не потеряет интерес к происходящему. Стюарт выдает кое-что из тех своих энергичных подвижных отбивок, которые послужили источником вдохновения для целого поколения ударников, восхищали всех продюсеров и инженеров звукозаписи и, вероятнее всего, пролетели прямо мимо ушей широких масс слушателей.

Composing is a very private thing. I don't get many of my songs from jamming. I just sit at home with a drum box. Voices Inside My Head came through a drum box. I had a Latin rhythm on the drum box, and started playing the guitar riff. Then I added a bass part. A lot of my compositions come from guitar parts.

Musician, 12/81

Bombs Away - Бомбы Долой

Стюарт возвращается к амплуа автора песен и, по меньшей мере, реабилитирует себя за былые промахи, предпринимая атаку на солдафонов-милитаристов. 'The General scratches his belly and thinks, his pay is good but his officers stink... The President looks in the mirror and speaks, his shirts are clean but his country reeks' ('Генерал думает, почесывая брюхо, - ему платят хорошо, но от его офицеров смердит... Президент говорит, глядя в зеркало, - его рубашки ослепительны, но его страна опаршивела'). Вероятно, группа не планировала тур по горячим точкам планеты. Энди делает со своей гитарой все, что ему вздумается, на фоне скандирующего хора 'язычников' - представителей 'третьего мира'. Значительно лучше по сравнению с песнями Стюарта для 'Reggatta'.

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

Еще одно классическое вступление, в котором Энди и Стюарт акцентируют самые сильные стороны этой во всех отношениях простой, но весьма обаятельной вещицы, вошедшей в 'Top 10' в Штатах. Это был первый их большой хит за океаном со времен 'Roxanne'. Он продержался в списках лучших хитов журнала 'Billboard' 13 недель, начиная с появления там в ноябре 1980 г. В Великобритании сингл достиг пятой позиции в декабре. Стинг охотно объясняет, что бессмысленная фраза - это единственное, что влюбленный порой хочет сказать своей милой, стремясь отбросить прекрасные слова поэтов и наслаждаясь утраченной невинностью.

Behind My Camel - За Моим Верблюдом

Саммерс решает отвоевать господство Самнера и сочиняет эту загадочную гитарную тему для композиции, которая завоевала премию 'Грэми' в категории 'Лучшая инструментальная рок-композиция', последовав примеру 'Reggatta De Blanc'. Но на самом деле она не была лучшей. Энди мог бы сделать вещь куда более интересную.

Man In A Suitcase - Человек В Чемодане

Под шум вокзальных объявлений, раздающихся со всех сторон, Стинг жалуется на жизнь в 'чемодане'. 'Must I be a man with a stranger's face?' ('Должен ли я быть человеком с лицом странника?') - вопрошает он. Несомненно, песня намекает на агента группы, из Каира договаривающегося о концертах в Ньюкасле проездом через какую-нибудь тмутаракань.

Shadows In The Rain - Тени Под Дождем ( 2 вариант в сольном альбоме Стинга)

Возврат к регги в номере, отягощенном несколькими брякающими фортепианными нотами, явно не в исполнении Оскара Питерсона. У Энди, похоже, припадок в одной из комнат прямо по коридору. Признаки дорожной лихорадки или паранойи? Этой вещи место только в корзине со студийным мусором, рядом с бутылками из-под пива и всякими обертками от чизбургеров.

The Other Way Of Stopping - Останавливаться По-Другому

И вот заканчивается этот в целом удовлетворительный альбом, если не брать в расчет странных аномалий наподобие 'Shadows' или этого более или менее терпимого джэма, - еще одной лепты, внесенной человеком по имени С. Копленд. Кто знает, какие обстоятельства давили на группу в студии, если музыкантам приходилось записывать этакое вместо еще одного потрясающего номера, который понравился бы фанам, менеджеру группы и парню, разносившему чай? Если им не всегда удавалось найти золотую жилу, это только подчеркивало сущностную неустойчивость творческого процесса. Когда 'The Police' были в ударе, они изумляли. Когда искре гениальности не удавалось разгореться, они были просто людьми.


Ghost In The Machine - Призрак Внутри Машины

Ghost In The Machine was The Police's fourth album, recorded at Air Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. Recording started in June 1981 and again the album was released in October that year. The album topped the UK album chart and reached the #2 spot in the States where it stayed for six weeks.

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

А&М AMLK 63730; выпущено: октябрь, 1981 год;
CD A&M CDA 63730; выпущено: 1983 год;
CD А&М CDMID 162; выпущено: октябрь, 1992 год

На заре технодесятилетия восьмидесятых микропроцессоры и компьютеры стали входить в каждый дом, и экономический и научный прогресс ускорялся угрожающими темпами. Музыкальная индустрия одна из первых взяла на вооружение новые технологии. Саунд альбомов и синглов 'The Police' заметно прогрессировал по сравнению с плоским и неровным звучанием рок-записей предшествующих лет. Возможно, под впечатлением всех этих изменений и грядущего владычества компьютеров и рационального начала Стинг задумался о магии, иных мирах и духовной стороне человеческого 'я'. Он ощущал, что вмешательство электроники притупляет и искажает спектр человеческих чувств. Парадоксально, но было что-то магическое в смешении человеческой мысли и прыгающих электронов.

Возможно, в новых машинах присутствовали некие призраки, притаившиеся среди электронных схем за мерцающими экранами. В своих размышлениях Стинг находился под влиянием работ философа Артура Кёстлера. Название 'Ghost In The Machine' следует понимать как присутствие человеческого духа в музыке, выраженной посредством применения электронного арсенала студии звукозаписи. Это станет сквозной темой четвертого альбома группы.

К моменту начала работы над 'Ghost' 'The Police' достигли буквально всего в материальном плане. Их записи продавались миллионными тиражами, их самих бурно приветствовали во множестве стран, почитая как идолов. Результатом всего этого стало заметное давление, испытываемое каждым из музыкантов лично. Им не всегда удавалось найти вдохновение для создания новых песен. Они долгое время не появлялись в студии, пока Стинг снова не взялся за сочинительство. Он был сильно занят работой в кино и на телевидении, а также концертной деятельностью с 'The Police'. Наконец, 15 июля 1981 г. группа отправилась на остров Монтсеррат в Карибском бассейне, чтобы начать работу в AIR, знаменитой студии, основанной продюсером 'The Beatles' Джорджем Мартином.

Впервые со времен 'Outlandos d'Amour' у них был новый продюсер-инженер. Место Найджела Грея занял Хью Пэдэм, прославившийся своей работой с 'Genesis' и Филом Коллинзом. Пэдэм только что закончил работу над эпохальным альбомом Коллинза 'Face Value' и являлся убежденным приверженцем громкого и резкого барабанного саунда. Первопроходцами здесь были Фил и Питер Гейбриэл, которые решительно отвергли старый приглушенный саунд семидесятых. Пэдэма и 'The Police' свел друг с другом Энди Партридж из 'ХТС'. Хотя было решено сохранить прежний саунд 'The Police', материал альбома получился не такой нервный, как в 'Zenyatta Mondatta'. Инструментальный спектр группы расширился благодаря привлечению клавишных и наложению саксофонных риффов в исполнении Стинга, который брал уроки игры на этом инструменте.

'Ghost In The Machine', несмотря на наличие нескольких проходных вещей, сразу же возглавил британские списки лучших альбомов, а в Штатах на протяжении шести недель держался на втором месте. За выходом альбома последовало намного меньше концертов, чем обычно, и на какое-то время показалось, что группа распалась, чтобы каждый мог отдохнуть, обдумать собственное будущее и исследовать свое внутреннее 'я'.

Spirits In The Material World - духи в материальном мире

'Are there spirits in the material world?' ('Есть ли духи в материальном мире?') Стинга обвиняли в показном бравировании на основании его утверждения о том, что он в своей жизни прочел ряд серьезных книг. В данном случае это книги философов Артура Кёстлера и Карла Юнга. Их влиянием насквозь пропитан этот призрачный образец музыкальной алхимии и стихотворных исследований Стинга.

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - в любых мелочах она - волшебна

Ритм, задаваемый Стюартом при помощи прижатой тарелки хай-хэт и барабанной палочки, создает несколько заторможенное настроение, но басовый ход голосом умирающего лебедя возвещает поворот к более оживленному действу. В этой очаровательной песне Стинг - в своей стихии. Она полна беспрерывных смен направления и интригующих поворотов. Лаконичный исходный саунд расцвечен искрящимися фортепианными вкраплениями в исполнении Жана Русселя. В октябре 1981 г. эта превосходная песня о любви стала хитом номер один в Великобритании и заняла третью строчку в американском 'Top 40' журнала 'Billboard'.

Invisible Sun - невидимое солнце

Источником песни послужили события в Северной Ирландии в разгаре 'беспокойств'. Песня проникнута унылым, мрачным настроением. 'I don't want to play the part of a statistic on a Government chart' ('Я не хочу играть роль цифры в правительственной статистике'), - объясняет Стинг свою потребность сбежать из городского ада, каким представляется ему болезненное существование в мире насилия. Выйдя на сингле, песня заняла второе место в Великобритании. Примечательно, что ее не стали выпускать в Штатах. Довольно серьезную полемику вызвал запрет показа видеоклипа с этой песней в телепрограмме ВВС 'Top Of The Pops', что явно свидетельствует о политической и военной напряженности того периода. Непривычно просто, фанково звучащая гитара Энди гневно вопиет на фоне взрывоподобных ударов тарелок, а Стинг шлет нам свое негромкое послание протеста и надежды.

Hungry For You (J'aurais Toujours Faim De Toi) - Изголодался по тебе

В этой на удивление фанковой композиции, построенной на основе звучного басового и гитарного риффа и разнообразных бэк-битов, выдаваемых Стюартом, Стинг переходит на французский. В результате этот мрачный номер получился пугающе гипнотическим и, пожалуй, мог бы звучать до тех пор, пока планеты Солнечной системы не прекратят свое вращение и не упадут на Солнце. К счастью для нашего душевного здоровья, песня затихает по приказу Командора Пэдэма.

Demolition Man - подрывник

Если предыдущая композиция была простовато-фанковой, то эта демонстрирует новую степень виртуозности. Стинг выдает басовую линию монументального масштаба, используя устройство 'call and response', благодаря которому звучание группы становится эквивалентным саунду целого биг-бэнда, играющего свинговые риффы. Блюзовые гитарные партии в духе Клэптона, добавленные сюда Энди, - воспоминание о юности, растраченной на сцене клуба 'Soho' в далекие шестидесятые. Забавляясь, Стюарт, демонстрирует умение отбивать слабые доли на малом барабане и одновременно 'валять' на всех своих тарелках и тамтамах. Когда вокал затихает, начинается настоящий джэм на саксофоне и гитаре в лучших джазовых традициях. И у них хватает наглости начать все заново даже после того, как затихают последние звуки! Стинг сочинил эту песню, отдыхая в коттедже актера Питера 0'Тула. Известна версия песни в исполнении Грейс Джонс, записанная в 1981 г.

Тоо Much Information - слишком много информации

'Too much information going through my brain - driving me insane' ('Слишком много информации проходит через мой мозг - это сводит меня с ума'), -утверждает Стинг, жалуясь на избыток новостей и другой информации, которая переполняла мир еще до пришествия персональных компьютеров, телетекста, кабельного телевидения, мультимедиа и Интернет. В песне можно найти намеки на карибские ритмы и нотки юмора, которые смягчают нарастающую нервную взвинченность, наметившуюся в творчестве группы к тому моменту. Несомненно, этим 'The Police' обязана умиротворяющей обстановке на острове Монтсеррат.

Rehumanize yourself - очеловечь себя

В духе битвы с машинами, фашистами и всем тем, что портит пейзаж, Стинг интерпретирует песню Стюарта Копленда, советуя нам искать источник подлинной человечности. Приподнятое настроение песни во многом сохраняется благодаря звучному саксофону Стинга. Парни играют, словно наслаждаясь этой, по сути, быстрой танцевальной мелодией, идеально подходящей для свадеб или игры в лимбо.

One World (Not Three) - один мир - а не три

Резаные вест-индийские ритмы подхватываются саксофонными риффами в стиле ска и толково взаимодействующими между собой бас-барабаном и бас-гитарой, что создает невообразимый подъем настроения. 'One world is enough for all of us' ('Одного мира хватит нам всем') - в этих словах заключается главная идея, обрамленная настоящим джэмом в исполнении группы. Стюарт демонстрирует остроотточенные удары. Потрясающая вещь.

Omegaman - человек-омега

Это - композиция Энди Саммерса, по структуре довольно заметно отличающаяся от более привычного материала 'The Police'. Она выделяется необычными аккордами, оживленным темпом и быстро повторяющейся заключительной музыкальной фразой. 'Омега' - последняя буква греческого алфавита, и песня, вне всяких сомнений, посвящена последнему из людей, выжившему на Земле.

Secret journey - тайное путешествие

Meetings With Remarkable Men

 Гурджиев


Meetings with Remarkable Menby C I Gurdjieff

"...Secret Journey is a quasi-mystical song. You have to do something, go somewhere, to get outside yourself. I read the book "Meetings With Remarkable Men" which says you have to make a journey. It doesn't have to be a real journey, it can be a mental journey."..." - Sting



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В песне преобладает жутковатая атмосфера, порождающая образы клубящегося тумана и пейзажа, залитого луной. Это - очень стинговская песня, с присущим ему умным использованием простых мелодических зацепок, контрастирующих с более сложными пассажами. Но все-таки это не совсем на уровне 'Message In The Bottle'. Песня принадлежит к одной из 'мертвых зон', которые имеются даже в лучших альбомах 'The Police': их редко касается журналистское перо или сканирует лазерный луч исследователей.

Darkness - темнота

Довольно неплохая композиция Стюарта Копленда, начинающаяся с теплых, умиротворяющих аккордов, приятной басовой линии и активного использования тарелки хай-хэт. Затем наша поющая звезда демонстрирует безмятежное вокальное исполнение, в котором угадываются ланкаширские нотки Иона Андерсона из 'Yes'. Странно, однако, что всякий раз, когда группа исполняет материал, написанный не Стингом, присущие ей магия и чувство ориентации как-то теряются. Это вряд ли можно считать открытием, однако подобные наблюдения являются источником недоумения и терзаний для тех, кто всегда выступал за большую демократичность внутри 'The Police'. И все же-и Стюарт с Энди первыми согласятся с этим - как композитор Стинг, несомненно, был лучшим среди них. Его материал преобладал в репертуаре 'The Police', но, по словам Энди Саммерса, 'по этому поводу отнюдь не было разбитых сердец'.


Synchronicity - Синхронность

Да, пожалуй, без Карла Юнга этого не было бы. (yanko_slava@yahoo.com)

Synchronicity was The Police's final studio album. Work on the album commenced at the end of 1982, once again in Montserrat. Recording was difficult due to the well publicised personal tensions between the band members, but the album is considered by many to be a 'classic', and was released in June 1983. Aided by the killer single Every Breath You Take, the album soared to the #1 spot on both sides of the Atlantic. Indeed, the album stayed at the top of US chart for an incredible 17 weeks.

Synchronicity

 


Synchronicityby Carl Jung

"...Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist who developed a dream theory, after Freud. He worked for Freud but parted the ways with him, and he's probably most known for his theory of synchronicity, which is the theory of meaningful coincidence. All of us have examples in our lives of coincidence - you meet someone, someplace and their father knew your father. Everyone has examples of this. Jung managed to weave a theory around the meaning of these things, somehow existence was kind of holographic and everything was connected to everything else and that there were no real accidents, everything had a sort of meaning. As an artist, as a writer I think it's good to embrace this kind of thing because it means that any observation that you make has some sort of meaning. It has to. Carl Jung came along in my reading at a time when I probably needed it. I was in the first flush of success in the Police, it was the most successful time of my life and probably the most unhappy. I was miserable, everything was going right for me and my life was falling apart at the seams. This book just sort of coincidentally turned up and I started to read it, and I started to analyse my dreams and ended up going to a Jungian analyst to try and figure out what the hell I was doing and who I was, and where I'd been, and I found it very useful. I sort of channelled all of this information into my songs, starting to use dream imagery in my work. It was fun. Whether it was therapeutic, I don't know. It was fun, and I'm here now and I'm reasonably sane, twenty years later, and I think Carl Jung can take responsibility for that..." - Sting-
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ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

А&М; выпущено: июнь, 1983 год;
CDA&M CDA 63735; выпущено: июнь, 1983 год

К моменту выхода в свет альбома 'Synchronicity' положение 'The Police' в мире поп-музыки было, казалось, нерушимым, и группа имела все, к чему стремилась. Однако только немногие знали о застарелой антипатии между очень самостоятельными и талантливыми членами группы. Соперничество между Стингом и Стюартом по поводу управления группой не прекращалось ни на минуту, и поскольку оба были властными натурами, никто не желал отступать от своего. О чем ни заходила речь - о темпе исполнения, использовании клавишных или синтезатора, выбора песни, - всегда возникал повод для споров и склок.

При записи этого альбома, как и предыдущего, участники группы испытывали давление личных проблем, включая разводы, и Стингу, конечно, не терпелось начать сольную карьеру, чтобы, как и в кино, ощущать свою независимость. Возможно, музыканты чувствовали, что сделали все, что могли сделать в рамках 'The Police'. Группа сформировала их в творческом плане, принесла им огромный успех, к тому же попутно они насочиняли массу великолепных вещей. Но искре вдохновения не всегда удавалось воспламениться, и Сгинг заявил: 'Как только это станет мне обузой - я уйду'. Что и случилось после выхода 'Synchronicity'. Хотя 'The Police' начала работу над следующим альбомом, который планировалось выпустить в 1984 г., этим планам не суждено было сбыться.

Работа над материалом к новому альбому началась в первые недели 1982 г., когда Стинг арендовал поместье 'Golden Eye' ('Золотой глаз'), ранее принадлежавшее Яну Флемингу. Сидя за тем же столом, за которым Флеминг писал истории о Джеймсе Бонде, рок-композитор сочинял песни,предназначенные для 'Synchronicity'. В конце года группа собралась на острове Монтсеррат, имея в своем арсенале примерно двадцать песен, и много репетировала с новым материалом. Они поставили себе цель выяснить, какая из песен будет звучать лучше, и придумать подходящие аранжировки. Самыми удачными были, конечно, песни Стинга, но было отобрано и по одной песне Стюарта и Энди.

"Following my awful separation from my wife actress Frances Tomelty in the early '80s, I went to Jamaica to escape, and I stayed at Golden Eye, the old Ian Fleming house in Oracabessa that Chris Blackwell of Island owns. While I was there, I sat at Fleming's old wooden desk overlooking the ocean, the one at which he wrote all his James Bond books, and I wrote Every Breath You Take, King Of Pain, Wrapped Around Your Finger, all these neat songs. And that was also the first time tried I sensimilla. I brought those songs to Montserrat and we cut Synchronicity."
Spin, 7/85

На протяжении шести недель музыканты усердно трудились над материалом, что давалось не всегда легко. Как позднее рассказывал Энди Саммерс, заглавный номер писался так трудно, что они со Стюартом оставили работу до утра и пошли спать. На следующее утро они обнаружили, что Стинг проработал над песней всю ночь, оставаясь в студии до рассвета, пока все не сделал. Эта песня особенно много значила для него лично, так как имела отношение к его размышлениям над теорией философа Карла Юнга. Незадолго до этого Стинг прошел курс психотерапии по методу Юнга, пытаясь справиться с травмами, причиненными разводом.

Безусловно лучшей песней альбома стала 'Every Breath You Take', затмившая все остальные. Группа помогла Стингу правильно расставить акценты, позволившие соединить лаконичную простоту с глубиной воздействия. Гитарная тема Энди Саммерса в окончательной версии получилась очень вдохновенной.

И сингл, и альбом возглавили хит-парады во всем мире. В Штатах 'Every Breath You Take' была хитом номер один девять недель, а альбом продержался на первой строчке невероятное количество недель - семнадцать! И это несмотря на конкуренцию со стороны мега-бестселлера Майкла Джексона 'Thriller'. В 1984 г. 'Every Breath You Take' завоевала премию 'Грэми' в категории 'Лучшая песня года'. Стинг оказался прав, когда говорил: 'Я знал, что это будет хит номер один!'

Synchronicity I - синхронность 1

Темп, напряжение и накладывающиеся друг на друга жесткие риффы - это главные составляющие напористого, мощного заглавного номера. Безудержный, похожий на строки телеграммы, текст посвящен событиям, происходящим одновременно в разных местах. На такие идеи Стинга вдохновило прочтение книг Карла Юнга, швейцарского психиатра (1875 -1961), который работал в Цюрихском институте сознания. Именно Юнг первым употребил термин 'комплекс' в своей работе 'Исследования ассоциаций слов'. Он был другом Зигмунда Фрейда до тех пор, пока в 1913 г. они не разорвали отношения из-за строго сексуальной трактовки либидо Фрейдом. С той поры старик Юнг работал над развитием теории психической энергии, опираясь на сновидения и рисунки своих пациентов и смыкаясь с современной физикой в своих идеях синхронности. Стинг поет о 'разделенной любви' и других аспектах загадок пространства, времени и чувственного влечения.

Walking In Your Footsteps - за тобой след в след

Песня о наших первобытных предках, которые пятнадцать миллионов лет назад отправились в путь, приведший к появлению современного человека. Флейты, человекоподобные завывания и барабаны конга создают подходящую 'первобытную' атмосферу. Если верить Стингу, нашими предками были динозавры, и это несмотря на то, что, согласно большинству книг, люди никогда не были современниками динозавров, вымерших задолго до появления изобретателей огня, колеса и компьютерных игр. Как бы то ни было, песня остается одним из самых необычных опытов группы, свободным от полисовских канонов.

О My God - о боже мой

Возвращение к старым полисовским идеям, в котором можно услышать отголоски 'The Bed's Too Big Without You' и 'Demolition Man'.

Голос Стинга звучит несколько хрипло и напряженно, в то время как риффы, хотя и сыгранные с известной настойчивостью, вызывают сильные симптомы дежа вю*[2]. Мы точно здесь уже когда-то были, но, если отвлечься от мрачной саксофонной интерлюдии, сюда по-прежнему приятно приходить.

Mother - мать

Саммерс за работой, но, к сожалению, с воистину кошмарным результатом. Энди буквально вопит: 'The telephone is ringing. Is that my mother on the phone?' ('Звонит телефон. Неужели это моя мать звонит?') Психоз, вполне достойный 'Talking Heads'. Может, это сработало бы в альбоме Роберта Фриппа, но, говоря словами Найджела Тафнелла из 'Spinal Tap', - 'лучше забудем'.

[как-то вместо Наташа - я крикнул - Мама! Вот об этом эта песня. Чудно. У Фрейда есть версия на этот счет, но это тоже версия J]

Miss Gradenko - мисс граденко

Почти погубив альбом предыдущей композицией, Энди ограничивается здесь не-

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* Дежа вю (
deja vu - фр.) - навязчивое ощущение 'припоминания' событий, в действительности происходящих впервые. - Примеч. пер.

сколькими вымученными и беспорядочными гитарными нотами, заставляя нас предположить, что он переживал в то время что-то вроде внутреннего кризиса. В этот раз ущерб ограничивается 'проходной' песней Стюарта Копленда, исполненной исключительно буднично. 'Is anybody alive in here? Nobody but us!' ('Есть здесь кто-нибудь живой? Никого, кроме нас!') - в этих словах выражена суть песни. Мрачно.

Synchronicity II - синхронность II

В этой песне Стинга несколько странное сюрреалистическое вступление, но в целом в ней преобладает маккартниевское настроение. Эта вещь - одна из тех, что помогает слушателям воспрянуть духом и восстанавливает веру в группу. Здесь Стюарт энергично берется за дело и с дьявольской энергией колотит по барабанам, а Энди играет на гитаре со всем присущим ему магическим чувством и вдохновением. Когда группа в настроении, у нее все получается. Тема песни вновь отсылает нас к Карлу Юнгу.

Every Breath You Take - каждый твой вздох

В каждом альбоме 'The Police' есть хотя бы один или два классических суперхита, но удивительно, что именно 'Synchronicity', оказавшийся последним и самым неровным альбомом группы, подарил миру, возможно, самую лучшую из всех песен группы. 'Every Breath You Take'- несомненно шедевр. Совершенная в плане композиции, с плавной последовательностью чарующих аккордов и мелодией, которая выявляет лучшие вокальные интонации Стинга. Волнующая, трогательная лирика никогда не перестанет задевать самые чувствительные струны души. Композиция стала величайшим образцом песенного творчества, и хотя на первый взгляд это нежная романтическая баллада, в ней есть подлинность и глубина, связанные с размышлениями Стинга о любви, превращающейся в ревность.

King Of Pain - король боли

По степени эмоционального воздействия ничто не может сравниться с простой песней, исполняемой под минимальный аккомпанемент. Голос Стинга звучит так, словно эта песня - репетиция его предстоящей сольной карьеры. Вначале слышен только его голос в сопровождении фортепьяно с нажатой педалью. 'There's a little black spot on the sun today' ('На солнце сегодня черное пятнышко'), - загадочно сообщает он под тихий клекот маримба. 'It's the same old thing as yesterday' ('Сегодня все то же, что и вчера'), - объясняет он, в то время как группа, оживляясь, развивает тему. По-моему, Стинг имеет в виду те темные пятна в душах людей, которые омрачают чистоту переживаний любви и причиняют боль тем, кто рассчитывает на безраздельное внимание. Такова моя теория. Альтернативные мнения высылайте на открытках, пожалуйста.

Wrapped Around Your Finger - у тебя на пальце

Хотя группа стремилась ограничить влияние 'Reggatta De Blanc' на 'Synchronicity', здесь явно присутствует приподнятое 'карибское' настроение, навевающее мысли о роме, кока-коле и способах уклонения от налогов. Но эта нежная, наполненная романтическими образами песня вовсе не о том. В ней Стинг поет от лица молодого паренька, стремящегося узнать то, чему не учат в школе. В этом ему помогает замужняя женщина, о чем можно судить по кольцу на ее пальце. 'I will listen hard to your tuition' ('Я буду прилежно слушать все, чему ты учишь'), - поет Стинг под аккомпанемент страстного чувственного ритма. Несомненно, эта песня потребовала много работы.

Tea In The Sahara - чай в сахаре

The Sheltering Sky

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The Sheltering Skyby Paul Bowles

"...Paul Bowles has written very many books but he wrote a book called "The Sheltering Sky" which became a film by Bertolucci, a few years ago. I read it long before it was a film. It's one of those most beautiful, sustained, poetic novels I've ever read. It's about Americans that regard themselves as travellers and not tourists, and I class myself in that category. I'm a hopeless tourist, but I'm constantly on the move. There was a story within that story - that was a sort of Arab legend that was told in the story of three sister who invite a prince to a tea party out in the desert to have tea, tea in the Sahara. They have tea, and it's wonderful, and he promises to come back and he never does. They just wait and wait and wait until it's too late. I just loved this story and wrote a song called Tea In The Sahara. I don't know whether Paul Bowles ever heard it, probably not, but it's still one of my favourite songs..." - Sting
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И вот мы прощаемся с группой 'The Police', по крайней мере, с ее студийными работами. Впереди еще будет множество сборников и концертных альбомов, но финальный занавес опускается именно сейчас. Последнее 'прощай' окрашено в мрачные тона:

Стинг погружается в настроение, навеянное пульсирующим ритмом пустыни, в котором как будто слышится неровная поступь верблюда, бредущего в тени пирамид. Названием песня обязана роману Пола Боулза 'The Sheltering Sky' ('Гостеприимное небо').

Энди Саммерс усугубляет настроение, используя в своей игре на гитаре эффект эхо-плекс, рождающий образы струящегося марева. Позднее Стинг признался, что это одна из его самых любимых песен, хотя в альбоме она исполнена 'слишком быстро'. Темп исполнения всегда был яблоком раздора между враждующими фракциями Стинга и Стюарта.


The Police: Greatest Hits - Полис: Лучшие Хиты

A&M CD 5400302; выпущено: сентябрь, 1992 год

Альбом 'The Police': Greatest Hits' нового стандарта включает в себя следующие песни: 'Roxanne', 'Can't Stand Losing You', 'So Lonely', 'Message In A Bottle', 'Walking On The Moon', 'The Bed's Too Big Without You', 'Don't Stand So Close To Me', 'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da', 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic', 'Invisible Sun', 'Spirits In The Material World', 'Synchronicity II', 'Every Breath You Take', 'King Of Pain', 'Wrapped Around Your Finger', 'Tea In The Sahara'.

В октябре 1986 г. вышел предшественник этого сборника, похожий на него, под названием 'Every Breath You Take (The Singles)'

(A&M CD EVECD1). В него входили: 'Roxanne', 'Can't Stand Losing You', 'So Lonely', 'Message In A Bottle', 'Walking On The Moon', 'Don't Stand So Close To Me', 'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da', 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic', 'Invisible Sun', 'Spirits In The Material World', 'Every Breath You Take', 'King Of Pain', 'Wrapped Around Your Finger', 'So Lonely'.


Message In A Box - Послание В Ящике

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

А&М 540 150-2; выпущено: 1993 год

Полное собрание записей 'The Police'

Вышедший ограниченным тиражом и заново сведенный на цифровой аппаратуре ('digitally remastered') комплект из четырех CD со всеми песнями, которые выпустила 'The Police', включая их дебютный сингл 'Fall Out' и новую версию 'Don't Stand So Close To Me'. В него также вошли все композиции, записанные на обратных сторонах синглов и не включавшиеся в альбомы, различные живые версии из сборников исполнителей новой волны. Этот прекрасный сувенирный набор дополняет иллюстрированная книга, хотя было бы чудесно, если б альбом содержал больше отбракованного репетиционного материала, не выходивших ранее песен и концертных номеров.

ПОЛНЫЙ СПИСОК ПЕСЕН В ПОРЯДКЕ СЛЕДОВАНИЯ:

CD1:1. 'Fall Out' 2. 'Nothing Achieving' 3. 'Dead End Job' 4. 'Next To You' 5. 'So Lonely' 6. 'Roxanne' 7. 'Hole In My Life' 8. 'Peanuts' 9. 'Can't Stand Losing You' 10. 'Truth Hits Everybody' 11. 'Born In The 50's' 12. 'Be My Girl - Sally' 13. 'Masoko Tanga' 14. 'Landlord (Live)' 15. 'Next To You (Live)' 16. 'Landlord' 17. 'Message In A Bottle' 18. 'Reggatta De Blanc' 19. 'It's Alright For You' 20. 'Bring On The Night' 21. 'Deathwish'

CD2:1. 'Walking On The Moon' 2. 'On Any Other Day' 3. 'The Bed's Too Big Without You' 4. 'Contact' 5. 'Does Everyone Stare' 6. 'No Time This Time' 7. 'Visions Of The Night' 8. 'The Bed's Too Big Without You (Mono)' 9. 'Truth Hits Everybody (Live)' 10. 'Friends' 11. 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' 12. 'Driven To Tears' 13. 'When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around' 14. 'Canary In A Coalmine' 15. 'Voices Inside My Head' 16. 'Bombs Away' 17. 'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da' 18. 'Behind My Camel' 19. 'Man In A Suitcase' 20. 'Shadows In The Rain' 21. 'The Other Way Of Stopping'

CD3: 1. 'A Sermon' 2. 'Driven To Tears (Live)' 3. 'Shambelle' 4. 'Spirits In The Material World' 5. 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' 6. 'Invisible Sun' 7. 'Hungry For You (j'aurais toujours faim de toi)' 8. 'Demolition Man' 9. 'Too Much Information' 10. 'Rehu-manise Yourself' 11. 'One World (Not Three)' 12. 'Omegaman' 13. 'Secret Journey' 14. 'Darkness' 15. 'Flexible Strategies' 16. 'Low Life' 17. 'How Stupid Mr. Bates' 18. 'A Kind Of Loving'

CD4:1. 'Synchronicity I' 2. 'Walking In Your Footsteps' 3. 'О My God' 4. 'Mother' 5. 'Miss Gradenko' 6. 'Synchronicity II' 7. 'Every Breath You Take' 8. 'King Of Pain' 9. 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' 10. 'Tea In The Sahara' 11. 'Murder By Numbers' 12. 'Man In A Suitcase (Live)' 13. 'Someone To Talk To' 14. 'Message In A Bottle (Live)' 15. 'I Burn For You' 16. 'Once Upon A Daydream' 17. 'Tea In The Sahara (Live)' 18. 'Don't Stand So Close To Me'86'

Песни, Не Включавшиеся В Альбомы The Police:

Fall Out - Осадки

Дебютный сингл группы в стиле 'сделай сам', вышедший в 1977 г., в эпоху расцвета панк-рока, и полный драйва и энергии новой волны. С этой песни 'The Police' начала свои репетиции, и это была самая первая запись группы. На самом деле большинство гитарных партий здесь записано Стюартом Коплендом, а основное соло играет Генри Падовани. По словам Стюарта, 'когда в группу пришел Энди, моя гитара вернулась обратно в чулан'.

Позднее Стинг говорил о 'Fall Out': 'Этой вещью мы всецело обязаны энергии и устремлениям Стюарта'. Сейчас и не вспомнишь, но когда 'The Police' в свое время штурмовали площадки клубов с песнями вроде 'Fall Out', они были совершенно никому не известны. Безусловно, агрессивная энергия и одаренность молодых музыкантов заставили насторожиться других панков.

Nothing Achieving - Все Безуспешно

Злой басовый рифф - и Синг издает гортанный боевой клич. Даже в самых панковых номерах его вокальное исполнение настолько сложно и технично, что для большинства брызгавших слюнями горлодеров того времени оно было просто непонятно и тем более невозможно было Стингу подражать. Текст написан братом Стюарта Яном с некоторыми добавлениями, сделанными Стингом и Стюартом.

Dead End Job - Тупиковая Работа

'I don't want to be no teacher, don't want to be no slave!' ('Я не хочу быть учителем, не хочу быть рабом!') - выкрикивает Стинг в одной из своих любимых песен того периода - скоростной, неистовой и буйной. В те годы полной занятости люди могли позволить себе жаловаться на 'тупиковую работу'. Через пару лет, с наступлением тэтче-ровских восьмидесятых, многие будут рады любому месту. В безумной заключительной части песни Энди Саммерс с ланкаширским акцентом зачитывает объявления о вакансиях из местной газеты. Судя по всему, это единственный случай, когда Стинг был доволен вокалом Энди.

Главный рифф придумал Стюарт, причем еще в школьные годы. Джон Кейл продюсировал раннюю версию этой песни, но здесь перед нами вариант, записанный уже с участием Энди Саммерса, исполняющего партию на гитаре.

Landlord (Live) - Домовладелец

Концертная версия сверхскоростного безумного номера, заряженного энергией, отличающегося яркостью и живым темпераментом. В каком-то смысле жаль, что 'The Police' не сохранили такого рода простоту. Они могли бы остаться счастливыми маленькими суперзвездами, если бы не затерялись среди юнговских 'голубых верблюдов пустыни'. Стюарт сочинил рифф, а текст, принадлежащий Стингу, был непосредственной реакцией на историю выселения его с женой Френсис из дома, который они снимали. 'Stay out of your seats!' ('Вставайте с мест!') - командует Стюарт зрителям, подавая группе сигнал к началу песни. Известно, что 'The Police' любили отдавать со сцены всякие распоряжения. Неистовое соло Энди потрясло бы всех участников 'Big Roll Band' Зута Мани.

Next To You (Live) - Рядом С Тобой

Неотшлифованная, яростная, скоростная версия энергичного номера, известного нам по 'Outlandos d'Amour'. Хотя она и звучит немного несыгранно, сквозь шквал ударных и рев гитары здесь слышатся отчаянные усилия произвести впечатление на Америку. 'Goodnight New York City!' ('Добрый вечер, Нью-Йорк!') - вопит Стинг, представляя группу публике. Усталый и выдохшийся, он выпаливает: 'Thank you Bottom Line' ('Спасибо, и напоследок...') -и группа неутомимо повторяет припев, завершая песню взрывом ударных. Вы почти чувствуете жаркое дыхание группы в этой зажигательной, удивительно удачной записи. Говорят, первоначальный текст Энди и Стюарта был гораздо агрессивнее, но Стинг ввел в песню любовный мотив. Слово Стюарту: 'Мы были не против песни о любви, лишь бы он в ней орал поагрессивнее!'

Landlord - Домовладелец доп. 2

В студийной версии пронзительный визг гитары напоминает азбуку Морзе, а темп ускоряется в масштабах, непозволительных в нашу эпоху господства драм-машин.

Стинг с позиций парня, лишенного средств к существованию, нападает на средний класс и поколение отцов - мещан-паразитов, отравляющих его жизнь. Гитарная кода - это настоящий блюз.

Visions Of The Night - Ночные Видения

Первая песня, которую Стинг написал после переезда из Ньюкасла в Лондон. Она не лишена грубоватого очарования, но самое интересное в ней - влияние 'The Who' - творчества Тауншенда - Долтри периода 'Quadrophenia'. Привычное однообразие панка разбавлено интересными неординарными идеями, подкрепленными творческими находками Энди. Он никогда не шел избитыми путями, даже в самых простых песнях.

The Bed's Too Big Without You (Mono) - Кровать Слишком Широка Без Тебя

'All I made was one mistake - now the bed's too big - without you' ('Я допустил лишь одну ошибку - теперь кровать слишком широка - без тебя'), - пронзительно визжит Стинг в лучших традициях регги. Эти очень личные слова способны выжать слезу из самых черствых душ. По сравнению с первой версией из альбома 'Reggatta De Blanc' эта более непосредственна. Басовой линии придан несколько зловещий оттенок, Стюарт импровизирует на тарелках хай-хэт, а Энди отлично выдерживает подходящий для регги подвижный, беззаботный ритм.

Truth Hits Everybody (Live) - Правда Задевает Всех

В этой концертной версии песни из альбома 'Outlandos d'Amour' 'The Police' выдерживают свой яростный скоростной стиль, играя совершенно по-панковски.

Очень интересно слышать, как Стинг и Стюарт не могут поделить право представить песню публике: реплика одного 'Nice to be back' ('Приятно вернуться назад') прерывается воодушевленным '1,2,3,4!' другого. Стинг внимателен к тексту, несмотря на суматошную обстановку концерта. Проницательные юноши, обучающиеся игре на ударных, отметят виртуозную работу Стюарта на бас-барабане, а гитаристы изойдут слюной от зависти к ревущему крещендо Энди.

Friends - Друзья

Предвосхищая 'Молчание ягнят' на несколько лет, Энди Саммерс с жутким деревенским акцентом заявляет: 'I likes to eat my friends -1 make no bones about it' ('Я люблю есть своих друзей - с этим я не церемонюсь'). Странное занятие. Сам Энди называет это 'иронией по поводу страшных детских историй'. По его словам, он сочинил песню после прочтения фантастического романа Роберта Хайнлайна 'Чужак в чужом краю'.

A Sermon - Проповедь

Удивительно, до чего часто в ранних работах группы чувствуется влияние 'The Who' - особенно в том, что касается кричащего, слегка небрежного вокала. Если бы Долтри и Тауншенд спорили о чем-то на сцене, это было бы весьма похоже на то, что мы слышим здесь. К нашему удивлению, ударник Копленд исполняет в этом номере главный гитарный рифф, и его стиль идеально соответствует звучанию в духе 'Ramones'. В песне поется о недавно пробившихся в звезды рокерах, поносящих все и вся. Они заплатили за все сполна и теперь пытаются взять реванш.

Driven To Tears (Live) - Доведен До Слез

По сравнению со студийной версией эта трактовка песни более мрачная и текучая, Стинг написал ее в дороге, а не где-нибудь в деревенском доме. Энди Саммерс исполняет отличное соло, короткое, но полное страсти. 'Мы всегда давали ему не больше восьми тактов', - вспоминал потом Стинг. Кроме этого соло Стингу, по его словам, запомнилось, что на этом концерте он угрожал убить кого-то из первого ряда, швырнувшего камень на сцену.

Shambelle - Шамбдла

Великолепная инструментальная композиция Энди Саммерса, несомненно, призванная компенсировать ограничения на соло во время концертов. Стинг задает монотонную басовую линию, а Энди в это время по большей части демонстрирует последовательность аккордов, создающих странную пугающую атмосферу. Обратные стороны синглов, где появлялись вещи, подобные 'Sham-belle', давали Энди возможность поэкспериментировать с новыми идеями - коль скоро его поддерживали в этом Стюарт и Стинг.

Flexible Strategies - Гибкая Стратегия

Отражающиеся эхом отбивки Стюарта и фанковые гитарные риффы открывают полноценный полисовский джэм-сейшн, состоявшийся в Канаде. Группе нужно было срочно заполнить чем-нибудь сторону В, и результат - перед нами. По словам Стюарта, это было 'позорище', но если вам нравится слушать, как группа, состоящая из великих музыкантов, пускается во все тяжкие, не пытаясь сделать из этого хит, - тогда это будет вам в радость.

Low Life - Жизнь На Дне

'Fatal fascination for the seedy part of town' ('Роковое влечение к бедным районам города'), - поет Стинг. 'Don't be seen alone without your friends at night. Take a gun or a knife to meet a low life' ('He появляйся по ночам один, без друзей. Возьми пистолет или нож для встречи с жизнью на дне'). Отличный текст, донесенный до слушателей в лучших блюзовых традициях, без всяких вокальных фокусов. Джазист Олаф Кублер, с которым группа познакомилась во время работы с Эберхардом Шонером в Германии, исполнил джазовое соло на саксофоне. Интересно, что ни Энди, ни в особенности Стюарту не нравилась эта песня, хотя, как говорили, она была одной из любимых для Стинга. Стюарт чувствовал, что использование саксофона не соответствует фирменному саунду 'The Police'. В каком-то смысле он был прав, потому что эта песня оказалась бессознательной репетицией к грядущим 'Blue Turtles'. (Энди? Стюарт? Ваше исполнение - словно иллюстрация к руководству по шотландским народным танцам).

How Stupid Mr. Bates - Как Глупо, Мистер Бейтс

'The Police' сочинили музыку к телевизионному фильму 'Brimstone & Treacle' ('Сера и патока'), в котором Стинг сыграл роль главного героя Мартина. Перед нами - трудноопределимая вещь, которая имеет смысл только как фон для кадров из фильма или, еще лучше, для быстро бегущих финальных титров.

A Kind Of Loving - Что-То Похожее На Любовь

Еще один фрагмент саундтрека к фильму 'Сера и патока'. Множество ужасных женских криков намекают на мучения и страдания. Их сопровождают возгласы 'Shut up!' ('Заткнись!'). Все это, без сомнений, надо считать соответствующим фоном для прославленной телевизионной драмы мистера Денниса Поттера. Оба последних номера заслуживают быть стертыми заботливым звукоинженером.

Murder By Numbers - Убийства По Порядку

В этом замечательном номере, словно предназначенном для исполнения в полном сигаретного дыма клубе-кабаре, во всем блеске проявляется классическая джазовая подготовка Стинга. Картину дополняют великолепные аккорды Энди Саммерса. Редкие аплодисменты вносят последний штрих в ленивую атмосферу песни.

Man In A Suitcase (Live) - Человек В Чемодане

Совсем новым чувством проникнуто живое исполнение песни, впервые записанной для альбома 'Zenyatta Mondatta'.

Someone To Talk To - Поговорить С Кем-Нибудь

Большая редкость: вокал Энди Саммерса звучит довольно прилично, в основном за счет отсутствия его любимого придурковатого акцента. Он поет в теплой и приятной манере, а простой ясный текст придает песне оттенок невинности. Речь идет о переживаниях по поводу еще одной несостоявшейся любви. К огорчению Энди, Стинг не стал исполнять эту песню, видимо считая, что Саммерс написал здесь об очень личном.

Message In A Bottle (Live) - Послание В Бутылке

Группа исполняет эту одну из своих любимых песен с особым тактом, сдержанностью и внутренним огнем, вспыхивающим в кульминационный момент. Нет уже того небрежного панковского саунда ранних 'The Police', и группа сознательно умеряет пыл, давая Стингу возможность тихо повторять заглавную строчку, чтобы потом вновь взорваться знаменитым 'Ye-oh!'. Группа играла эту песню на свадьбе Стинга через десять лет после своего распада. Интересно, о каком послании шла речь: 'Две пинты, пожалуйста'?

I Burn For You - Я Сгораю От Любви К Тебе

Романтическая чувствительная песня, которую Стинг сочинил, работая в школе, еще в Ньюкасле. Он умудрился написать текст за то время, пока его ученики выполняли задание. Душещипательное вступление звучит в исполнении струнных пиццикато, а Стинг демонстрирует превосходное пение. Эту песню стоило включить в альбом 'Zenyatta Mondatta', однако Стингу пришлось отказаться от своего замысла после возражений со стороны Стюарта и Энди.

Впервые песня прозвучала в исполнении Стинга и его группы 'Last Exit' во время их проживания в отеле 'Госфорт' в Ньюкасле. Впоследствии на своих концертах ее исполняли и сами 'The Police', если Стюарт чувствовал необходимость 'смягчить' репертуар. Во время последнего припева группа неожиданно начинает исполнять этакую песнь 'Людей с гор' - что-то вроде этого вполне могли бы петь викинги, таская бревна для постройки нового корабля.

Once Upon A Daydream - Однажды Во Сне Наяву

Еще одна прекрасная 'потерянная' песня с красивыми аккордами от Энди Саммерса и текстом, любезно предоставленным Гордоном Самнером. Написана она была на краю бассейна на острове Монтсеррат в период работы над 'Ghost In The Machine'. Такую песню легко представить в исполнении До-рис Дей в диснеевском мультфильме - из тех, что помрачнее.

Tea In The Sahara(Live) - Чай В Сахаре

Удлиненная версия последней дорожки из альбома 1983 г. 'Synchronicity'. По мере исполнения этой песни, благодаря повторяющимся музыкальным фразам, ее воздействие на слушателя возрастает. Концертный вариант позволяет понять, почему Стинг особенно любил эту вещь. В ней много пространства и гитарного звука, усиленного применением устройства эхоплекс.

Только благодаря слабому отдаленному свисту каких-то горячих и нетерпеливых зрителей можно понять, что песня записана не в студии, а на концерте. Песня, в которой поется о нарушенных обещаниях, родилась под впечатлением от книги Пола Боулза 'Гостеприимное небо', которую Энди однажды дал почитать Стингу. Никогда не одалживайте книги - вы никогда не получите их обратно.

Don't Stand So Close To Me '86 - Не Стой Так Близко Ко Мне '86

Немного шокирующий взгляд в непроницаемое будущее: такими были 'The Police' в середине восьмидесятых. Цифровое механизированное звучание слишком 'стерильно' и режет слух по сравнению с возникающими в музыке 'Tea In The Sahara' эмоциональными приливами и отливами. Это- бездушный саунд поколения роботов, когда одно человекообразное существо даже не догадается о том, что другое стоит слишком близко к нему, пока не почувствует легкое возбуждение от воздействия электрического поля. Энди Саммерс исполняет очень человечное соло на гитаре, все остальное в песне выглядит как творчество призраков внутри машины. Вопреки, а может быть, благодаря явной враждебности, существовавшей между членами группы во время этой неудачной попытки записать новый альбом, в вокале чувствуется больше остроты и горечи по сравнению с оригиналом.


The Police Live - Полис Вживую

Released ten years too late in 1995, The Police Live! is a double live album which features two almost complete Police shows - one from the Orpheum in Boston in 1979 and the other from the Omni in Atlanta in 1983. Both shows are very different - in some cases it's almost like different bands. Terrific stuff in both cases.

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

А&М 540 222-2; выпущено: май, 1995 год

Многие годы фаны 'The Police' мечтали дождаться 'живого' альбома группы, который передал бы возбуждение и энергию, царившие на ее концертах. В комплекте 'Message in A Box' было несколько фрагментов этих концертов, но тем не менее в 1995 г., десятилетие спустя после распада группы, в свет вышел полноценный звуковой документ. Этот двойной СD был посвящен двум концертам 'The Police' в Америке, ознаменовавшим начальный и конечный этапы их совместной карьеры. Творческая энергия и драматизм этих двух выступлений доказывают, что воспоминания нас не обманули.

Первый диск представляет концерт в зале 'Orpheum' в Бостоне, предназначавшийся для трансляции на WBCN в ноябре 1979 г., и включает в себя 15 взрывных версий песен периода 'Reggatta De Blanc' плюс реплики 'в сторону', отпускаемые беспокойным трио.

Второй диск посвящен концерту периода 'Synchronicity', записанному в 'The Omni' (Атланта) в ноябре 1983-го. Здесь перед нами еще 15 наполненных действием номеров. Эта запись дает уникальную возможность взглянуть на группу, которая делает все, чтобы шоу состоялось. Каждый музыкант работает на пределе своих возможностей, доводя конкуренцию с коллегами до опасной грани. Они были очень хороши, и жаль, что им пришлось прекратить борьбу, но такое неизбежно случается практически с каждой рок-группой, достигшей серьезного успеха. Сразу на ум приходят 'The Beatles', 'The Who' и 'Cream' как наглядный образец механизма самоуничтожения. Лишь в группе 'Ber tWilcox Five' за тридцать пять лет никто никому и слова дурного не сказал, но вот только кто покупает их альбомы, кроме миссис Уилкокс?


Диск 1

Next To You - Рядом С Тобой

Конфликт возникает почти мгновенно, как только Стюарт и Стинг начинают приветствовать шумную толпу. Каждый из них пытается показать, кто главный в группе. Через несколько тактов после начала концерта просыпается звукоинженер и неуверенной рукой выставляет уровень записи. Тем не менее, будучи увековечены на альбоме, эти неполадки очень забавляют.

So Lonely -Такой Одинокий

'I feel so lonely!' ('Я так одинок!') - заявляет Стинг публике. 'I'm not surprised' ('Я не удивлен'), - не к месту грубо перебивает его высунувшийся из-за своих барабанов Стюарт. 'Chaw chaw' ('Болтай, болтай'),-в том же духе отвечает Стинг, давая понять, что он думает о такой невежливости. Энди Саммерс оказывается выше всех этих дрязг и играет с нарастающей яростью. В недрах его музыки рождаются потрясающие идеи, свободному полету которых всегда было тесно в рамках студийных альбомов. Когда Стинг начинает импровизировать вокруг главной темы, он великолепно демонстрирует особенности своего гортанного вокала. Голос его звучит так, словно он страдает от приступа болотной лихорадки, усугубленной повышенной влажностью, злоупотреблением сигаретами и серьезной ангиной. Именно эта неустойчивая надрывность придает голосу Стинга особенный шарм и привлекательность. Когда от него не требуется перекрикивать группу, Стинг демонстрирует необычайную степень контроля над своими вокальными эмоциями, используя голос подобно саксофону, чтобы взять самые высокие ноты.

Блестящее исполнение. На записи слышно, как Стюарт одобрительно кричит: 'Nice going' ('Отлично идет').

Truth Hits Everybody - Правда Задевает Всех

Впервые эта версия вышла в свет в составе комплекта 'Message In A Box'. С первых секунд на поверхность всплывают внутренние коллизии, когда члены группы не могут решить, кому объявить песню. Невольно представляешь себя в роли Большого Спонсора, которому так и хочется крикнуть из ложи VIP: 'Эй, парни, разберитесь там между собой, кто все-таки руководит группой?' Отбросив в сторону подобные мысли, отметим темперамент исполнения.

Walking On The Moon - Прогулка На Луне

'This is from my new record' ('Это - из моего нового альбома'), - объявляет бесстыжий Стинг. Заметьте, не из 'нашего' нового альбома. Ну конечно, 'Walking On The Moon' - это его идея, но, без сомнения, такие заявления не могли не бесить Стюарта. И опять исполнение Энди отличает энергия и ясность, не столь очевидные в альбомной версии. Важно отметить, что здесь Стингу удается совмещать сложную причудливую басовую партию с пением - не самая легкая задача, будьте уверены. Работа палочек Стюарта, создающая фон для короткого стинговского 'Yo, уо, уо', достойна восхищения. Зрители пока еще не разобрались, как им реагировать на эту 'новую' песню, но пройдет несколько месяцев, и все они будут вне себя от восторга.

Hole In My Life - Дыра В Моей Жизни

Что-то от Пола Маккартни слышится в басовой партии этого явно недооцененного номера полисовского репертуара. Исполнители постепенно гипнотизируют слушателей, чтобы потом ударить по ним серией взрывов, на джазовом языке называемых 'брейками'. Такие хитрые приемы доводят публику до истерики.

Fall Out - Осадки

Первый сингл 'The Police' по-прежнему остается в репертуаре, чтобы напомнить о панковских корнях группы и немного приподнять настроение слушателей в середине шоу. Это-быстрый веселый номер, позволяющий Энди играть с полной отдачей. Большинство гитарных групп или не справляются с таким темпом, или чересчур увлекаются самим процессом исполнения, но 'The Police' четко контролируют ситуацию.

Bring On The Night - Принеси Ночь

Энди Саммерс вновь превзошел себя, выдав серию великолепных аккордов, выстроенных в красивую волнообразную последовательность, которая сменяется веселым ритмом регги, чтобы потом вновь перейти в другое измерение. Стинг ограничивается несколькими басовыми ходами, давая отдых связкам и предоставляя Энди пространство для самовыражения.

Message In A Bottle - Послание В Бутылке

И опять бостонцы не готовы к восприятию этого шедевра - они только недавно повылезали из своих междугородных автобусов и еще заняты покупкой пакетов с попкорном. И все же волшебство этой песни, исполненной здесь в чуть ускоренном темпе, покоряет публику, которая наслышана о блестящей молодой группе с большими перспективами. 'Sending out an SOS' ('Посылаю сигнал SOS'), - поет Стинг в припеве, на этот раз, в отличие от студийной версии, следя за дикцией.

The Bed's Too Big Without You - Кровать Слишком Широка Без Тебя

Еще один подарок зрителям, наверняка впервые услышавшим эту тщательно аранжированную песню об одиночестве с некоторыми отзвуками регги. Стинг занимается любовью с подушкой, оплакивая горечь разлуки.

Соло- и бас-гитара соединяются в красивом дуэте, заполняя пространство каскадом звуковых напластований. Мастерство Стинга как бас-гитариста не требует доказательств, а Стюарт демонстрирует здесь, как можно выражать музыкальные идеи на ударной установке, практически не играя в привычном смысле этого слова. Великолепное взаимодействие между участниками группы доказывает, что, какие бы сложности ни возникали в их отношениях, музыка для них была превыше всего. Гипнотически воздействующий финал, ставший апофеозом невинности и чистоты, исполнен Стингом просто великолепно, несмотря на то что запись сохранила и неуместные дурацкие крики шутников, традиционно присутствующих на рок-концертах.

Peanuts - Пустяки

Нетерпеливые шутники встрепенулись с первыми звуками этого скорострельного номера, давая выход энергии (в виде прыжков, свиста), чтобы потом замереть в надежде на продолжение.

Roxanne - Роксана

Конечно, прекрасный номер, но слишком уж знакомый. Особый шарм ему придают долгие смелые паузы, во время которых ударные, бас и гитара замирают в ожидании, когда Стинг продолжит пение. В те времена, когда большинство панк-групп, да и стариков хард-рокеров, старались не прерывать поток назойливого шума, боясь 'потерять' аудиторию, 'The Police' продемонстрировали особый музыкальный такт и уверенность во владении звуком. Прав был тот старый музыкант, который сказал: 'Важно не то, что ты играешь, а то, чего ты не играешь'.

Can't Stand Losing You - He Смогу Вынести Потери Тебя

Это действительно очень хороший концерт и, возможно, один из самых удачных концертных альбомов со времен 'Live At Leeds' 'The Who', недавно переизданного в расширенном виде. Стинг выкрикивает вступительные слова, и трио реагирует с воодушевлением, моментально перекидывающимся в зал.

Напряжение и возбуждение нарастают, публика реагирует с жаром, необъяснимым с точки зрения элементарной логики или функционирования простых условных рефлексов.

Landlord - Домовладелец доп. 1 (история написания)

В этом сверхскоростном номере группа вновь обращается к панку, но и здесь умудряется заставить его звучать интересно и захватывающе, что, в общем, удавалось немногим панк-группам. Аккорды Саммерса мерцают, подобно летнему мареву.

Born In The 50's - Рожденные В 50-Х

'1, 2, 3, 4, 5, б', - отсчитывает Стинг, начиная одну из самых бестолковых песен группы. Кому нужны были эти скучные пятидесятые на заре куда более восхитительных восьмидесятых, которые просто по определению были предназначены для 'The Police'? Текст откровенно дрянной, музыкальная тема явно слабая и не соответствует уровню группы. Как бы то ни было, этот непритязательный номер призван намекнуть, что группа устала и готова выйти на 'бис' перед окончанием концерта.

Be my girl - sally - будь моей девушкой - салли

Монолог Энди про надувную куклу в стиле мюзик-холла, исполненный с нарочитым ланкаширским акцентом, озадачивает и забавляет зрителей. Напоследок группа благосклонно выдает репризу из песни 'Next To You'.


Диск 2

Synchronicity I - синхронность I

Несколько лет спустя они все так же кричат '1, 2, 3!', но теперь, в 1983-м, можно заметить изменения в звучании группы. Саунд, пожалуй, стал более гладким, ровным и собранным. Выдержанная в быстром темпе, композиция из последнего студийного альбома группы производит довольно странное впечатление, создавая атмосферу таинственности и тревоги. Его усугубляет немилосердный ритм. Бас-барабан Копленда звучит теперь тяжелее и равномернее, вокальные гармонии стали более слаженными, группе удалось добиться более согласованного и мощного звучания. Кроме того, Атланта отличается от Бостона ревом толпы: больше людей, больше восторженных чувств.

Synchronicity II - синхронность II

Текст песни воздействует на публику с той же силой, что и в студийной версии, несмотря на безумный темп и тщательно отрегулированный рев полисовских моторов, вращающихся на полной мощности. Структура песни не пострадала от напористого исполнения, хотя можно было бы уделить больше внимания создаваемому настроению.

Walking In Your Footsteps - За Тобой След В След

Группа сразу попадает в нужную колею, хотя любопытно заметить нотки раздражения, промелькнувшие в нескольких строчках текста,- наверное, Стинг был чем-то недоволен.

Похоже, что на заднем плане они используют драм-машину, имитируя звук трещотки, а несколько фанковый бэк-вокал помогает Стингу создать интонации госпела. Но чем выискивать недостатки или особый смысл в малейших отклонениях того или иного единственного в своем роде исполнения, не лучше ли просто погрузиться в поток музыки и, подобно публике в зале, наслаждаться им, приняв все таким, как есть.

Message In A Bottle - послание в бутылке

Несомненно, песня стоит того, чтобы быть услышанной вновь, так как изменилось и исполнение Стинга, и ее трактовка в целом. Пронзительные крики выражают восторг молодежи Атланты от лицезрения своих кумиров во плоти. (Какой-то профессиональный свистун надрывает легкие в самый кульминационный момент!)

О My God - о боже мой

В неотразимом басовом риффе Стинга, вплетенном в фанковую тему, слышны отголоски 'Demolition Man'. Бэк-вокалистки Тесса Найлс, Долитт Макдональд и Мишель Коббс вносят в исполнение свою лепту. Великолепная вещь, указывающая на возможное направление развития группы, если бы здравый смысл возобладал и у 'The Police' было будущее. Слышна команда босса: 'Fill it up!' Что бы это могло означать? Можем ли мы предположить наличие какого-то сексуального подтекста в этом ласкающем ритме?

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

Этот американский хит пронизан какой-то особой сердечной теплотой. Между прочим, по мере продвижения вперед мы вдруг замечаем, что Стинг уверенно взял на себя лидерство и больше не слышно бестактных реплик и криков ударника. Ударные звучат более сдержанно, а в игре Энди меньше неистовства. Зрелость-именно то слово, которое приходит на ум в этой ситуации.

Wrapped Around Your Finger - у тебя на пальце (1 история написания)

Стоит отметить, что именно трехчастная структура песни остается одним из самых эффективных построений в рок-музыке. Свидетельство тому - этот ошеломляюще красивый эксперимент по созданию настроения. Слова застывают, повисая в воздухе, подобно дыханию на морозе. Гитара и ударные оттеняют этот эффект, выдавая звуковое многообразие, какое можно было бы ожидать от большого оркестра. В такие моменты осознаешь, как много потеряла современная музыка после ухода 'The Police'.

Tea In The Sahara - чай в сахаре (1 история написания)

Это скорбное сюрреалистическое повествование заметно возвышается над суетой, окружавшей 'The Police' накануне их распада. Несомненно, для тех, кто умеет слушать, эта песня - одна из самых любимых, а те, кто не прочувствовал ее глубину с самого начала, могут насладиться всеми нюансами, сполна выраженными в волшебном исполнении.

Танец тарелок Стюарта полон солнечного блеска, а гитара Энди всхлипывает и вздыхает в приглушенной скорби. В финале создается ощущение, будто Стинг играет на арабской дудке, купленной где-нибудь на базаре.

Spirits In The Material World - духи в материальном мире (1 история написания)

Хотя в этих исторических концертах на удивление мало присутствуют интонации 'Reggatta De Blanc', в этой песне группа, несомненно, ближе всего к духу Боба Марли. Главная тема исполнена в немилосердном роковом ритме, ведущем к искрометной коде, которая была встречена восхищенными аплодисментами присутствующих на концерте зрителей.

King Of Pain - король боли

'There's a little black spot on the sun today' ('На солнце сегодня черное пятнышко'), - поет наш герой, полностью подчиняя себе эмоции публики.

Заглавные строки Стинг произносит почти со стоном, пропуская сквозь душу и сердце еще одну серьезную и трудную песню. Нелегко быть лид-вокалистом, когда почти у всех песен сложные глубокие тексты, а исполнять их приходится изо дня в день. При этом в самый ответственный момент перед твоим носом может пролететь недоеденный гамбургер, а газеты на следующий день напечатают что-нибудь вроде: 'Вчера поп-звезда Стинг до смерти утомил автора этой статьи своим ужасно занудным шоу в 'Omni'. К счастью, на следующей неделе в город приезжают 'The Ramones...' (Сайрус Т. Вайсмюллер, музыкальный и бейсбольный обозреватель 'Atlanta Chronicle').

Don't Stand So Close To Me - Нe стой так близко ко мне

Воздух пронизывает дразнящее вступление, и молодой учитель Стинг обращается к неугомонной толпе, успешно управляясь с 'классом' при помощи одной из своих самых сексуальных песен об искушении. 'Strong words in the staff room, the accusations fly' ('Пересуды в учительской, летят обвинения'), - поет Стинг, рисуя положение учителя, которого обстоятельства подталкивают к соблазнительной девочке, одетой только в коротенькую юбку, белую блузочку и чулки, верхние края которых выглядывают из-под ее... Спокойно, парень, спокойно, держи себя в руках.

Every Breath You Take - каждый твой вздох

Ну и ну! Этот парень, Стинг, в молодости точно напал на золотую жилу классных песен. Может, он ненормальный, не такой, как все? Некоторые считают, что здесь не обошлось без вмешательства черной магии или без употребления запрещенных законом веществ. А как еще объяснить появление этого маленького шедевра, да что там скупиться на похвалы, когда предмет обсуждения их заслуживает большого шедевра!

Roxanne - роксана

Среди так называемых рок-групп отмечена печальная тенденция акцентировать свое внимание на людях с сомнительным образом жизни. Стинг не только принародно признался в том, что посетил квартал 'красных фонарей' в Париже, но и по итогам своих наблюдений написал песню о проститутке. Неудивительно, что ВВС запретила трансляцию этой песни в своем эфире. Откровенная непристойность... но до чего хороша!

Can't Stand Losing You - He смогу вынести потери тебя

Этот номер, к сожалению, свидетельствует о том, что группе часто не удавалось добиваться той неустойчивой спонтанности, которая отличала ее раннее творчество. Добавление подпевок здесь явно идет не на пользу, а во вред песне. Как только в своеобычное музыкальное начало группы внедряются инородные примеси, звучание становится более пресным и тривиальным, теряя исходный смысл. Это - субъективное предположение, но в нем может быть зерно истины. Гитара Энди приобретает неожиданные интонации хэви метала, а Стинг берется за сложную задачу заставить публику петь вместе с ним.

So Lonely - такой одинокий

И вот близится конец. Пора пробираться поближе к выходам - надо успеть выйти, пока на выезде с автостоянки не образовалась пробка. Но минутку: Стинг пускается в долгий рэповый речитатив, и шоу начинает раскручиваться на повышенных оборотах, поэтому вплоть до последних секунд уйти просто невозможно. Энди пускается в свои эксцентричные соло, да и Стюарт просто в угаре. Это те самые 'The Police', которых мы любим, но теперь все уже кончилось, и мы начинаем долгий путь домой, зная, что никогда больше не увидим такой группы, какой были они. Тем грустнее. Во время нашей экскурсии в мир этой уникальной группы мы могли обронить несколько критических замечаний и жестких суждений, но музыка без изъянов, не дающая повода для споров, - безжизненная и никому не интересная штука. 'The Police' всегда были полны жизни, и каждая минута их музыки заслуживала внимания. Этот сувенир из прошлого только подтверждает сказанное мной.


СОЛЬНЫЕ АЛЬБОМЫ СТИНГА

The dream of the blue turtles - Сон голубых черепах

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

А&М; выпущено: июнь, 1985 год;

СD А&М 393 750-2; выпущено: июнь, 1985 год

В 1985 г. 'The Police' еще не были распущены официально и их судьба оставалась достаточно неопределенной, но лид-вокалист группы работал в лихорадочном графике. Он по-прежнему успешно выступал в амплуа киноактера, сыграв одну из главных ролей в удивительно неприятном фильме - экранизации научно-фантастического романа Франка Херберта 'Дюна'.

В то же самое время Стинг приступил к реализации мечты, которую лелеял, наверное, еще со времен своего безвестного существования в Ньюкасле. Он всегда хотел обзавестись настоящим 'живым' нью-йоркским джаз-бэндом. Конечно, он не должен был выглядеть как традиционный, основанный на сплошной импровизации оркестр-'комбо'. Стингу хотелось, чтобы самые лучшие музыканты помогали ему, интерпретируя его новые песни с той страстностью, на которую способны только джазовые исполнители. Он дал бы им пространство для самовыражения, но в то же время ограничил бы его, будучи полновластным хозяином группы в плане структуры и аранжировок песен. Заслуга Стинга в том, что, несмотря на трудности, ему удалось найти равновесие между вкладом в творческий процесс работающих с ним музыкантов и своими собственными идеями относительно текстов, мелодии и концепций песен.

К тому моменту он уже вкусил плоды сольной карьеры, выпустив кавер-версию старого стандарта 'Spread A Little Happiness' из саундтрека к фильму 'Brimstone & Treacle'. В сентябре 1982 г. песня стала хитом, что вселило в ее исполнителя веру в будущее. И вот в январе 1985 г. Стинг начал прослушивания в Нью-Йорке в поисках музыкантов для своей новой аккомпанирующей группы.

В течение месяца сформировался состав группы 'The Blue Turtles Band': Кенни Керкленд (клавишные), Бренфорд Марселис (саксофон), Омар Хаким (ударные) и Деррил Джонс (бас). У всех этих прекрасных музыкантов было впечатляющее прошлое. Бренфорд и его брат, знаменитый трубач Уинтон, были подлинными королями своих инструментов и в числе немногих возглавляли новую волну в современной музыке, украсив собой джазовую сцену. Бренфорд играл с Артом Блейки и Диззи Гиллеспи. Омар Хаким входил в состав джаз-роковой группы 'Weather Report', а Деррил Джонс работал с Майлсом Дейвисом (впоследствии он успешно заменит Билла Уаймена в 'Rolling Stones'). Кенни Керкленд играл на клавишных с Уинтоном Марселисом, Гиллеспи и Элвином Джонсом. Эта на редкость эклектичная и удивительно талантливая группа впервые выступила перед публикой в нью-йоркском зале 'Ritz'.

Затем началась работа над 'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles' в студии Эдди Гранта 'Blue Wave' на Барбадосе. Альбом вышел в свет в июне 1985 г. и быстро возглавил хит-парады по обеим сторонам Атлантики.

Новый стиль нашел путь к сердцам слушателей, несмотря на свою относительную сложность по сравнению с регги-панковским стилем 'The Police'. Конечно же, сыграл свою роль и суперзвездный статус Стинга, обеспечивший быстрое продвижение альбома в хит-парадах. И сейчас, спустя более десяти лет, запись радует слух.

Большое значение здесь придается деталям, поэтому альбом поистине полон изысканных нюансов и маленьких озарений. В нем мало откровенных поп-хитов, но зато он содержит много зрелых композиций. Некоторые из них на самом деле трогают своей искренностью, оригинальностью и остроумием. И 'Russians', и 'Children's Crusade' далеко ушли от 'De Do Do Do'. И все же первые две песни альбома на удивление разочаровывают. Возможно, в том, что их поместили в начале альбома, был свой хитрый умысел: сперва раздразнить слушателя, а затем в полной мере дать ему ощутить всю силу и глубину воздействия музыки и индивидуальности Стинга.

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free - если ты любишь кого-то, дай ему свободу

Надрывая голос, наполненный эмоциями, Стинг отправляется в великое плавание по практически неизведанным водам сольной карьеры. В этой невзрачной поп-соуловой разминке он далеко не полностью использует возможности своего звездного ансамбля. На первый взгляд он звучит, как довольно неплохая группа из тех, что играют на свадьбах или в барах, - вполне профессионально, но без всякой индивидуальности. Текст песни пронизан холодным высокомерием. 'If You Love Somebody' была выпущена в виде сингла и достигла номера 26 в британских списках лучших хитов, но куда большим хитом она стала в Штатах, где в июньском 'Billboard' заняла третью позицию.

Love Is The Seventh Wave - любовь - это девятый вал

Вне испытующей атмосферы нервозности и соперничества, всегда присущих работе с коллегами по 'The Police', музыка Стинга, похоже, самодовольно плывет по волнам Карибского моря. Вместо беспокойства и огня - комфорт и умиротворенность. Но как бы то ни было, это довольно приятная песенка, выделяющаяся вкраплениями сопрано-саксофона, а призыв к любви, которая, по мнению автора, должна противостоять безжалостной военной машине, - глубже, чем кажется на первый взгляд. В концовке Стинг несколько оживляет эту покрытую сахаром таблетку мрачноватым экспромтом: 'Every breath you take, every cake you bake...' ('Каждый твой вздох, каждый пирог, что ты печешь...')

Russians - русские

После сравнительно слабых предыдущих вещей 'Russians' звучит очень мощно - как песня, достойная таланта и репутации Стинга. Это - властный, простой, искренний призыв к разуму и здравому смыслу в решении мировых вопросов в эпоху возраставшей международной напряженности. Песня вызывает в памяти нагнетание воинственных настроений при администрации Рейгана в годы Империи зла.

Стинг вспоминает шокировавшие всех слова Хрущева: 'Мы вас похороним', сказанные в апогее 'холодной войны', и говорит: 'I hope the Russians love their children too' ('Я надеюсь, русские тоже любят своих детей'). Не так уж трудно предположить, что эти слова были услышаны теми, кому они предназначались.

Children's Crusade - детский крестовый поход

В этом сдержанном, внешне бесстрастном исследовании ужасов первой мировой войны Стинг выдерживает уровень, заданный 'Russians', и поднимается на новую высоту к сияющим вершинам поп-музыки. Он предлагает необычный ракурс, сравнивая маки, ставшие символами жертв войны 1914 г., с опийным маком, олицетворяющим другую беду - гибель от наркотиков молодежи наших дней.

Shadows In The Rain - тени под дождем

Наконец-то группе дозволено показать, на что она способна, но тут внезапно подает голос саксофонист Бренфорд Марселис. 'Wait - what key is this in?' ('Подождите, в какой это тональности?') - спрашивает рассерженный музыкант, когда вступают ударные, и моментально группу охватывает чувство нервозности и паники, пока все не становится на свои места. Приятно слышать, как Стинг позволяет себе надолго замолчать, давая возможность клавишнику и саксофонисту солировать, - качество, чуждое большинству певцов, считающих, что без их несравненного голоса песня потеряет всякую ценность. Большая часть публики предпочтет откинуться на своих местах и просто насладиться музыкой.

[такая же мура как и прежде Второй вариант не очень удачной песни из финале альбома Zenyatta Mondatta]

We Work The Black Seam - мы разрабатываем черный пласт

В середине восьмидесятых, по мере того как на смену углю приходила ядерная энергия, разгорелось много споров вокруг закрытия шахт и свертывания угледобывающей промышленности. Стингу удалось отвлечься от экономических аспектов и прочувствовать человеческую сторону этой проблемы, - выступив от имени шахтеров своего родного Северо-востока Англии. Он подчеркивает, что на смену угольной пыли теперь придет углерод-14, смертельно опасный и через 12 тысяч лет. Монотонный ритм, имитирующий работу парового экскаватора, создает подходящий 'индустриальный' фон.

[не более, чем распевка текста. Маримба на 'A' - говорит о том, что Cтинг, конечно, в курсе ладовых вариаций. Похоже, что структура построения песен в этом альбоме не эклектична. Для каждой песни заранее выбирается стилистика в которой она звучит от начала до конца. Не так было у The Police. Пожалуй уже здесь можно сказать - что все самое интересное в этом альбоме - это то, про что поется. Ревер на Басе утяжеляет фактуру и вяжет его с барабанами создавая некую вязкую топь в нижнем диапазоне. В The Police можно было прослушать басовыую партию под сушью барабанов]

Consider Me Gone - считай, что я ушел

В основе композиции - крутой джаз, смешанный с легким свингом, но остается место и для выразительного саксофона. Стинг исследует чувство опустошенности, овладевающее человеком после несостоявшейся любви. И снова песню украшают слова, полные смысла и выразительности, - то, что нужно для актера.

The Dream Of Blue Turtles - сон голубых черепах

Небольшая инструментальная интерлюдия, завершающаяся смехом в студии, воспринимается как краткий отдых после серьезных песен. Это скромная дань традиции живого музицирования в эпоху, когда в процессе записи полновластно доминировали продюсер и Технические устройства.

9. Moon Over Bourbon Street - луна над бурбон-стрит (Fm)

Выдающаяся вещь. Сначала Стинг поет sotto voce - вполголоса, а затем продолжает с возрастающей страстностью в духе гран-кабаре. Нота, взятая смычком на контрабасе самим Стингом, завершает эту изысканную музыкальную виньетку, украшенную прекрасной игрой на саксофоне. По словам контрабасиста, на сочинение песни его вдохновила книга Энн Райс 'Интервью с вампиром'.

10. Fortress Around Your Heart - крепость вокруг твоего сердца

Как ни странно, только в конце альбома мы находим единственную песню, которая возвращает нас к 'The Police', еще не забытым и готовым к воссоединению. Есть что-то коплендовское в бэк-бите, а построение текста напоминает бурные дни 'Walking On The Moon', хотя сходство это только кажущееся. Аллегорические стихи заслуживают отдельного разговора. В Штатах песня вошла в 'Тор 20'.


Bring On The Night - Принеси Ночь

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

A&M 396 705-2; выпущено: июнь, 1986 год

Этот двойной концертный альбом вышел в свет одновременно с документальным фильмом 'Принеси ночь' (режиссер Майкл Эптед), снятым во время концерта в Париже в декабре 1985 г. и получившим премию 'Грэми'. В нем новая группа Стинга предстает перед нами во всей красе. Музыканты оттягивались изо всех сил и солировали с чувством свободы, недопустимым в относительно тесных рамках альбома 'Blue Turtles'. Записи, вошедшие в альбом, сделаны на декабрьских концертах в Париже, Арнеме и Риме.

Стинг не отказывает себе в удовольствии переработать некоторые из своих любимых старых полисовских вещей, включая 'Bring On The Night', 'When The World Is Running Down', 'Demolition Man' и 'Tea In The Sahara'. Остальной материал взят из альбома 'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles'. Но если собственно альбом-это прекрасная музыка в захватывающем исполнении, то его оформление (в частности, рисунки и живопись в 'детском' стиле) оставляет желать лучшего. Мелкий шрифт делает невозможным прочтение информации без сильной лупы. На самом деле большинство обложек альбомов Стинга отличает небрежный, неряшливый дизайн, резко контрастирующий с внимательным и вдумчивым отношением к музыке.

Как раз вскоре после выхода этого альбома 'The Police', к удивлению многих, собрались вместе для воссоединительного концерта, завершавшего большой тур всех звезд и проводившегося в Атланте 11 июля под эгидой организации 'Amnesty International'. Группа исполнила пять песен, и это было их последнее появление на публике вместе.

В течение следующего месяца 'The Police' пыталась записать шестой альбом, но лондонские сессии ни к чему не привели, и группа распалась после восьми лет совместных достижений, громадного успеха и внутренних противоречий. А Стинг обрел свободу петь, играть и сочинять без необходимости сражаться за место под солнцем.

Bring On The Night/ When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around

- Принеси ночь/ когда мир разваливается, ты как можно лучше используешь то, что еще остается вокруг тебя

Дремотный аромат оригинала быстро развеивается (к счастью), как только в работу включается ритм-секция, а Стинг начинает импровизировать в джазовой манере. 'The Police' записали 'Bring On The Night' в 1978 г., а сама песня была сочинена тремя годами раньше. Внезапное возбуждение врывается в музыку, как только группа переходит к песне 'When The World Is Running Down' из альбома 'Zenyatta Mondatta'.

Слово Стингу: 'Обе песни роднит одинаковая последовательность аккордов и пост-апокалиптическое видение мира... этакая тщеславная фантазия: ты один выжил в мировой катастрофе, и к тому же все твои любимые вещи целы и невредимы!'

Внезапно посреди превосходного фортепианного соло Кении Керкленда в мелодию вступает настоящий мощный рэп в исполнении Бренфорда Марселиса, который просто показывает, 'как это надо делать'. Одиннадцать минут, наполненных радостью творчества, демонстрируют все, что есть лучшего в современной музыке. Этот номер свидетельствует о том, чего можно добиться, собрав самых разных по стилю музыкантов для участия в общем деле.

Consider Me Gone - Считай, что я ушел

Чудесное медленное звучание тлеет, подобно зажженному фитилю. Омар Хаким нежно скользит по тарелкам, а Стинг поет изящно и спокойно. Заметно, что он во многом отказался от излишней манерности, отличавшей его в период работы с 'The Police', и характер его пения полностью гармонирует с профессиональной зрелостью его новых коллег. И снова голос мистера Самнера чем-то напоминает Иона Андерсона из самых ранних 'Yes', когда их еще вдохновлял Билл Брафорд. Воодушевленная и внимательная французская публика приветствует поразительно эффектную коду, и Стинг с благодарностью произносит 'Merci bien'.

Low Life - Жизнь на дне

Небольшое сходство с 'Hall & Oates' и их любимым соуловым саундом. Эта трактовка интересна прежде всего работой Омара Хакима на ударных и непрерывным потоком звуков тенор-саксофона. Песня была написана в 1977 г. на заднем сиденье гастрольного автобуса по пути на концерт. Автор песни вспоминает: 'Перед этим мы как раз неделю жили в гостинице в Рипербане, гамбургском квартале 'красных фонарей'. Каждое одинокое лицо, и мое, я полагаю, в том числе, - это целая история'.

We Work The Black Seam - Мы разрабатываем черный пласт

Скорбная песнь горняков с 'Blue Turtles' оживлена более быстрым темпом исполнения. Стинг рассказывал: 'Запись мелодии к 'Black Seam' провалялась среди моих нот, наверное, лет десять. Я никак не мог ее закончить и найти подходящий текст, пока не началась забастовка шахтеров. Еще меня подтолкнул на это долгий разговор с другом, который работал ремонтником на атомной электростанции'.

Driven To Tears - Доведен до слез

Песня была написана в 1979 г. в мотеле в США после того, как Стинг увидел в теленовостях голодающих детей, которые не держались на ногах от истощения. Стинг вспоминал: 'Слезы негодования - это хорошо, но 'Band Aid'* - гораздо лучше'. Бренфорд Марселис вступает здесь с довольно продолжительным соло на сопрано-саксофоне.

The Dream Of Blue Turtles/ Demolition Man - Cон Голубых Черепах/ Подрывник

Чудесное джазовое вступление, в котором ощущается неуловимое присутствие Фрэнка Заппы и отголоски 'Вестсайдской истории' с ее темой стаккато. Аранжировка без видимых усилий перестраивается на угрожающий и гипнотический мотив 'Demolition Man' из альбома 'Ghost In The Machine'. Xaким находит нужный темп для Стинга, поющего необычно грубым голосом.

One World (Not Three)/ Love Is The Seventh Wave - один мир (а не три)/ любовь - это девятый вал

'It may seem a million miles away but it gets a little closer every day' ('Может показаться, что

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* '
Band Aid'-акция рок-музыкантов в поддержку голодающих Эфиопии. - Примеч. пер.

это - в миллионе миль отсюда, но с каждым днем оно становится немного ближе'), - едва сдерживая смех, поет Стинг со своими весельчаками в интересном хоровом вступлении перед тем, как группа переходит на ритм регги, расцвеченный веселым звучанием маримба. В довершение всего - густое и мелодически богатое соло сопрано-саксофона. Это исполнение подчеркивает необыкновенную универсальность группы, что должно было наполнять Стинга огромной гордостью и удовлетворением.

Понадобились, наверное, многочасовые репетиции, чтобы придумать вокальный переход, без видимых усилий связывающий две песни в одну.

Moon Over Bourbon Street - луна над бурбон-стрит

Стинг сочинил эту умело аранжированную песню в одну из ночей 1983 г. во французском квартале Нового Орлеана. Бренфорд Марселис оттеняет вокал Стинга звуковыми образами в духе Сидни Бечета на своем проверенном сопрано-саксофоне. Слишком хорошо для фанов рок-н-ролла. Неудивительно, что в восьмидесятые годы Стинга иногда обвиняли в высокомерии. Он, надо признаться, - умная каналья. Хорошая внешность, славные мелодии, которые и на банджо звучат неплохо.

I Burn For You - я сгораю по тебе

Звуки вибрафона открывают песню, написанную Стингом в классе во время урока математики. Он рассказывал, что тогда, в 1975-м, играл с группой, которая еженедельно выступала в одном из пабов Ньюкасла. Стингу нужно было сочинять для них новые песни, но выкроить время для этого он мог, только давая своим ученикам большие контрольные по математике.

'Они вели себя тихо, и я мог относительно спокойно подгонять слова под музыку', - вспоминал Стинг. Песня вошла в саундтрек фильма 'Brimstone & Treacle', в котором он сыграл роль Дьявола. Саундтрек завоевал 'Грэми'... а ученики получили свои пятерки.

Another Day - Еще один день

'Безысходная песня', по словам Стинга, с умным проницательным текстом. Тем не менее Стингу удается заставить зрителей подпевать ему в стиле Фила Коллинза, в то время как ритм-секция готовит свое жаркое из энергичного соула. Великолепная бас-гитаpa Деррида Джонса тщательно перемешивает мясо с картофелем.

Children's Crusade - Детский крестовый поход

Одна из жемчужин, украшающих 'Blue Turtles', - вокал, скользящий поверх рапсодической фортепианной темы, нежно исполняемой Кенни Керклендом. Текст Стинга, полный печальной иронии, производит еще большее впечатление благодаря сдержанному исполнению. Необыкновенно мощное и насыщенное соло на сопрано-саксофоне выдает Марселис, подгоняемый барабанами Хакима, который добавляет огня, впрочем, ни на секунду не теряя контроль над собой.

Down So Long - так долго был подавлен

Бал правит ритм-энд-блюз. Марселис работает в манере Джуниора Уокера, а соло- и бас-гитара просто рвутся в бой. Стингу, похоже, особо нечего делать в окружении таких гигантов, поэтому он поощряет соло Кении Керкленда, звучащее так, словно оно сыграно на гитаре. Все сделано с умом. В примечаниях к CD Стинг шутит: 'Одной из моих задач было убедить группу, что блюз как музыкальный жанр родом из района угольных бассейнов Северной Англии. Почему-то мне кажется, что они мне не поверили'.

Tea In The Sahara - Чай В Сахаре

Последний фрагмент 'Synchronicity'. Эта унылая вещь - явно любимая полисовская песня Бренфорда Марселиса. Эта версия была записана на концерте в Арнеме, в Голландии. Песня затихает, снимая возбуждение, созданное 'Down So Long'.


...Nothing like the Sun - ...ничем не схожи с солнцем[3]*

 

 

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

А&М CDA 6402; выпущено: октябрь, 1987 год

Второй студийный альбом Стинга был записан в студии AIR, на острове Монтсеррат, свидетеле былых свершений 'The Police'. В роли продюсеров выступили Нил Дорфсман и Стинг, на стадии микширования к ним присоединился Хью Пэдэм. Саунд альбома получился более отчетливым и ясным по сравнению как с 'Turtles', так и с 'Bring On The Night'. К тому же здесь гораздо активнее использу ются гитары.

Стинг продолжил сотрудничество с некоторыми из гастролировавших с ним музыкантов, включая клавишника Кенни Керкленда и саксофониста Бренфорда Марселиса. Место за барабанами занял Ману Катче, в записи участвовало и множество приглашенных гитаристов. В 'Lazarus Heart' и 'Be Still My Beating Heart' появился Энди Саммерс. Марк Нопфлер из 'Dire Straits' и Эрик Клэптон играли на гитарах в песне 'They Dance Alone', Стинг также добавил в запись гитарные и басовые партии в собственном исполнении. И снова автором всех песен, кроме знаменитой 'Little Wing' Джими Хендрикса, был Стинг.

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* Название альбома - цитата из первой строки 130 сонета шекспира: '
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun' ('Глаза ее ничем не схожи с солнцем'). - Примеч. пер.

The Lazarus Heart - Сердце Лазаря

Эта вещь обладает странным воздействием. Стинг исполняет песню со столь сложным текстом с изяществом, не удивляющим только того, кто сам не умеет петь. Он размышляет над вопросом, почему традиция связывает центр духовной деятельности человека не с мозгом, а с сердцем. Разбитое сердце - один из самых распространенных образов в поп-музыке. Стинг рассуждает обо всем этом в песне, в основу сюжета которой положен кошмарный сон. По своему настроению результат получился довольно близким к хиту Иона Андерсона и 'Yes' 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart'.

Be Still My Beating Heart - Оставайся Пульсом Моего Сердца

Возвращаемся к теме сердец: Стинг поет о борьбе с непрошеными чувствами, охватывающими человека, поддавшегося страсти. Он предупреждает: 'Be still my beating heart or I'll be taken for a fool... It's not healthy to run at this pace, the blood runs so red to my face' ('Оставайся пульсом моего сердца, а не то я прослыву дураком... Небезопасно бежать в таком темпе: кровь, такая красная, ударила мне в лицо'). У этой проблемы - одно решение. Холодный душ и трепка. Мало кто осмелился бы применить последнее средство на данном этапе сверхуспешной карьеры артиста. Бас-гитара выдает очень уместный здесь пульсирующий ритм, а тарелки хай-хэт регулируют темп исполнения. Сингл с этой мрачной песней занял пятнадцатое место в списках 'Billboard'.

Englishman In New York - Англичанин В Нью-Йорке

Спокойно-проницательный текст на фоне беспечного ритма, по своему звучанию подозрительно напоминающего 'wobble board' Рольфа Харриса. Песня оживляется, когда в нее вступает совсем не похожее на английское свинговое джазовое соло. По всему Нью-Йорку необдуманно развесили совершенно дурацкий плакат, приуроченный к выпуску сингла, где Стинг был изображен согнутым в малодушной позе. Это вызвало немалое недоумение приезжавших в город англичан. Американцы тоже не были в восторге, и сингл застрял на позиции 84 в местных хит-парадах. 'It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile - be yourself no matter what they say' ('Нужно быть мужчиной, чтобы вынести безразличие и улыбаться, - будь самим собой, и не важно, что говорят другие'), - утверждает Стинг. Увы, в Великобритании сингл тоже не пошел.

History Will Teach Us Nothing - история ничему нас не научит

Пессимистическое отношение к урокам истории. Верно, что люди повторяют одни и те же ошибки, но, как правило, это те люди, которые не учат историю. И все-таки Стинг непреклонен и предупреждает: 'If God is dead and an actor plays His part, his words of fear will find their way to a place in your heart. Without the voice of reason every faith is its own curse' ('Если Бог умер и актер играет Его роль, его исполненные страха слова найдут отклик в твоем сердце. Не подкрепленная голосом разума, любая вера превращается в проклятие'). До чего верно!

Бесстрастное исполнение песни и лаконичная манера подачи текста беспокоят сознание, делая эту вещь одной из самых коварных и интригующих в альбоме. Без интерлюдии в стиле регги, вклинивающейся в развитие главной темы, можно было бы обойтись, но, как напоминает Стинг: 'Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away' ('Рано или поздно мы научимся отбрасывать прочь наше прошлое'). Мудро сказано, приятель.

They Dance Alone (Gueca Solo) - они танцуют в одиночестве

Драматичное вступление с шуршащей барабанной дробью готовит нас к одному из самых блестящих в вокальном отношении номеров Стинга. Он охвачен мрачным настроением, превращая обычную поп-песню в действенное средство политической борьбы. Стрелы его полемики направлены на политического лидера одной из латиноамериканских стран, виновного в убийствах и пытках своих сограждан. Его жертвы числятся как 'пропавшие без вести'. Стинг спрашивает: 'Why are these women here dancing on their own? Why is there sadness in their eyes?' ('Почему эти женщины танцуют в одиночестве? Почему столько печали в их глазах?') Дело в том, что они танцуют с теми, кто исчез... 'They're dancing with the dead' ('Они танцуют с мертвыми'). Немногие артисты осмеливаются на такую прямоту, с которой Стинг задает вопрос: 'Hey Mr. Pinochet, you've sown a bitter crop. It's foreign money that supports you. One day the money's going to stop. No wages for your torturers, no budget for your guns. Can you think of your own mother dancing with her invisible son?' ('Эй, мистер Пиночет, ты посеял горькие семена. Тебя поддерживают иностранные деньги. Однажды деньги перестанут поступать. Твои палачи останутся без зарплаты, твои вооружения без бюджета. Можешь ли ты представить свою мать, танцующую с невидимым сыном?')

Стинг пользуется возможностью обратиться к широкой массовой аудитории, чтобы донести до людей важную мысль. На него сильно повлияли встречи с бывшими политзаключенными и жертвами пыток во время тура 'Amnesty' в 1986 г. 'Одно дело - читать о мучениях, но после разговора с их жертвой становишься на шаг ближе к реальности, столь пугающе вездесущей', - говорил он. Гуэка - это чилийский народный парный танец. Гуэка соло, или танец в одиночестве, исполняется женами, дочерьми и матерями 'пропавших без вести'. Стинг объяснял: 'Это символическое выражение протеста и боли в стране, где демократия не нуждается в той 'защите', которая там практикуется'. В апреле 1989 г. 'They Dance Alone' получила премию 'Ivor Novello'.

Fragile - хрупкость

Что хрупкое, то хрупкое. Это - размышления Стинга о бесцельности насилия и поэтический призыв не убивать друг друга. Поводом к написанию песни стали непрекращающиеся конфликты между политическими и криминальными группировками, последствия которых отравляют жизнь всем нам.

We'll Be Together - мы будем вместе

фанковая танцевальная разминка, незатейливая, нацеленная на чистое развлечение после мрачного настроения, созданного 'They Dance Alone' и 'Fragile'.

Великому американскому народу это понравилось больше, чем 'Englishman In New York', и бесхитростный ритм этой песни грохотал на всех дискотеках, а сингл взлетел на седьмую строчку в списках лучших хитов журнала 'Billboard' в октябре 1987 г. Стинг заливался: 'All I want to be is dancing with you in my arms' ('Все, что я хочу, - это танцевать, держа тебя в объятиях'). В конце концов, не такое уж плохое желание!

Straight To My Heart - прямо к моему сердцу

В музыку альбома врываются причудливые латиноамериканские ритмы, и Стинг, слегка пританцовывая, напевает жизнерадостную песню о любви и супружестве. 'Come into my door, you'll never have to sweep the floor' ('Входи в мою дверь, тебе никогда не придется подметать полы'), - говорит он своей возлюбленной. Это означает одно из двух: или он стал просвещенным человеком с передовыми взглядами, или просто купил новый пылесос.

Rock Steady - надежный, как камень

Песня, прекрасно исполненная в стиле джайв*. Стинг сочинил блестящий и забавный рассказ - своего рода версию истории о Ноевом ковчеге. Многословно, но весело.

Sister Moon - сестра луна

Не Бог весть как далеко ушел здесь Стинг от 'Summertime', но все равно это исключительно гармоничное и эмоциональное произведение, которое очень выигрывает благодаря сочным аккордам клавишных и навязчивому соло сопрано-саксофона. Вторгаясь на территорию Гершвина, Стинг

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* Джайв (
jive) -стиль танцевальной музыки; наибольшее распространение получил в Америке в 50-е гг. - Примеч. пер.

сочинил одну из самых серьезных песен в своей карьере, ставшую украшением альбома. Это вам не панк-рок. Комментарий автора: 'Эта песня посвящается лунатикам, всем тем, чье психическое здоровье зависит от фаз луны'.

Little Wing - крылышко

Нежное прочтение классической песни Джими Хендрикса. Стинг раскрывает все нюансы текста, написанного Джими. Приятным открытием стало прекрасное соло на гитаре Хайрема Баллока, оркестр Джила Эванса добавляет в звучание низкие сдержанные тона. Этот номер явился своеобразным итогом дружбы Стинга с Эвансом. Они познакомились в лондонском 'Ronnie Scott's Club'. 'Он был моим героем еще с четырнадцатилетнего возраста. Напоминал мне одного из тех мудрых старцев из 'Star Trek', оставшихся последними обитателями планеты после какой-то катастрофы, единственными хранителями знаний цивилизации'. Оба настолько понравились друг другу, что через пару лет Стинг исполнил 'Little Wing' с оркестром Джила в 'Sweet Basil's Club' в Гринвич-Виллидж. Причиной обращения к Хендриксу был и тот факт, что 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience' была одной из первых групп, увиденных Стингом живьем в клубе 'Go-Go' в Ньюкасле.

The Secret Marriage - тайная свадьба

В основу песни легла мелодия Ханса Эйслера, коллеги Бертольда Брехта, который уехал в Америку из нацистской Германии. Стинг отмечал, что 'нацизм преследовал его всю жизнь под разными масками'. Песня прославляет узы, для скрепления которых не нужна ни церковная служба, ни заверенный контракт. Немного таинственно Стинг сообщает: 'The secret marriage vow is never spoken, the secret marriage never can be broken' ('На тайной свадьбе никогда не произносится клятв, тайный брак никогда не распадается'). Нежный аккомпанемент акустического пианино и контрабаса придает пьесе классический аромат, делая ее более трогательной.

Многозначительные паузы и заключительная нота, повисшая в воздухе, несомненно, должны были вызвать вежливое покашливание и беспокойное ерзанье публики во время первого прослушивания.


The Soul Cages - Клетки Для Душ

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ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

А&М CD 396 405 2; выпущено: январь, 1991 год

В определенный момент карьеры на Стинга стал вовсю давить груз ответственности, усугубленный личными невзгодами. В результате этот добродушный, чувствительный и остроумный человек стал восприниматься как 'удручающе претенциозный зануда' ('Тhе Sunday Times', март, 1993 г.). Его критиковали за неумеренный филантропизм в связи с организацией 'Amnesty', за бесконечные телевизионные выступления во всех странах мира на пару с вождем индейского племени кай-апо и, наконец, за альбом 'Soul Cages', поводом для создания которого положена смерть его отца от рака. Дело в том, что Стингу хотелось выразить свое отношение к вопросам, важным для каждого думающего человека, но британской публике это показалось уже слишком!

В конечном счете альбом продавался не хуже предыдущих. Исключение составила Англия, где личную трагедию - смерть отца от рака не сочли подходящим поводом для развлечения. Стинг заранее объявил, что альбом получился интроспективным, полным самоуглубления и текст песен в значительной степени выстрадан им. Его менеджер Майлс Копленд говорил впоследствии: 'Это было серьезной ошибкой, которую мы уже не могли исправить. Если бы он не назвал альбом 'интроспективным', его бы лучше принимали, потому что на самом деле там было много ударных композиций'.

Но, несмотря на мрачные предзнаменования, 'Soul Cages' сразу попал на первую позицию британских хит-парадов в феврале 1991 г. и был номером два в американской 'US Top Ten' в том же месяце. Один из синглов, сделанных на основе материала этого альбома, 'All This Time', вошел в горячую десятку хитов.

Запись проходила во Франции и Италии с использованием новой технологии 'Q Sound', позволявшей добиться эффекта трехмерного звучания. Стинг снова работал с Ману Катче, исполнявшим партию на барабанах и со старыми друзьями Бренфордом Марселисом и Кенни Керклендом. Он признавался, что после 'Nothing Like The Sun' переживал творческий кризис, всерьез подумывая о том, что делать дальше. Печально, что источником вдохновения на этот раз было суждено стать именно смерти отца, придавшей оттенок скорби большей части работы.

Island Of Souls - остров душ

Серьезная песня, которую при всем желании нельзя охарактеризовать иначе, как крайне скучную. Тем не менее текст написан с любовью, подтверждая природный дар Стинга создавать эмоциональные стихи, умеющие проникать в души обездоленных и угнетенных, которые всегда ищут надежду на спасение. Песня, рассказывающая историю Билли, сына клепальщика, родившегося на побережье вблизи верфи ('...born within sight of the shipyard'), пронизана скорбным напевом нортумберлендских волынок. По ходу исполнения возникает ощущение, что невдалеке от берега показались паруса старого доброго судна 'Eleanor Rigby', но без добродушного ливерпульца за штурвалом, оживлявшего плавание соленым морским остроумием. В результате эта неповоротливая баржа бросает якорь среди мертвой зыби безразличия.

All This Time - все это время

Ману Катче одним прыжком срывается с места, выразительно отбивая ритм на малом барабане. Это несколько оживляет запись. Текст насыщен образами, связанными с рекой Тайн и туманами на ней. 'If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river and I'd bury the old man... at the sea' ('Если бы я мог, то взял бы лодку с реки и похоронил старика... у моря'), - поет Стинг на фоне струящегося ритма. Наверняка Вэн Моррисон мог бы сделать хорошую кавер-версию этой песни - если бы захотел.

Mad About You - схожу с ума по тебе

'Though all my kingdoms turn to sand and fall into the sea, I'm mad about you...' ('Хотя все мои царства превратились в песок и рухнули в море, я схожу с ума по тебе...') Здесь наш поэт сопоставляет все творения человека - непрочные, подверженные упадку и разрушению - с силой любви. Но любовь ведь тоже может превратиться в прах, если не поливать ее слезами сострадания...

Jeremiah Blues (Part I)  - блюз иеремии (часть i)

'Something wicked this way comes' ('Близится что-то зловещее'), - Стинг, вслед за Шекспиром и Брэдбери, произносит строку, которая явно выделяется в потоке других. Доза блюзовой паранойи придает песне столь необходимые ей энергию и ощущение беспокойства. Прекрасное гитарное соло и отличная работа ударных. Жаль, что они не записали вторую часть.

Why Should I Cry For You? - почему я должен плакать о тебе?

На этот вопрос мог бы ответить только сам автор. Нежный монолог требовал хорошего вкуса от ударника, и водоворот аккордов увлекает юного моряка далеко от берега, где он будет дрейфовать до конца своих дней, погруженный в размышления. В конце концов он заверяет дорогого его сердцу усопшего: 'I loved you in my fashion' ('Я любил тебя по-своему').

Saint Agnes And The Burning Train - святая агнесса и горящий поезд

Просто инструментальная интерлюдия, танец для классической гитары. И все сразу становится на свои места.

The Wild Wild Sea - бурное,бурное море

Длинная, длинная сага, которую лучше всего слушать, лежа на полу с бокалом бренди и сигарой и при этом пытаясь осмыслить символику текста. Стинг отправляется в путешествие по жизни на корабле, капитан которого - его отец, и соленые слезы моря текут, покорные ветрам судьбы. На самом деле песня не такая уж плохая, если частота вашего пульса гораздо медленней обычной.

The Soul Cages - клетки для душ

Как раз в тот момент, когда вам кажется, что Стинг вот-вот окончательно утонет в жалобных стенаниях, он вдруг оживает под аккомпанемент твердого и устойчивого ритма. Но содержание остается прежним: аллегории, связанные с печальной судьбой рабочего люда севера Англии...

'These are the souls of the broken factories these are the souls of a broken town...' ('Это-души разрушенных фабрик, это-души разрушенного города...') - скорбно провозглашает Стинг, и только сердитый гитарный рифф служит нам утешением.

When The Angels Fall - когда опускаются ангелы

Песня чрезвычайно медленная и занудная - странно, что ударник не заснул во время записи. Стинг произносит выстраданные, исповедальные слова удручающе бесстрастно. Не сравнить с куда более оживленной 'When The Angels Sing' Зигги Элмана. Последние такты похожи на неподъемные свинцовые гири - их никак не удается выжать до конца. Как упражнение по вытягиванию жил из слушателя эта песня вполне удалась.


Ten Summoner's Tales (1993)- Десять Историй Саммонера

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ БРИТАНСКИЙ ВЫПУСК:

А&М CD 540075-2; выпущено: март, 1993 год

 

Ten Summoner's Tales (1993)

Lyrics

Prologue (If I Ever Lose My Faith In You)

Love Is Sronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)

Fields of Gold

Heavy Cloud No Rain

She's Too Good For Me

Seven Days

Saint Augustine In Hell

It's Probably Me

Everybody Laughed But You

Shape Of My Heart

Something The Boy Said

Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)

 

'Soul Cages' стал настоящим хитом, как и подобало альбому звезды такого калибра, как Стинг. И все-таки альбом оставлял тревожное впечатление. Еще недавно, казалось, жизнерадостный певец вдруг стал мрачным, одержимым лишь собственными переживаниями. Это был совсем другой, незнакомый Стинг. Поэтому совершенно закономерным было решение музыканта сбросить наконец приросший к его плечам груз ответственности перед всем миром и записать альбом, свободный от излишнего самоуглубления. Снова в его музыке появился юмор и радостное настроение, и мир вздохнул с облегчением: Стинг вернулся, и вернулся с прекрасным альбомом.

Название 'Ten Summoner's Tales' появилось благодаря любви Стинга к Чосеру и его 'Кентерберийским рассказам', которые он прочел еще в школе. Настоящая фамилия Стинга - Самнер - восходит к слову 'саммонер'. Говоря современным языком, это судебные исполнители, которые во времена Чосера взимали штрафы с тех, кто не являлся в суд.

Продюсерами нового альбома стали Хью Пэдэм и Стинг. Запись проходила в Лейк Хаус, поместье времен короля Якова I, расположенном в графстве Уилтшир. Команду составили: Доминик Миллер (гитара), Винни Колайута (ударные), Дэвид Сэншес (клавишные) и сам Стинг (бас-гитара, губная гармоника и саксофон). В записи также участвовало множество музыкантов, игравших на духовых и струнных инструментах, а в одной из песен появился даже сам Ларри Адлер, великий мастер губной гармоники.

'Tales' был с восторгом встречен теми критиками, которые до этого ругали Стинга за 'Nothing Like The Sun' и 'Soul Cages'. Новый CD был более доступен для восприятия, содержал запоминающиеся мелодии, а некоторые песни даже встали в один ряд с лучшими композициями Стинга. Он рассказывал критику Полу Колберту: 'Я хотел порвать с самоедством и исповедальными песнями, каждый раз разрывавшими душу на части. Я подумал: 'Кто я - музыкант или психоаналитик?' После напряженной гастрольной деятельности Стинг решил сочинить несколько песен 'просто для забавы'. На этот раз он старался не писать о себе и своих сокровенных мыслях, а попробовал развлечь аудиторию, на которую он тогда ориентировался: свою группу и семью. Если это пришлось по душе остальным, что ж, тем лучше. Стинг даже позволил себе немного пошутить - и в музыке, и в текстах. Окружающие восприняли это с удовольствием: приятно было видеть, что чувство юмора, как и чувство меры, вновь вернулись к Стингу.

Prologue (If I Ever Lose My Faith In You) - пролог (если я когда-нибудь утрачу веру в тебя)

Превосходная песня, моментально ставшая классикой. Исполненная в трогательно простой манере, она содержит больше эмоций и прочувствованной страстности, чем все опусы последних лет, изобилующие напряженными копаниями в себе. Стинг рассказывает, как он потерял веру в ученых, политиков, даже в телеведущих, и пытается объяснить своей возлюбленной, что если когда-нибудь утратит веру в нее... что ж, тогда ему просто нечего будет делать в жизни. Блестящее владение губной гармоникой позволяет одухотворить резаный ритм песни человечностью и теплотой.

Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Magnificent Seven) - любовь сильнее справедливости (великолепная семерка)

Винни Колайута, пользующийся искренним уважением своих коллег как один из лучших ударников девяностых, выдает порцию отвязного фанка, отличающегося почти механической четкостью ритма, подвигая Стинга на один из самых фанковых экспериментов в его карьере. В песне есть даже интонации музыки кантри. Вы уверены, что перед вами Стинг?

Fields Of Gold - золотые поля

Как и в случае с 'If I Ever Lose My Faith In You', Стинг поднимает меч и щит, чтобы отстаивать гордо реющее знамя еще одной великолепной песни, исполненной с нежной поэтической умиротворенностью. Перед нами привлекательный во все времена поп-гимн, которому волнообразное дыхание струнных и гитар придает тепло и человечность.

Heavy Cloud No Rain - тяжелая туча без дождя

Чистый фанк: лучшая в мире ритм-секция работает удивительно сыгранно, настраивая Стинга на замечательную голосовую игру. Он рассказывает вечную историю о прорицателях, астрологах и синоптиках, которые не всегда могут сказать, откуда ветер дует.

She's Тоо Good For Me - она слишком хороша для меня

Если Стинг и старался развлечь новыми песнями свою группу и слушателей, то этот отвязанный рок с неожиданными сменами темпа и настроения и внезапной концовкой безусловно порадовал как тех, так и других. Стинг рассказывает о своей суперкритичной подруге, которой ничего в нем не нравится. 'She don't like the books I read... she don't like the way I feed, she don't want to save my life, she don't want to be my wife' ('Ей не нравятся книги, которые я читаю... ей не нравится, как я питаюсь, она не хочет спасти мою жизнь, она не хочет стать моей женой'), -жалуется Стинг... с улыбкой.

Seven Days - семь дней

Сильная, сделанная с любовью поп-композиция. Развернутая панорамная аранжировка богато украшена оркестровыми обертонами. По звучанию композиция напоминает увертюры из бродвейских мюзиклов сороковых годов. Герой Стинга обдумывает ультиматум, поставленный его любимой. Ему и гиганту, похожему на неандертальца, предстоит бороться за ее благосклонность. Соперничество не предусматривает сопоставления IQ - коэффициентов интеллекта, о чем Стинг и сообщает с горькой усмешкой: 'We won't be playing Scrabble for her hand I fear' ('Боюсь, что мы не будем играть в скраббл*[4] за ее руку и сердце').

Saint Augustine In Hell - святой августин в аду

Под блюз, насыщенный журчанием органа 'Хэммонд', наш герой с иронией и презрением отзывается о своих судьях, рассуждая об искушениях плоти. Песня изобилует шутками. Нам со знанием дела сообщают, что среди обитателей ада полно членов высокого суда,кардиналов,архиепископов, бухгалтеров и музыкальных критиков.

It's Probably Me - наверное, это я

Задумчивая, меланхолическая песня. Кто окажется настоящим другом в трудную минуту? 'I hate to say it, but it's probably me' ('Мне не хочется этого говорить, но, наверное, это буду я'). Подсурдиненная труба позволяет создать совершенно особенную атмосферу пустого бара, безлюдных улиц и неприкаянных душ. Кто 'я'?
________________
* Скраббл (
scrabble) - настольная игра, заключающаяся в составлении слов из случайного набора букв, аналогичная нашей игре 'Эрудит'-Примеч. пер.

Everybody Laughed But You - все смеялись, кроме тебя

Очень сильные, прекрасные по форме стихи, за которые не было бы стыдно и Ноэлю Каварду. С горечью вспоминаются друзья, растерянные на пути к успеху, остался только один,преданный и верный.

Shape Of My Heart - форма моего сердца

Чрезвычайно грустная баллада, которую испанская акустическая гитара и чудесная губная гармоника Ларри Адлера делают еще более меланхоличной. Стинг достаточно повзрослел, чтобы выдержать высокую планку этого безусловного шедевра, не впадая в слащавую сентиментальность.

Something The Boy Said - To, что сказал мальчик

Мальчик сказал: 'You'll never see our faces again' ('Вы больше никогда не увидите наших лиц'). С подлинным мастерством Стинг рассказывает интригующую историю, не раскрывая подлинного смысла вплоть до самой развязки. 'We would never have marched so far to be food for a crow' ('Мы бы никогда не пошли так далеко лишь для того, чтобы стать пищей для ворон'), - говорят солдаты своему капитану, сын которого предупредил их о кровавой бойне, ожидающей отряд впереди. Работа ударных напоминает монотонное тиканье часов, а губная гармошка - любимый инструмент солдат в окопах - усиливает атмосферу зловещего предчувствия.

Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me) - Эпилог ничего обо мне

Для многих это - любимая песня из очень достойного альбома. Удивительно теплый, забавный и очень уместный постскриптум к творчеству Стинга (на настоящий момент!). Забыты как болезненные тревоги недавнего прошлого, так и необузданность юных лет. И вот он сообщает нам с насмешливым огоньком в глазах: 'Check my facts, check if I paid my income tax, pore over everything in my C.V. but you'll still know nothing 'bout me' ('Проверьте факты моей биографии, проверьте, оплатил ли я подоходный налог, изучите вдоль и поперек мою анкету, и все равно вы не узнаете обо мне ничего'). Стинг очень уверен в себе и имеет для этого все основания. В финале, когда группа подпевает своему солисту хором в духе Гленна Миллера, а неумолимая восходящая басовая линия подводит эпилог к экстатическому и несколько саркастическому завершению, нам приходится признать: Стинг одерживает победу по всем статьям.


Указатель

POLICE

A Kind Of Loving________________73
A Sermon___________________72
BeMyGiri-Sally_____________26,83
Bed's Too Big Without You, The
_____31,68,82
Behing My Camel
_______________39
Bombs Away_________________39
Вот In The 50's _______________26, 83
Bring On The Night
____________30,81
Can't Stand Losing You
_________24, 83, 87
Canary In A Coalmine
_____________38
Contact____________________32
Darkness___________________48
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da_________39,85
Dead End Job
_________________66
Deathwish__________________30
Demolition Man________________46
Does Everyone Stare 32
Don't Stand So Close To Me
________35,87
Don't Stand So Close To Me '86
________76
Driven To Tears___________38, 72,100
Every Breath You Take
__________55,87
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
______45
Fall Out__________________65.80
Flexible Strategies
______________72
Friends____________________69
Hole In My Life______________24,80
How Stupid Mr. Bates
_____________73
Hungry For You
(J'aurais toujours (aim de toi) ______ 45
I Burn For You 75 Invisible Sun__________________45
It's Alright For You 30 King Of Pain________________55,86
Landlord
_______________66, 83, 67
Low Lite_________________73, 100
Man In A Suitcase
_____________40,74
Masoco Tanga
________________26
Message In A Bottle________29,74,81,85
Miss Gradenko
________________53

Mother____________________53
Murder By Numbers___ ______ 74
Next To You 21,67,79 No Time This Time___ ______ 32
Nothing Achieving 66 0 My God_________________53,85
Omegaman_________________47
On Any Other Day_______________31
Once Upon A Daydream____________75
One World (Not Three)__________47, 103
Other Way Of Stopping, The
__________40
Peanuts_________________24,82
Reggalta De Blanc
______________29
Rehumanize Yourself______________47
Roxanne_______________23, 82, 87
Secret Journey_______________47
Shadows In The Rain____________40,94
Shambelle
__________________T2
So Lonely_______________23, 79, 88
Someone To Talk To
_____________74
Spihts In The Material World________44,86
Synchronicity I
_______________51,84
Synchronicity II______________55, 84
Tea In The Sahara__________57, 75, 86
Too Much Information 46
Truth Hits Everybody 25,68,79
Visions Of The Night______________68
Voices Inside My Head__________38
Walking In Your Footsteps
_______ 53, 84
Walking On The Moon 31,80
When The World Is Running Down,
You Make The Best Of What's Still Around____38
Wrapped Around Your Finger________57, 85

STING
All This Time________________118
Another Day________________104
Be Still My Beating Heart
___________109
Bring On The Night/When The World
Is Running Down You Make
The Best Of What's Still Around________99
Children's Crusade___________94,105
Consider Me Gone
____________96,100
Demolition Man
________________103
Down So Long
________________106
Dream Of The Blue Turtles, The
______96,103
Driven To Tears
___________38, 72,100
Englishman In New York __ 109
Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me) 128
Everybody Laughed But You
_________ 125
Fields Of Gold 124 Fortress Around Your Heart__________96
Fragile_______________112
Heavy Cloud No Rain
_____________124
History Will Teach Us Nothing
_________110
I Burn For You
________________104
If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
______92
Island Of Souls 118 It's Probably Me_______________125
Jeremiah Blues (Part I)
____________119
Lazarus Heart, The
_____________109
Little Wing 113
Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Magnificent Seven)___________123
Love Is The Seventh Wave________92,103
Low Life___________________100
Mad About You
________________119
Moon Over Bourbon Street
________96,103
One World (Not Three)/ Love Is The Seventh Ware__________103
 

Prologue

(If I Even Lose My Faith In You)________123
Rock Steady
_________________113
Russians
___________________92
Saint Agnes And The Burning Train_______119
Saint Augustine In Hell
____________125
Secret Marriage, The
_____________114
Seven Days
________________124
Shadows In The Rain______________94
Shape Of My Heart 125 She's Too Good For Me____________124
Sister Moon
_________________113
Something The Boy Said
___________126
Soul Cages, The
_______________120
Straight To My Heart
____________112
Tea In The Sahara _______106
They Dance Alone (Gueca Solo)________111
We Work The Black Seam 94,100 We'll Be Together
_112
When The Angels Fall_____________120
Why Should I Cry For You?__________119
Wild Wild Sea, The_____________119

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'ПОЛИС' и СТИНГ

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Полный путеводитель по музыке 'The Police' и Стинга. Подробный анализ всех песен, выпущенных 'The Police', начиная с альбома 'Outlandos d'Amour' и вплоть до вышедшего недавно всеохватывающего комплекта записей. Также анализируется последующее сольное творчество бас-гитариста и вокалиста группы, Стинга.

Книга содержит:

 Подробный анализ всех песен, альбом за альбомом

 Особый раздел, посвященный сборникам, концертным альбомам и редким единичным записям

 Указатель песен, облегчающий поиск

 Восьмистраничную цветную вклейку

Крис Уэлч - один из самых известных британских музыкальных журналистов. После долгой блестящей карьеры в 'Melody Maker' он стал редактором журнала 'Metal Hammer' . Уэлч работал и в 'Rock World'. Им написано множество книг о рок- и поп-музыке. В настоящее время постоянный автор 'The Independent'. Помимо этого, Уэлч отлично играет на ударных.

В той же серии: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, The Doors, Queen, Bob Marley, U2. The Who. Rolling Stones. Eric Claoton, Genesis, Metallic ...


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update 6/16/01

Demolition Man [EP]

Sting

[Album Image]
Format: Audio CD
Label: A&M Records

Tracks

 

Listen to Audio Samples: To hear a sample, click the song title below.

 

1.

Demolition Man

2.

King Of Pain (live)

3.

Shape Of My Heart (live)

4.

Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven) - (live)

5.

It's Probably Me (live)

6.

Day In The Life, A (live)

 

Lyrics

Ain't No Sunshine

Ain't No Sunshine was originally covered by Sting when he appeared on a TV show in 1990 with David Sanborn (a version is included on Sanborn's Inside album). Sting then covered the song extensively on the Soul Cages tour where it fitted in beautifully with the often sombre, introspective material from that album. Undoubtedly one of the Sting's best cover versions, and inexplicably omitted from the MTV Unplugged and Soul Cages concert official videos, a live version of the track eventually appeared on the Acoustic Live In Newcastle CD which was recorded at the Buddle Arts Centre in Sting's native Wallsend. Simply wonderful.

[Эту песню я впервые услышыл в фильме Notting Hill с Джулией Робертс и Хью Грантом]

 

 Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

 It's not warm when she's away

 Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

 And she's always gone too long anytime she goes away

 

 Wonder this time where she's gone

 Wonder if she's gone to stay

 Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

 And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away

 

 And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

 I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

 I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

 I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

 

 Hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone

 But ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness everyday

 Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

 And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away

 

 Anytime she goes away

 Anytime she goes away

 Anytime she goes away

 Anytime she goes away

The Windmills Of Your Mind

[Эту песню я впервые услышыл в фильме Афера Томаса Крауна с Пирсом Броснаном и Рене Руссо, как вариант той же песни из ондоименного фильма 1960 года]

Round like a circle in a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending or beginning

On an ever-spinning reel

 

Like a snowball down mountain / as the images unwind

Or carnival balloon

Like carousel that's burning

Running rings around the moon.

 

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping

Past the minutes of its face

And the world is like on apple

Whirling silently in space

Like a circle that you find

In the windmills of your mind

 

Like a tunnel that you follow

To a tunnel of its own

Down a hollow to a cavern

Where the sun has never shone

Like door that keeps revolving

In a half forgotten dream

Are the ripples from the pebble

Someone tosses in a stream

 

Keys that jingle in your pocket

Word that jangle in your head

Why does summer go so quickly

Was it something what you said

Lovers walk along the shore

And view their

Police - Lyrics

Outlandos d'Amour - Lyrics

Outlandos d'Amour was the debut album from The Police. Recording started in January 1978 at Surrey Sound Studios and the album was released in October 1978 when it peaked at the #6 spot in the UK.

 

All songs/lyrics by Sting
except where stated.

Next To You

I can't stand it for another day
When you live so many miles away
Nothing here is gonna make me stay
You took me over, let me find a way

I sold my house
I sold my motor, too
All I want is to be next to you.
I'd rob a bank
Maybe steal a plane
You took me over
Think I'm goin' insane

What can I do
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do
All I want is to be next to you

I've had a thousand girls or maybe more
But I've never felt like this before
But I just don't know what's come over me
You took me over, take a look at me

What can I do
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do
All I want is to be next to you

All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you

Saw my doctor he said give it time
Got this feeling, gonna lose my mind
When all it is is just a love affair
You took me over baby, take me there

What can I do
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do
All I want is to be next to you

All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you...


So Lonely

Well, someone told me yesterday
That when you throw your love away
You act as if you don't care
You look as if you're going somewhere
But I just can't convince myself
I couldn't live with no one else
And I can only play that part
And sit and nurse my broken heart, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely

Now no-one's knocked upon my door
For a thousand years, or more
All made up and nowhere to go
Welcome to this one man show
Just take a seat, they're always free
No surprise, no mystery
In this theatre that I call my soul
I always play the starring role, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely

So lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
I feel lonely, I'm so lonely, I feel so low
I feel lonely, I'm so lonely, I feel so low


Roxanne

"I'd always wanted to make a connection between the energetic music of punk and more sophisticated musical forms. There was this amazingly aggressive music full of energy on the one hand, and I wanted to take it and bridge a gap between the interesting chords and harmonic variations and this wild energy. And what eventually allowed me to do it was listening to reggae. Bob Marley, especially. I saw a rhythmic connection between the fast bass of punk and the holes in reggae. I got interested in trying to write songs that combined these apparently diverse styles. I think we succeeded with Roxanne."
Melody Maker, 4/79

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light
Put on the red light, oh

I loved you since I knew ya
I wouldn't talk down to ya
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your make up
Told you once I won't tell you again it's a bad way

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
You don't have to put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light


Hole In My Life

Yeah, yeah, yeah
There's a hole in my life
There's a hole in my life

Shadow in my heart
Is tearing me apart
Or maybe it's just something in my stars

There's a hole in my life
There's a hole in my life
Be a happy man
I try the best I can
Or maybe I'm just looking for too much

There's something missing from my life
Cuts me open like a knife
It leaves me vulnerable
I have this disease
I shake like an incurable
God help me, please
Oh, there's a hole in my life
There's a hole in my life
Yeah, yeah, yeah

There's something missing from my life
Cuts me open like a knife
It leaves me vulnerable
I have this disease
I shake like an incurable
God help me, please
Oh, there's a hole in my life
There's a hole in my life


Peanuts

Written by Sting & Stewart Copeland

It's all a game
You're not the same
Your famous name
The price of fame

Oh no, try to liberate me
I said oh no, stay and irritate me
I said oh no, try to elevate me
I said oh no, just a fallen hero

Don't wanna hear about the drugs you're taking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking

You sang your song
For much too long
There's something wrong
The [your] brain has gone

Oh no, try to liberate me
I said oh no, stay and irritate me
I said oh no, try to elevate me
I said oh no, just a fallen hero

Don't wanna hear about the drugs you're taking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking

It's all a game
You're not the same
Your famous name
The price of fame

Oh no, try to liberate me
I said oh no, stay and irritate me
I said oh no, try to elevate me
I said oh no, just a fallen hero
Oh, you're just a fallen hero

Don't wanna hear about the drugs you're taking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking

Don't wanna find out what you've been taking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking

Don't wanna find out what you've been taking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking

Peanuts, peanuts
Peanuts....


Can't Stand Losing You

I've called you so many times today
And I guess it's all true what your girl-friends say
That you don't ever want to see me again
And your brother's gonna kill me and he's six feet ten
I guess you'd call it cowardice
But I'm not prepared to go on like this

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you

I see you sent my letters back
And my L.P. records and they're all scratched
I can't see the point in another day
When nobody listens to a word I say
You can call it lack of confidence
But to carry on living doesn't make no sense

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't stand losing you
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing

I guess this is our last goodbye
And you don't care, so I won't cry
But you'll be sorry when I'm dead
And all this guilt will be on your head
I guess you'd call it suicide
But I'm too full to swallow my pride
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't...


Truth Hits Everybody

Crow

 


Crowby Ted Hughes

"..."A Ted Hughes poem called "Truth Kills Everybody" gave me the idea for 'Truth Kills' in Last Exit which became Truth Hits Everybody on Outlandos D'Amour. Bring On The Night was originally called "Carrion Prince". I got the title from a Ted Hughes poem called King Of Carrion. It was about Pontius Pilate and so was the song originally..." - Sting-

Both Truth Kills Everybody and King Of Carrion appear in "Crow - From The Life and Songs of the Crow"

 

Sleep lay behind me like a broken ocean
Strange waking dreams before my eyes unfold
You lay there sleeping like an open doorway
I stepped outside myself and felt so cold
Take a look at my new toy
It'll blow your head in two, oh boy

Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

I thought about it and my dream was broken
I clutch at images like dying breath
And I don't want to make a fuss about it
The only certain thing in life is death
Take a look at my new toy
It'll blow your head in two, oh boy

Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

Where you want to be, won't you ever see?

Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

Ah....now!


Born In The 50's

We were born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties

My mother cried
When president Kennedy died
She said it was the communists
But I knew better

Would they drop the bomb on us
While we made love on the beach
We were the class they couldn't teach
'Cause we knew better

We were born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties

They screamed
When the Beatles sang
And they laughed when the King fell down the stairs
Oh they should've known better
Oh we hated our Aunts
Then we messed in our pants
Then we lost our faith and prayed to the TV
Oh we should've known better

We were born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties

We freeze like statues on the pages of history
Living was never like this when we took all those G.C.E.'s
Oh, you opened the door for us
And then you turned to dust
You don't understand us
So don't reprimand us
We're taking the future
We don't need no teacher

Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties


Be My Girl - Sally

Written by Sting & Andy Summers

Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl

Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl

Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl

Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, Be my girl

I was blue and lonely, I couldn't sleep a wink
And I could only get unconscious if I'd had to much to drink
There was somehow, something wrong somewhere
And each day seemed grey and dead
The seeds of desperation were growing in my head
I needed inspiration, a brand new start in life
Somewhere to place affection, but I didn't want a wife
And then by lucky chance I saw in a special magazine
An ad that was unusual, the like I'd never seen
"Experience something different with our new imported toy
She's loving, warm, inflatible and a guarantee of joy."
She came all wrapped in cardboard, all pink and shrivelled down
A breath of air was all she needed to make her lose that frown
I took her to the bedroom and pumped her with some life
And later in a moment that girl became my wife
And so I sit her in the corner and sometimes stroke her hair
And when I'm feeling naughty I blow her up with air
She's cuddly and she's bouncy, she's like a rubber ball
I bounce her in the kitchen and I bounce her in the hall
And now my life is different since Sally came my way
I wake up in the morning and have her on a tray
She's everything they say she was and I wear a permanent grin
And I only have to worry in case my girl wears thin

Won't you be my girl, won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl
Won't you be my girl, won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl
Won't you be my girl, won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl


Masoko Tanga

No lyrics - this song is just ad-libbed chanting,
with a good deal of Caribbean dialect swearing in it.
Take Sting's comments about the song with a
pinch of salt - Professor Blockson indeed!
Some journo's are just gullible to a wind-up...

Reggatta de Blanc - Lyrics

Reggatta de Blanc was The Police's second album. Recording started in February 1979 at Surrey Sound Studios and the album was released in October 1979 when assisted by the release of the single Message In A Bottle and Walking On The Moon, it hit the #1 spot in the UK.

All songs/lyrics by Sting
except where stated.

Message In A Bottle

строчка 'Sending out an SOS' ('Посылаю SOS'; читается: 'Эс-О-Эс') звучит как 'Sending out a Nesso Ess'. Дикция, друг мой, дикция

Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh
Another lonely day, with no one here but me, oh
More loneliness than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair, oh

A/D/E
I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. 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, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

A year has passed since I wrote my note
But 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 S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. 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, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

Walked out this morning, don't believe what I saw
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone at being alone
Hundred billion castaways, looking for a home
I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. 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, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

c#/A/H/fnon3

Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S...


Reggatta de Blanc

Written by Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers

Rio Rio Rioo
Rio Rio Rioo
Rio Riay Riayo
Rio Riay Riayo
Rio Riay Riayo
Rio Riay Riayo
Rio Riay Riayo Riayo,
Riayo, Riayo, Riay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay


It's Alright For You

Written by Sting & Stewart Copeland

Wake up
Make up
Bring it up
Shake up
Stand by
Don't cry
Watching while the world dies

Big car
Movie star
Hot tip
Go far
Blind date
Too late
Take a bus
Don't wait

It's alright for you
It's alright for you
It's alright for you
For you and you and you and you and you

It's alright for you
It's alright for you
It's alright for you
For you and you and you

Limp wrist
Tight fist
Contact
No twist
Black dress
No mess
People want no less, no less

Stand by
Don't cry
Watching while the world dies
Three lane
Fast lane
Standing in the cold rain

It's alright for you
It's alright for you
It's alright for you
For you and you and you and you and you

It's alright for you
It's alright for you
It's alright for you
For you

Headlight
High life
Can't sleep
Good night
Up tight
Big fight
Big deal
Too right, too right

Big town
Don't drown
Jump back
Turn around
No life
Flick knife
Finish off my life

It's alright for you
It's alright for you
It's alright for you
For you and you and you and you and you

It's alright for you
It's alright for you
It's alright for you
For you


Bring On The Night

The afternoon has gently passed me by
The evening spreads itself against the sky
Waiting for tomorrow, just another day
God bid yesterday good-bye

Bring on the night
I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight

The future is but a question mark
Hangs above my head, there in the dark
Can't see for the brightness is staring me blind
God bid yesterday good-bye

Bring on the night
I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight

I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight


Deathwish

Written by Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers & Sting

Deathwish in the fading light
Headlight pointing through the night
Never thought I'd see the day
Playing with my life this way

Gotta keep my foot right down
If I had wings I'd leave the ground
Burning in the outside lane
People think that I'm insane

The day I take a bend too fast
Judgement that could be my last
I'll be wiped right off the slate
Don't wait up 'cause I'll be late

I'll be late...


Walking On The Moon

Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon
We could walk for ever
Walking on the moon
We could live together
Walking on, walking on the moon

Walking back from your house
Walking on the moon
Walking back from your house
Walking on the moon
Feet they hardly touch the ground
Walking on the moon
My feet don't hardly make no sound
Walking on, walking on the moon

Some may say
I'm wishing my days away, no way
And if it's the price I pay, some say
Tomorrow's another day, you'll stay
I may as well play

Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon
We could walk for ever
Walking on the moon
We could be together
Walking on, walking on the moon

Some may say
I'm wishing my days away no way
And if it's the price I pay, some say
Tomorrow's another day, you'll stay
I may as well play


On Any Other Day

Written by Stewart Copeland

The other ones are complete bullshit

You want something corny?
You got it

There's a house on my street
And it looks real neat
I'm the chap who lives in it
There's a tree on the sidewalk
There's a car by the door
I'll go for a drive in it
And when the wombat comes
He will find me gone
He'll look for a place to sit

My wife has burned the scrambled eggs
The dog just bit my leg
My teenage daughter ran away
My fine young son has turned out gay

Cut off my fingers in the door of my car
How could I do it?
My wife is proud to tell me
Of her love affairs
How could she do this to me?

My wife has burned the scrambled eggs
The dog just bit my leg
My teenage daughter ran away
My fine young son has turned out gay
And it would be O.K. on any other day
And it would be O.K. on any other day

Throw down the morning papers
And spill my tea
I don't know what's wrong with me
The cups and plates are in a conspiracy
I'm covered in misery

My wife has burned the scrambled eggs
The dog just bit my leg
My teenage daughter ran away
My fine young son has turned out gay
And it would be O.K. on any other day
And it would be O.K. on any other day
And it would be O.K. on any other day
And it would be O.K. on any other day


The Bed's Too Big Without You

Bed's too big without you
Cold wind blows right through my open door
I can't sleep with your memory
Dreaming dreams of what used to be
When she left I was cold inside
That look on my face was just pride
No regrets, no love, no tears
Living on my own was the least of my fears

Bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you

Since that day when you'd gone
Just had to carry on
I get through the day, but late at night
Made love to my pillow, but it didn't feel right

Every day just the same
Old rules for the same old game
All I gained was heartache
All I made was one mistake
Now the bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you


Contact

Written by Stewart Copeland

I've got a lump in my throat about the note you wrote
I'd come on over but I haven't got a raincoat
Have we got contact, you and me?
Have we got touchdown
Can't we be?

I've got contacts in my book and in my eyes
My good connection on the telephone never lies
Have we got contact, you and me?
Have we got touchdown
Can't we be?

I've got a list of the people I have known
I'm never alone on the end of a phone
Have we got contact, you and me?
Have we got touchdown
Can't we be?

I've got a lump in my throat about the note you wrote
I'd come on over but I haven't got a raincoat
I'd come on over but I haven't got a raincoat

Have we got touchdown, can't we be?
Have we got contact, you and me?
Have we got touchdown, can't we be?
Have we got contact, you and me?


Does Everyone Stare

Written by Stewart Copeland

I change my clothes ten times
Before I take you on a date
I'm in a cold sweat, my panic it makes me late
I know you never asked for this
I know
My shots will always miss
My shots will always miss

Does everyone stare this way at you?
I only look this way at you

I change my clothes ten times
Before I take you on a date
I get the heebie-jeebies, and my panic makes me late
I break into a cold sweat reaching for the phone
I let it ring twice before
I chicken out and decide you're not at home

Does everyone stare the way I do?
I only stare this way at you

I never noticed the size of my feet
'Til I kicked you in the shins
Will you ever forgive me for the shape I'm in
For the shape I'm in

Does everyone stare the way I do?
I only stare this way at you

I'm gonna write you a sonnet but I don't know where to start
I'm so used to laughing at the things in my heart
Last of all I'm sorry 'cos you never asked for this
I can see I'm not your type and my shots will always miss, always miss

Does everyone stare the way I do?
I only stare this way at you
Does everyone stare the way I do?
I only stare this way at you
Does everyone stare the way I do?
I only stare this way at you
Does everyone stare the way I do?
I only stare this way at you
Does everyone stare the way I do?
I only stare this way at you
Does everyone stare the way I do?
I only stare this way at you


No Time This Time

[Note the lyrics are as per the Message In A Box The Complete Transcriptions, but the words in orange are what we believe is actually sung]

No time for complexities [the niceties] of conversation
No time for smiles, no time for knowing
No
[Less] time for intricacies of explanation
No
[Less] time for sharing [caring] even less for showing

If I could, I'd slow the whole world down
I'd bring it to it's knees
I'd stop it spinning round
But as it is, I'm climbing up an endless wall

No time at all
No time this time
No time at all
No time this time

No time for a quick kiss
[cigarette] at the railway station
No time for a suitcase, sandwich and a morning paper
Only time for time table calls and transportation
No time to think no time to dare

If I could, I'd slow the whole world down
I'd bring it to it's knees
I'd stop it spinning round
But as it is, I'm climbing up an endless wall

No time at all
No time this time
No time at all
No time this time

If I could, I'd slow the whole world down
I'd bring it to it's knees
I'd stop it spinning round
But as it is, I'm climbing up an endless wall

No time at all
No time this time
No time at all
No time this time
No time at all
No time this time
No time at all
No time this time
No time at all
No time at all

Zenyatta Mondatta - Lyrics

Zenyatta Mondatta was The Police's 'awkward' third album. Recording started in the summer of 1980, shortly after The Police's groundbreaking world tour finished, at Wisselwoord Studios in Hilversum, Holland. The album was released on Sting's birthday in October 1980, and made the #1 spot in the UK. The album was also the most successful to date for the band in the States, where it stayed in the top 20 for six months, achieving platinum status (1 million sales).

 

All songs/lyrics by Sting
except where stated.

Don't Stand So Close To Me

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's 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 staff room
The accusations fly
It's no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the 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


Driven To Tears

How can you say that your not responsible?
What does it have to do with me?
What is my reaction?
What should it be?
Confronted by this latest atrocity
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears

Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat
My comfortable existence is reduced
To a shallow, meaningless party
Seems that when some innocents die
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Too many cam'ras and not enough food
'Cause this is what we've seen
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears

Protest is
futile[5]
Nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world?
Who knows what to do?
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears


When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around

Turn on my V.C.R., same one I've had for years
James Brown on the Tami show,
Same tape I've had for years
I sit in my old car, same one I've had for years
Old battery's running down, it ran for years and years

Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears
Tell me, where would I go? I ain't been out in years
Turn on the stereo, it's played for years and years
An Otis Redding song, it's all I own

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

Plug in my M.C.I, to excercise my brain
Make records on my own, can't go out in the rain
Pick up the telephone, I've listened here for years
No one to talk to me, I've listened here for years

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When I feel lonely here, don't waste my time with tears
I run 'Deep Throat' again, it ran for years and years
Don't like the food I eat, the cans are running out
Same food for years and years, I hate the food I eat

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around


Canary In A Coalmine

First to fall over when the atmosphere
is less than perfect
Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect
You live you life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

You say you want to spend the winter in Firenza
You're so afraid to catch a dose of influenza
You live your life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine

Now if I tell you that you suffer from delusions
You pay your analyst to reach the same conclusions
You live your life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine

First to fall over when the atmosphere is less than perfect
Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect
You live your life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine


Voices Inside My Head

Voices inside my head
Echoes of things that you said
Voices inside my head
Echoes of things that you said
Voices inside my head
Echoes of things that you said
Voices inside my head
Echoes of things that you said


Bombs Away

Written by Stewart Copeland

The general scratches his belly and thinks
His pay is good but his officers stink
Guerilla girl, hard and sweet
A military man would love to meet
The President looks in the mirror and speaks
His shirts are clean but his country reeks
Unpaid bills, in Afghanistan hills

A/G

Bombs away
But we're O.K.
Bombs away
In old Bombay

The general only wants to teach France to dance
His army life doesn't give him any romance
Guerilla girl, hard and sweet
A military man would love to meet
The general scratches his belly and thinks
His pay is good but his company stinks
Guerilla girl, hard and sweet
A military man would love to meet

Bombs away
But we're O.K.
Bombs away
In old Bombay

Bombs away
But we're O.K.
Bombs away
In old Bombay

Bombs away
But we're O.K.
Bombs away
In old Bombay

Bombs away
But we're O.K.
Bombs away
In old Bombay


De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

Don't think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They're only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true

Poets, priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one's jamming their transmission
And when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true


Behind My Camel

written by Andy Summers

Instrumental

Cm/D/G


Man In A Suitcase

I'd invite you back to my place
It's only mine because it holds my suitcase
It looks like home to me alright
But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night

Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face
Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face

Another key for my collection
For security I race for my connection
Bird in a flying cage you'll never get to know me well
The world's my oyster, a hotel room's a prison cell

Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face
Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face

I'd invite you back to my place
It's only mine because it holds my suitcase
It looks like home to me alright
But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night

Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face
Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face

Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face
Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face


Shadows In The Rain

( 2 вариант в сольном альбоме Стинга)

 

I woke up in my clothes again this morning
I don't know exactly where I am
And I should heed my doctor's warning
He does the best with me he can

He claims I suffer from delusion
But I'm so confident I'm sane
It can't be an optical illusion
So how can you explain
Shadows in the rain

And if you see us on the corner
We're just dancing in the rain
I tell my friends there when I see them
Outside my window pane
Shadows in the rain

[муровато, полагаю, что продюсер просто бросил это как было - в наброске]


The Other Way of Stopping

written by Stewart Copeland

Instrumental.

Ghost In The Machine - Lyrics

Ghost In The Machine was The Police's fourth album, recorded at Air Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. Recording started in June 1981 and again the album was released in October that year. The album topped the UK album chart and reached the #2 spot in the States where it stayed for six weeks.

 

All songs/lyrics by Sting
except where stated.

Spirits In The Material World

There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure
We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

Where does the answer lie?
Living from day to day
If it's something we can't buy
There must be another way

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world


Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Though I've tried before to tell her
Of the feelings I have for her in my heart
Every time that I come near her
I just lose my nerve as I've done from the start

Every little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on

Do I have to tell the story
Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet

Every little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on

I resolved to call her up
A thousand times a day
And ask her if she'll marry me
In some old fashioned way
But my silent fears have gripped me
Long before I reach the phone
Long before my tongue has tripped me
Must I always be alone?

Every little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Every little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, yeah

Every little thing, every little thing
Every little thing, every little thing
Every li'le, every li'le, every li'le
Every little thing she does
Every little thing, every little thing
Every little thing, every little thing
Every li'le, every li'le, every li'le
Every little thing she does


Invisible Sun

I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Looking at the barrel of an Armalite
I don't want to spend the rest of my days
Keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say

I don't want to spend my time in hell
Looking at the walls of a prison cell
I don't ever want to play the part
Of a statistic on a government chart

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

It's dark all day, and it glows all night
Factory smoke and acetylene light
I face the day with me head caved in
Looking like something that the cat brought in

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

And they're only going to change this place by
Killing everybody in the human race
And they would kill me for a cigarette
But I don't even wanna die just yet

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives us hope when the whole day's done


Hungry For You

(j'aurai toujours faim de toi)

Rien de dormir cette nuit
Je veux de toi
Jusqu'а ce que je sois sec
Mais nos corps sont tous mouillйs
Complиtement couverts de sueur
Nous nous noyons dans la marйe
Je n'ai aucun dйsir
Tu as ravagй mon coeur
Et moi j'ai bu ton sang
Mais nous pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
J'aurai toujours faim de toi
Mais nous pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
J'aurai toujours faim de toi

Tout le monde est а moi
Je l'ai gagnй dans un jeu de cartes
Et maintenant je m'en fous
C'йtait gagnй trop facilement
Зa y est alors, ma belle traоtresse
Il faut que je brыle de jalousie
Tu as ravagй mon coeur
Et moi j'ai bu ton sang
Mais nous pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
J'aurai toujours faim de toi
Mais nous pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
J'aurai toujours faim de toi

Mais nous pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
J'aurai toujours faim de toi
Mais nous pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
J'aurai toujours faim de toi
No matter what I do
I'm still hungry for you
No matter what I do
I'm still hungry for you

Rien de dormir cette nuit
Je veux de toi jusqu'а ce que je sois sec
Mais nos corps sont tous mouillйs
Complиtement couverts de sueur

I'm hungry for you
I'm hungry for you
I'm still hungry for you
I'm hungry for
I'm hungry for you


Demolition Man

Oh! Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition

Tied to the tracks and the train's fast coming
Strapped to the wing with the engine running
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man

Tied to a chair, and the bomb is ticking
This situation was not of your picking
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man

I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition

You come to me like a moth to the flame
It's love you need but I don't play that game
'Cause you could be my greatest fan
But I'm nobody's friend, I'm a demolition man

I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition

Tied to the tracks and the train's fast coming
Strapped to the wing with the engine running
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man

Tied to a chair, and the bomb is ticking
This situation was not of your picking
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man


Too Much Information

Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane
Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane

I've seen the whole world six times over
Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover
I've seen the whole world six times over
Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover

Overkill, overview
Over my dead body
Over me, over you
Over everybody

Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane
Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane

Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane
Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane

Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane
Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane

I've seen the whole world six times over
Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover
I've seen the whole world six times over
Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover

Overkill, overview
Over my dead body
Over me, over you
Over everybody

Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane
Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane


Rehumanize Yourself

He goes out at night with his big boots on
None of his friends know right from wrong
They kick a boy to death 'cause he don't belong
You've got to humanize yourself

A policeman put on his uniform
He'd like to have a gun just to keep him warm
Because violence here is a social norm
You've got to humanize yourself

Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself

I work all day at the factory
I'm building a machine that's not for me
There must be a reason that I can't see
You've got to humanize yourself

Billy's joined the National Front
He always was (just) a little runt
He's got his hand in the air with the other cunts
You've got to humanize yourself

Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself

I work all day at the factory
I'm building a machine that's not for me
There must be a reason that I can't see
You've got to humanize yourself

A policeman put on his uniform
He'd like to have a gun just to keep him warm
Because violence here is a social norm
You've got to humanize yourself

Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself
Re-humanize yourself


One World (Not Three)

One world is enough, for all of us
One world is enough, for all of us

It's a subject we rarely mention
But when we do we have this little invention
By pretending they're a different world from me
I show my responsibility
One world is enough, for all of us
One world is enough, for all of us

The third world breathes our air tomorrow
We live on the time we borrow
In our world there's no time for sorrow
In their world there is no tomorrow
One world is enough, for all of us
One world is enough, for all of us

Lines are drawn upon the world
Before we get our flags unfurled
Whichever one we pick
It's just a self deluding trick
One world is enough, for all of us
One world is enough, for all of us

I don't want to bring a sour note
Remember this before you vote
We can all sink or we all float
'Cause we're all in the same big boat
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday


Omegaman

Written by Andy Summers

The night came down, jungle sounds were in my ears
City screams are all I've heard in twenty years
The razor's edge of night it cuts into my sleep
I sit upon the edge now shall I make that leap?

I'm the Omegaman
I'm the Omegaman

The sky's alive with turned on television sets
I walk the streets and seek another vision yet
The echo makes me turn to see that last frontier
The edge of time closes down as I disappear

I'm the Omegaman
I'm the Omegaman
I'm the Omegaman
I'm the Omegaman
Always talking to myself

The time that's best is when surroundings fade away
The presence of another world comes close to me
It's time for me to throw away this paper knife
I'm not alone in reaching for a perfect life

I'm the Omegaman
I'm the Omegaman
I'm the Omegaman
I'm the Omegaman

I'm so tired
Of the Omegaman
I'm so tired
Of the Omegaman
I'm so tired
Of the Omegaman
I'm so tired
Of the Omegaman
I'm so tired
Of the Omegaman...


Secret Journey

Meetings With Remarkable Men

 Гурджиев

Meetings with Remarkable Men
by C I Gurdjieff

"...Secret Journey is a quasi-mystical song. You have to do something, go somewhere, to get outside yourself. I read the book "Meetings With Remarkable Men" which says you have to make a journey. It doesn't have to be a real journey, it can be a mental journey."..." - Sting

 

Upon a secret journey
I met a holy man
His blindness was his wisdom
I'm such a lonely man

And as the world was turning
It rolled itself in pain
This does not seem to touch you
He pointed to the rain

You will see light in the darkness
You will make some sense of this
And when you've made your secret journey
You will find this love you miss

And on the days that followed
I listened to his words
I strained to understand him
I chased his thoughts like birds

You will see light in the darkness
You will make some sense of this
And when you've made your secret journey
You will find this love you miss

You will see light in the darkness
You will make some sense of this
You will see joy in this sadness
You will find this love you miss

And when you've made your secret journey
You will be a holy man
And when you've made your secret journey
You will be a holy man
And when you've made your secret journey
You will be a holy man
And when you've made your secret journey
You will be a holy man


Darkness

Written by Stewart Copeland

I can dream up schemes when I'm sitting in my seat
I don't see any flaws 'til I get to my feet
I wish I never woke up this morning
Life was easy when it was boring

I could make a mark if it weren't so dark
I could be replaced by any bright spark
But darkness makes me fumble
For a key, to a door that's wide open

Instead of worrying about my clothes
I could be someone that nobody knows
I wish I never woke up this morning
Life was easy when it was boring

I can dream up schemes when I'm sitting in my seat
I don't see any flaws 'til I get to my feet
I wish I never woke up this morning
Life was easy when it was boring

I wish I never woke up this morning
Life was easy when it was boring

Synchronicity - Lyrics

Работа над материалом к новому альбому началась в первые недели 1982 г., когда Стинг арендовал поместье 'Golden Eye' ('Золотой глаз'), ранее принадлежавшее Яну Флемингу.

Synchronicity was The Police's final studio album. Work on the album commenced at the end of 1982, once again in Montserrat. Recording was difficult due to the well publicised personal tensions between the band members, but the album is considered by many to be a 'classic', and was released in June 1983. Aided by the killer single Every Breath You Take, the album soared to the #1 spot on both sides of the Atlantic. Indeed, the album stayed at the top of US chart for an incredible 17 weeks.

 

All songs/lyrics by Sting
except where stated.

Synchronicity I

Words & Music by Sting

With one breath, with one flow
You will know
Synchronicity

A sleep trance, a dream dance
A shared romance
Synchronicity

A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Science insusceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectible
Yet nothing is invincible


If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi

If you act, as you think
The missing link
Synchronicity

We know you, they know me
Extrasensory
Synchronicity

A star fall, a phone call
It joins all
Synchronicity

It's so deep, it's so wide
Your inside
Synchronicity

Effect without a cause
Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause

Synchronicity......


Walking In Your Footsteps

Words & Music by Sting

Fifty million years ago
You walked upon the planet so
Lord of all that you could see
Just a little bit like me

Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps

Hey Mr. Dinosaur
You really couldn't ask for more
You were God's favourite creature
But you didn't have a future

Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps

Hey mighty brontosaurus
Don't you have a message for us
You thought your rule would always last
There were no lessons in your past
You were built three storeys high
They say you would not hurt a fly
If we explode the atom bomb
Would they say that we were dumb?

Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps

Fifty million years ago
They walked upon the planet so
They live in a museum
It's the only place you'll see 'em

Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps

They say the meek shall inherit the earth
They say the meek shall inherit the earth

Walking in your footsteps


O My God

Words & Music by Sting

Everyone I know is lonely
And God's so far away
And my heart belongs to no one,
So now sometimes I pray
Please take the space between us
And fill it up some way
Take the space between us
And fill it up some way

O my God you take the biscuit
Treating me this way
Expecting me to treat you well
No matter what you say
How can I turn the other cheek
It's black and bruised and torn
I've been waiting
Since the day that I was born

Take the space between us
And fill it up some way
Take the space between us
And fill it up some way

The fat man in his garden
The thin man at his gate
My God you must be sleeping
Wake up it's much too late

Take the space between us
And fill it up some way
Take the space between us
And fill it up some way

Do I have to tell the story
Of a thousand rainy days
Since we first met?
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet


Mother

Words & Music by Andy Summers

Well, the telephone is ringing,
Is that my mother on the phone?
Telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?
The telephone is screaming
Won't she leave me alone?
The telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?

Well every girl that I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Well, I hear my mother calling
But I don't need her as a friend

Oh, Oh mother
Oh mother dear please listen
And don't devour me
Oh mother dear please listen
Don't devour me
Oh women please have mercy
Let this poor boy be
Oh mother dear please listen
And don't devour me


Miss Gradenko

Words & Music by Stewart Copeland

Don't tell the director I said so
But are you safe Miss Gradenko?
We were at a policy meeting
They were planning new ways of cheating
I didn't want to rock your boat
But you sent this dangerous note
You've been letting your feelings show

Are you safe Miss Gradenko?
Miss Gradenko are you safe?
Are you safe Miss Gradenko?
Miss Gradenko are you safe?

Is anybody alive in here?
Is anybody alive in here?
Is anybody alive in here?
Nobody but us
Nobody but us
Is anybody alive in here?
Nobody but us

Your uniform doesn't seem to fit
You're much too alive in it
You've been letting your feelings show

Are you safe Miss Gradenko?
Miss Gradenko are you safe?

Is anybody alive in here?
Is anybody alive in here?
Is anybody alive in here?
Nobody but us in here
Nobody but us

Nobody but us in here
Nobody but us


Synchronicity II

Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like
cheap tarts in a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away
Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish lake

Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in the headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away
There's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake

Many miles away, many miles away


Every Breath You Take

Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take
I'll be watching you

Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play, every night you stay
I'll be watching you

Oh, can't you see
You belong to me?
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take
Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake, every claim you stake
I'll be watching you

Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace
I dream at night, I can only see your face
I look around, but it's you I can't replace
I feel so cold, and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby please,

Oh, can't you see
You belong to me?
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take
Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake, every claim you stake
I'll be watching you
Every move you make, every step you take
I'll be watching you
I'll be watching you


King Of Pain

There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a little black spot on the sun today
That's my soul up there
It's the same old thing as yesterday
That's my soul up there
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
That's my soul up there
There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop
That's my soul up there

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall
That's my soul up there
There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall
That's my soul up there
There's a blue whale beached by a springtime's ebb
That's my soul up there
There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web
That's my soul up there

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out
There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt
There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed
There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread

King of pain

There's a red fox torn by a huntsman's pack
That's my soul up there
There's a black-winged gull with a broken back
That's my soul up there
There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday

I have stood here before in the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I always thought you could end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

King of pain
King of pain
King of pain
I'll always be king of pain


Wrapped Around Your Finger

You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger

I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turned into a shining band of gold

I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger

Mephistopheles is not your name
But I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your tuition
And you will see it come to it's fruition

I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger

Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air, you'll never find me
I will turn your face to alabaster
Then you'll find your servant is your master

You'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger


Tea In The Sahara

My sisters and I
Have this wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession

We want our tea in the Sahara with you
We want our tea in the Sahara with you

The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
They would wait for him here
The same place every year
Beneath the sheltering sky
Across the desert he would fly

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

The sky turned to black
Would he ever come back?
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups full of sand

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you


Murder By Numbers

Written by Sting & Andy Summers

Once that you've decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art

There really isn't any need for bloodshed
You just do it with a little more finesse
If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee
Then it avoids an awful lot of mess

It's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC

Now if you have a taste for this experience
And you're flushed with your very first success
Then you must try a twosome or a threesome
And you'll find your conscience bothers you much less

Because murder is like anything you take to
It's a habit-forming need for more and more
You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a bore

Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC

Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history's great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name

But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand

Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E

The Police Live! - Lyrics

Released ten years too late in 1995, The Police Live! is a double live album which features two almost complete Police shows - one from the Orpheum in Boston in 1979 and the other from the Omni in Atlanta in 1983. Both shows are very different - in some cases it's almost like different bands. Terrific stuff in both cases.

 

All songs/lyrics by Sting
except where stated.

Next To You

I can't stand it for another day
When you live so many miles away
Nothing here is gonna make me stay
You took me over, let me find a way

I sold my house
I sold my motor, too
All I want is to be next to you.
I'd rob a bank
Maybe steal a plane
You took me over
Think I'm goin' insane

What can I do
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do
All I want is to be next to you

I've had a thousand girls or maybe more
But I've never felt like this before
But I just don't know what's come over me
You took me over, take a look at me

What can I do
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do
All I want is to be next to you

All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you

Saw my doctor he said give it time
Got this feeling, gonna lose my mind
When all it is is just a love affair
You took me over baby, take me there

What can I do
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do
All I want is to be next to you
What can I do
All I want is to be next to you

All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you...


So Lonely

Well, someone told me yesterday
That when you throw your love away
You act as if you don't care
You look as if you're going somewhere
But I just can't convince myself
I couldn't live with no one else
And I can only play that part
And sit and nurse my broken heart, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely

Now no-one's knocked upon my door
For a thousand years, or more
All made up and nowhere to go
Welcome to this one man show
Just take a seat, they're always free
No surprise, no mystery
In this theatre that I call my soul
I always play the starring role, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely

So lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
I feel lonely, I'm so lonely, I feel so low
I feel lonely, I'm so lonely, I feel so low


Truth Hits Everybody

Sleep lay behind me like a broken ocean
Strange waking dreams before my eyes unfold
You lay there sleeping like an open doorway
I stepped outside myself and felt so cold
Take a look at my new toy
It'll blow your head in two, oh boy

Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

I thought about it and my dream was broken
I clutch at images like dying breath
And I don't want to make a fuss about it
The only certain thing in life is death
Take a look at my new toy
It'll blow your head in two, oh boy

Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

Where you want to be, won't you ever see?

Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone

Ah....now!


Walking On The Moon

Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon
We could walk for ever
Walking on the moon
We could live together
Walking on, walking on the moon

Walking back from your house
Walking on the moon
Walking back from your house
Walking on the moon
Feet they hardly touch the ground
Walking on the moon
My feet don't hardly make no sound
Walking on, walking on the moon

Some may say
I'm wishing my days away, no way
And if it's the price I pay, some say
Tomorrow's another day, you'll stay
I may as well play

Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon
We could walk for ever
Walking on the moon
We could be together
Walking on, walking on the moon

Some may say
I'm wishing my days away no way
And if it's the price I pay, some say
Tomorrow's another day, you'll stay
I may as well play


Hole In My Life

Yeah, yeah, yeah
There's a hole in my life
There's a hole in my life

Shadow in my heart
Is tearing me apart
Or maybe it's just something in my stars

There's a hole in my life
There's a hole in my life
Be a happy man
I try the best I can
Or maybe I'm just looking for too much

There's something missing from my life
Cuts me open like a knife
It leaves me vulnerable
I have this disease
I shake like an incurable
God help me, please
Oh, there's a hole in my life
There's a hole in my life
Yeah, yeah, yeah

There's something missing from my life
Cuts me open like a knife
It leaves me vulnerable
I have this disease
I shake like an incurable
God help me, please
Oh, there's a hole in my life
There's a hole in my life


Fall Out

Written by Stewart Copeland

(this is the version that appears in the Message In A Box Complete Transcriptions)

I never followed leaders
I got no machine
An' I paid my dues all along
Always says your freakin'
When I mess with other people
'Cause I knew that I was really alone

Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys

I saw my education
It was my indoctrination
Just to be another parking machine
Always says your freakin'
When I mess with other people
'Cause I knew that I was not very clean

Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys

Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys

Henri!

Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys

Fall Out!


Bring On The Night

The afternoon has gently passed me by
The evening spreads its sail against the sky
Waiting for tomorrow, just another day
God bid yesterday good-bye

Bring on the night
I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight

The future is but a question mark
Hangs above my head, there in the dark
Can't see for the brightness is staring me blind
God bid yesterday good-bye

Bring on the night
I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight

I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight


Message In A Bottle

Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh
Another lonely day, with no one here but me, oh
More loneliness than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair, oh

I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. 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, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

A year has passed since I wrote my note
But 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 S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. 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, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

Walked out this morning, don't believe what I saw
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone at being alone
Hundred billion castaways, looking for a home
I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. 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, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S...


The Bed's Too Big Without You

Bed's too big without you
Cold wind blows right through my open door
I can't sleep with your memory
Dreaming dreams of what used to be
When she left I was cold inside
That look on my face was just pride
No regrets, no love, no tears
Living on my own was the least of my fears

Bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you

Since that day when you'd gone
Just had to carry on
I get through the day, but late at night
Made love to my pillow, but it didn't feel right

Every day just the same
Old rules for the same old game
All I gained was heartache
All I made was one mistake
Now the bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you


Peanuts

Written by Sting & Stewart Copeland

It's all a game
You're not the same
Your famous name
The price of fame

Oh no, try to liberate me
I said oh no, stay and irritate me
I said oh no, try to elevate me
I said oh no, just a fallen hero

Don't wanna hear about the drugs you're taking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking

You sang your song
For much too long
There's something wrong
The [your] brain has gone

Oh no, try to liberate me
I said oh no, stay and irritate me
I said oh no, try to elevate me
I said oh no, just a fallen hero

Don't wanna hear about the drugs you're taking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking

It's all a game
You're not the same
Your famous name
The price of fame

Oh no, try to liberate me
I said oh no, stay and irritate me
I said oh no, try to elevate me
I said oh no, just a fallen hero
Oh, you're just a fallen hero

Don't wanna hear about the drugs you're taking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking

Don't wanna find out what you've been taking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking

Don't wanna find out what you've been taking
Don't wanna read about the love you're making
Don't wanna hear about the life you're faking
Don't wanna read about the muck they're raking

Peanuts, peanuts
Peanuts....


Roxanne

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light
Put on the red light, oh

I loved you since I knew ya
I wouldn't talk down to ya
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your make up
Told you once I won't tell you again it's a bad way

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
You don't have to put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light


Can't Stand Losing You

I've called you so many times today
And I guess it's all true what your girl-friends say
That you don't ever want to see me again
And your brother's gonna kill me and he's six feet ten
I guess you'd call it cowardice
But I'm not prepared to go on like this

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you

I see you sent my letters back
And my L.P. records and they're all scratched
I can't see the point in another day
When nobody listens to a word I say
You can call it lack of confidence
But to carry on living doesn't make no sense

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't stand losing you
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing

I guess this is our last goodbye
And you don't care, so I won't cry
But you'll be sorry when I'm dead
And all this guilt will be on your head
I guess you'd call it suicide
But I'm too full to swallow my pride
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't...


Landlord

Written by Sting & Stewart Copeland

I don't want to rent your house from you
I don't know how you can expect me to
I ain't moving 'cause I know my rights
Too many homeless on the streets at night

You own a street and a block of flats
You earn your living like the other rats
You've no morality what do you care
You deal in poverty you buy despair

I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some

You go and call yourself a business man
You're just a parasite on Phylosan
You're just a middle-class middle-aged shit
You sold your granny for a three-penny bit

You own a street and a block of flats
You earn your living like the other rats
You've no morality what do you care
You deal in poverty you buy despair

I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some

I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some

You go and call yourself a business man
You're just a parasite on Phylosan
You're just a middle-class middle-aged shit
You sold your granny for a three-penny bit

You own a street and a block of flats
You earn your living like the other rats
You've no morality what do you care
You deal in poverty you buy despair

I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some

I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some

I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving 'till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some


Born In The 50's

We were born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties

My mother cried
When president Kennedy died
She said it was the communists
But I knew better

Would they drop the bomb on us
While we made love on the beach
We were the class they couldn't teach
'Cause we knew better

We were born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties

They screamed
When the Beatles sang
And they laughed when the King fell down the stairs
Oh they should've known better
Oh we hated our Aunts
Then we messed in our pants
Then we lost our faith and prayed to the TV
Oh we should've known better

We were born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties

We freeze like statues on the pages of history
Living was never like this when we took all those G.C.E.'s
Oh, you opened the door for us
And then you turned to dust
You don't understand us
So don't reprimand us
We're taking the future
We don't need no teacher

Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties


Be My Girl, Sally

Written by Sting & Andy Summers

Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl

Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl

Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl

Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, Be my girl

I was blue and lonely, I couldn't sleep a wink
And I could only get unconscious if I'd had to much to drink
There was somehow, something wrong somewhere
And each day seemed grey and dead
The seeds of desperation were growing in my head
I needed inspiration, a brand new start in life
Somewhere to place affection, but I didn't want a wife
And then by lucky chance I saw in a special magazine
An ad that was unusual, the like I'd never seen
"Experience something different with our new imported toy
She's loving, warm, inflatible and a guarantee of joy."
She came all wrapped in cardboard, all pink and shrivelled down
A breath of air was all she needed to make her lose that frown
I took her to the bedroom and pumped her with some life
And later in a moment that girl became my wife
And so I sit her in the corner and sometimes stroke her hair
And when I'm feeling naughty I blow her up with air
She's cuddly and she's bouncy, she's like a rubber ball
I bounce her in the kitchen and I bounce her in the hall
And now my life is different since Sally came my way
I wake up in the morning and have her on a tray
She's everything they say she was and I wear a permanent grin
And I only have to worry in case my girl wears thin

Won't you be my girl, won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl
Won't you be my girl, won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl
Won't you be my girl, won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my, be my girl


Synchronicity I

With one breath, with one flow
You will know
Synchronicity

A sleep trance, a dream dance
A shared romance
Synchronicity

A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Science insusceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectible
Yet nothing is invincible

If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi

If you act, as you think
The missing link
Synchronicity

We know you, they know me
Extrasensory
Synchronicity

A star fall, a phone call
It joins all
Synchronicity

It's so deep, it's so wide
Your inside
Synchronicity

Effect without a cause
Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause

Synchronicity......


Synchronicity II

Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like
cheap tarts in a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away
Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish lake

Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in the headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away
There's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake

Many miles away, many miles away


Walking In Your Footsteps

Fifty million years ago
You walked upon the planet so
Lord of all that you could see
Just a little bit like me

Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps

Hey Mr. Dinosaur
You really couldn't ask for more
You were God's favourite creature
But you didn't have a future

Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps

Hey mighty brontosaurus
Don't you have a message for us
You thought your rule would always last
There were no lessons in your past
You were built three storeys high
They say you would not hurt a fly
If we explode the atom bomb
Would they say that we were dumb?

Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps

Fifty million years ago
They walked upon the planet so
They live in a museum
It's the only place you'll see 'em

Walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps

They say the meek shall inherit the earth
They say the meek shall inherit the earth

Walking in your footsteps


Message In A Bottle

Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh
Another lonely day, with no one here but me, oh
More loneliness than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair, oh

I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. 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, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

A year has passed since I wrote my note
But 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 S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. 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, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

Walked out this morning, don't believe what I saw
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone at being alone
Hundred billion castaways, looking for a home
I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. 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, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S...


O My God

Everyone I know is lonely
And God's so far away
And my heart belongs to no one,
So now sometimes I pray
Please take the space between us
And fill it up some way
Take the space between us
And fill it up some way

O my God you take the biscuit
Treating me this way
Expecting me to treat you well
No matter what you say
How can I turn the other cheek
It's black and bruised and torn
I've been waiting
Since the day that I was born

Take the space between us
And fill it up some way
Take the space between us
And fill it up some way

The fat man in his garden
The thin man at his gate
My God you must be sleeping
Wake up it's much too late

Take the space between us
And fill it up some way
Take the space between us
And fill it up some way

Do I have to tell the story
Of a thousand rainy days
Since we first met?
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet


De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

Don't think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They're only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true

Poets, priests and poiticians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one's jamming their transmission
And when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true


Wrapped Around Your Finger

You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger

I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turned into a shining band of gold

I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger

Mephistopheles is not your name
But I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your tuition
And you will see it come to it's
fruition[6]

I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger

Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air, you'll never find me
I will turn your face to alabaster
Then you'll find your servant is your master

You'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger


Tea In The Sahara c#

My sisters and I
Have this wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession

We want our tea in the Sahara with you
We want our tea in the Sahara with you

The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
They would wait for him here
The same place every year
Beneath the sheltering sky
Across the desert he would fly

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

The sky turned to black
Would he ever come back?
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups full of sand

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you


Spirits In The Material World

There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The
subjugate[7] the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

Where does the answer lie?
Living from day to day
If it's something we can't buy
There must be another way

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world


King Of Pain

There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a little black spot on the sun today
That's my soul up there
It's the same old thing as yesterday
That's my soul up there
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
That's my soul up there
There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop
That's my soul up there

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall
That's my soul up there
There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall
That's my soul up there
There's a blue whale beached by a springtime's ebb
That's my soul up there
There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web
That's my soul up there

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out
There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt
There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed
There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread

King of pain

There's a red fox torn by a huntsman's pack
That's my soul up there
There's a black-winged gull with a broken back
That's my soul up there
There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday

I have stood here before in the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I always thought you could end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

King of pain
King of pain
King of pain
I'll always be king of pain


Don't Stand So Close To Me

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's 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 staff room
The accusations fly
It's no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the 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


Every Breath You Take

Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take
I'll be watching you

Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play, every night you stay
I'll be watching you

Oh, can't you see
You belong to me?
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take
Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake, every claim you stake
I'll be watching you

Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace
I dream at night, I can only see your face
I look around, but it's you I can't replace
I feel so cold, and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby please,

Oh, can't you see
You belong to me?
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take
Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake, every claim you stake
I'll be watching you
Every move you make, every step you take
I'll be watching you
I'll be watching you


Roxanne

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light
Put on the red light, oh

I loved you since I knew ya
I wouldn't talk down to ya
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your make up
Told you once I won't tell you again it's a bad way

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
You don't have to put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light


Can't Stand Losing You

I've called you so many times today
And I guess it's all true what your girl-friends say
That you don't ever want to see me again
And your brother's gonna kill me and he's six feet ten
I guess you'd call it cowardice
But I'm not prepared to go on like this

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you

I see you sent my letters back
And my L.P. records and they're all scratched
I can't see the point in another day
When nobody listens to a word I say
You can call it lack of confidence
But to carry on living doesn't make no sense

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't stand losing you
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing

I guess this is our last goodbye
And you don't care, so I won't cry
But you'll be sorry when I'm dead
And all this guilt will be on your head
I guess you'd call it suicide
But I'm too full to swallow my pride
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't...


So Lonely

Well, someone told me yesterday
That when you throw your love away
You act as if you don't care
You look as if you're going somewhere
But I just can't convince myself
I couldn't live with no one else
And I can only play that part
And sit and nurse my broken heart, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely

Now no-one's knocked upon my door
For a thousand years, or more
All made up and nowhere to go
Welcome to this one man show
Just take a seat, they're always free
No surprise, no mystery
In this theatre that I call my soul
I always play the starring role, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely

So lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, so lonely
I feel lonely, I'm so lonely, I feel so low
I feel lonely, I'm so lonely, I feel so low


Sting - Solo-Lyrics

The Dream Of The Blue Turtles 1985 (описание)

 

The Dream Of The Blue Turtles 1985

Тексты

If you love somebody set them free

Love is the seventh wave

Russians

Children's crusade

Shadows in the rain

We work the black seam

Consider me gone

The dream of the blue turtles (instrumental)

Moon over bourbon street

Fortress around your heart

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

If you need somebody, call my name
If you want someone, you can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
If you want to hold onto your possession
Don't even think about me

If you love somebody, set them free

If it's a mirror you want, just look into my eyes
Or a whipping boy, someone to despise
Or a prisoner in the dark
Tied up in chains you just can't see
Or a beast in a gilded cage
That's all some people ever want to be

If you love somebody, set them free

You can't control an independent heart
Can't tear the one you love apart
Forever conditioned to believe that we can't live
We can't live here and be happy with less
So many riches, so many souls
Everything we see we want to possess

If you need somebody, call my name
If you want someone, you can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
If you want to hold onto your possession
Don't even think about me

If you love somebody, set them free

Love Is the Seventh Wave

In the empire of the senses
You're the queen of all you survey
All the cities all the nations
Everything that falls your way
There is a deeper world than this
That you don't understand
There is a deeper world that this
Tugging at your hand

Every ripple on the ocean
Every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert
Every power we never see
There is a deeper wave than this
Swelling in the world
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl

Feel it rising in the cities
Feel it sweeping over land
Over borders, over frontiers
Nothing will its power withstand
There is no deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl

All the bloodshed all the anger
All the weapons all the greed
All the armies all the missiles
All the symbols of your fear
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl

At the still point of destruction
At the centre of the fury
All the angels all the devils
All around us can't you see
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this
Nothing will withstand

I say love is the seventh wave

Russians

In Europe and America,

there's a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats


In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mr. Krushchev said we will bury you
I don't subscribe to this point of view
It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russains love their children too

How can I save my little boy

from Oppenheimer's deadly toy
There is no monopoly of common sense
On either side of the political fence
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too

There is no historical precedent
To put words in the mouth of the president
There's no such thing as a winnable war
It's a lie we don't believe anymore
Mr. Reagan says we will protect you
I don't subscribe to this point of view
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too

We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
What might save us me and you
Is that the Russians love their children too

В Европе и Америке

Возрастают чувства истерии

Они зависят от реакции на опасность, которая нам грозит

 

В советских риторических речах

Раз сказал господин Хрущев: 'Мы вас похороним'.

Я же не могу с этим согласится

Это было бы слишком непонятно

Если русские также любят своих детей

 

Как я могу спасти своего маленького сына

от смертельной игрушки Оппенгеймера

Монополию разума нам не найти

Ни с одной ни с другой стороны политического барьера

Мы разделяем одну и туже биологию

Несмотря на какую-либо идеологию

Верь мне когда я говорю

Я надеюсь русские тоже любят своих детей

 

Нет никакого исторического примера

Позволяющего вложить слова в рот президента

Нет такого, как победная война

Это лож и мы уже этому не верим

Мистер Рейган говорит, что мы защетим вас

Я не могу с этим согласиться

Поверь мне, когда я скажу тебе

Я надеюсь русские тоже любят своих детей

 

Мы разделяем одну и туже биологию

Несмотря на какую-либо идеологию

Что может нас спасти, тебя и меня

Дак это то, что русские тоже любят своих детей

 

 

 

Children's Crusade

Young men, soldiers, nineteen fourteen
Marching through countries they'd never seen
Virgins with rifles, a game of charades
All for a children's crusade

Pawns in the game are not victims of chance
Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of these young lives betrayed

The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Corpulent generals safe behind lines
History's lessons drowned in red wine
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade

The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty four
Fixing in doorways, opium slaves
Poppies for young men, such bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade

Shadows in the Rain

Второй вариант не очень удачной песни из финале альбома Zenyatta Mondatta

 

Am

I woke up in my clothes again this morning
I don't know exactly where I am
And I should heed my doctor's warning
He does the best with me he can

He says I suffer from delusion
But I'm so confident I'm sane
It can't be an optical illusion
So how can you explain
Shadows in the rain

And if you see us on the corner
We're just dancing in the rain
I tell my friends there when I see them
Outside my window pane
Shadows in the rain

We Work the Black Seam

Am

This place has changed for good
Your economic theory said it would
It's hard for us to understand
We can't give up our jobs the way we should
Our blood has stained the coal
We tunneled deep inside the nations soul
We matter more than pounds and pence
Your economic theory makes no sense

F/C/Dm/Am

One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimey faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen

We work the black seam together

The seam is underground
Three million years of pressure packed it down
We walk through ancient forest lands
And light a thousand cities with our hands
Your dark satanic mills
Have made redundant all our mining skills
You can't exchange a six inch band
For all the poisoned steams in Cumberland

Chorus

We work the black seam together

Our conscious lives run deep
You cling onto your mountain while we sleep
This way of life is part of me
There is no price so only let me be
And should the children weep
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep
When you have sunk without a trace
The universe will suck me into place

Chorus

We work the black seam together

Consider Me Gone

C#m

There were rooms of forgiveness
In the house that we share
But the space has been emptied
Of whatever was there
There were cupboards of patience
There were shelfloads of care
But whoever came calling
Found nobody there
After today, consider me gone

Roses have thorns and shining waters mud
And cancer lurks deep in the sweetest bud
Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun
And history reeks of the wrongs we have done
After today, consider me gone

I've spent too many years at war with myself
The doctor has told me it's no good for my health
To search for perfection is all very well
But to look for heaven is to live here in hell

After today, consider me gone

9. Moon Over Bourbon Street

Interview With The Vampire

Интервью с Вампиром


Interview With The Vampireby Anne Rice

"...Moon Over Bourbon Street was inspired by a book that was just given to me, somebody just handed to me after a gig - I think it was in New Orleans. We were staying in the French quarter, and I started to read this book late one night. It was one of those books I read in one sitting, I was totally enchanted by this story. Not so much by the character Lestat who everybody seemed to like, but by the other character. The Louis character interested me far more, he seemed to be much more reflective and much more interesting in a way, and I wrote Moon Over Bourbon Street based on that one reading. The idea of being a vampire and being a predator, but regretting it all the time knowing that there was something morally wrong with your lusts and your hunger, and I love the struggle that is going on in that character's head. There was a kind of movement of people who thought that Lestat who became a rock star in resulting books was based on me. He wasn't the character I was interested in at all..." - Sting
-

 

Fm

 

There's a moon over bourbon street tonight
I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight
I've no choice but to follow that call
The bright lights, the people, and the moon and all
I pray everyday to be strong
For I know what I do must be wrong
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over bourbon street

It was many years ago that I became what I am
I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb
Now I can never show my face at noon
And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon
The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast
I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over bourbon street

She walks everyday through the streets of New Orleans
She's innocent and young from a family of means
I have stood many times outside her window at night
To struggle with my instinct in the pale moonlight
How could I be this way when I pray to god above
I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over bourbon street

Fortress Around Your Heart

Dm|G/ :

 

Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light
No flags of truce[8], no cries of pity
The siege guns had been pounding all through the night
It took a day to build the city
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the fields I'd known
I recognized the walls that I once laid
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines[9] I'd laid

And if I have built this fortress around your heart
Encircled[10] you in trenches[11] and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm[12]
And let me set the battlements[13] on fire

Then I went off to fight some battle
That I'd invented inside my head
Away so long for years and years
You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
While the armies all are sleeping
Beneath the tattered[14] flag we'd made
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid

And if I have built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

 

This prison has now become your home
A sentence you seem prepared to pay
It took a day to build the city
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the lands I'd known
I recognized the fields where I'd once played
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid

 

And if I have built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

 

[Стинг снова будет заниматься строительством в Soul Cage Island of Souls]

Bring On The Night - 1986

Bring On The Night has to be worth at least four of anyone's five stars. This was an awesome live band as anyone who saw them will tell you, and this release does the band's memory justice. The especially pleasing thing about the album is the lack of obvious crowd pleasing Police favourites - Roxanne, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Message In A Bottle etc, - with Sting instead relying on a mixture of his new material, Police medleys that show off the band's virtuosity, and on long overlooked songs such as Low Life and I Burn For You. Great music played with style and skill - you can't go wrong with Bring On The Night.

 All songs/lyrics by Sting except where stated.

Bring On The Night

The afternoon has gently passed me by
The evening spreads itself against the sky
Waiting for tomorrow, just another day
God bid yesterday good-bye

Bring on the night
I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight

The future is but a question mark
Hangs above my head, there in the dark
Can't see for the brightness is staring me blind
God bid yesterday good-bye

Bring on the night
I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight

I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight


When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around

Turn on my V.C.R., same one I've had for years
James Brown on the Tammy show,
Same tape I've had for years
I sit in my old car, same one I've had for years
Old battery's running down, it ran for years and years

Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears
Tell me, where would I go? I ain't been out in years
Turn on the stereo, it's played for years and years
An Otis Redding song, it's all I own

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

Plug in my M.C.I, to excercise my brain
Make records on my own, can't go out in the rain
Pick up the telephone, I've listened here for years
No one to talk to me, I've listened here for years

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When I feel lonely here, don't waste my time with tears
I run 'Deep Throat' again, it ran for years and years
Don't like the food I eat, the cans are running out
Same food for years and years, I hate the food I eat

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

When The World Is Running Down You Tabs

Make The Best Of What´s Still Around

from the album "Zenyatta Mondatta"
Transcription: ?

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Original music by: Sting
Performance by: The Police
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CHORDS:
 C9sus D9 sus Emin7(add11)
 333333 555555 777787
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C9sus  D9sus
/ / / / | / / / /
1. Turn on my VCR Same one I had for years
2. Turn on the radio The static hurts my ears
3. Plug in my MCI To exercise my brain
4. When I feel lonely here Don't waste my time with tears

Emin7(add11)
/ / / / | / / / /
James Brown on the TAMI show Same tape I've had for years
Tell me where I would go I Ain't been out for years
Make records on my own Can't go out in the rain
I run _DEEP_THROAT_ again it ran and ran for years

C9sus  D9sus
/ / / / | / / / /
I sit in my old car same one I've had for years
Turn on the stereo It's played for years and years
Pick up the telephone I've listened here for years
Don't like the food I eat the cans are running out

Emin7(add11)
/ / / / | / / / /
Old battery's running down It ran and ran for years
An Otis Redding song It's all I own (WHEN THE)
No one to talk to me I've listened here for years (WHEN THE)
Same food for years and years I hate the food I eat (WHEN THE)

CHORUS (Repeat)
C9sus  D9sus
/ / / / | / / / /
The World is running down you make

Emin7(add11)
/ / / / | / / / /
The best of whats still around---- when the

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Performance notes:
 Verse 1
 Verse 2
 Chorus
 Verse 3
 Chorus
 Verse (BASS INSTRUMENTAL)
 Verse (BASS INSTRUMENTAL)
 Verse 4
 Chorus
 Chorus
 Verse 1 (FADE OUT)
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--
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
G.K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)

 


Consider Me Gone

You can't stay there
You can't stay there
You can't stay there
You can't stay there

There were rooms of forgiveness
In the house that we share
But the space has been emptied
Of whatever was there
There were cupboards of patience
There were shelf-loads of care
But whoever came calling
Found nobody there
After today
After today
Consider me gone

You can't stay there
You can't stay there
You can't stay there
You can't stay there

Roses have thorns
Shining water's mud
And cancer lurks deep
In the sweetest bud
Clouds and eclipses
Stain the moon and the sun
And history reeks
Of the wrongs we have done
After today
After today
Consider me gone

I've spent too many years
At war with myself
The doctor has told me
It's no good for my health
To search for perfection
Is all very well
But to look for heaven
Is to live here in hell
After today
After today
After today
Consider me gone
Consider me gone
Consider me, consider me
Consider me gone, gone, gone, gone


Low Life

Fatal fascination for the seedy part of town
Walk down the street and your head spins round
Don't be seen alone without your friends at night
Take a gun or a knife to the low life

Don't have to be born into this society
Pay for love but the hate comes free
Bring enough money for the rest of your life
Don't bring your wife to the low life

Bringing us there to the degredation
Always keep your back to the wall
No rewards for your infatuation
Low life
No life at all

Yeah, low life, low life

In here to long to be afraid anymore
You can't reach the bed so you sleep on the floor
You get so stoned you think you could fly
But you won't get high on the low life

Low life, low life
Low life, low life
Low life, low life
Low life, low life


We Work The Black Seam

This place has changed for good
Your economic theory said it would
It's hard for us to understand
We can't give up our jobs the way we should
Our blood has stained the coal
We tunneled deep inside the nation's soul
We matter more than pounds and pence
Your economic theory makes no sense

One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together

The seam lies underground
Three million years of pressure packed it down
We walk through ancient forest lands
And light a thousand cities with our hands
Your dark satanic mills
Have made redundant all our mining skills
You can't exchange a six inch band
For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland
Your economic theory makes no sense

One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together

Should the children weep
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep
When you have sunk without a trace
The universe will suck me into place

One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together


Driven To Tears

How can you say that your not responsible?
What does it have to do with me?
What is my reaction?
What should it be?
Confronted by this latest atrocity
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears

Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat
My comfortable existence is reduced
To a shallow, meaningless party
Seems that when some innocents die
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Too many cam'ras and not enough food
'Cause this is what we've seen
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears

Protest is futile
Nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world?
Who knows what to do?
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears
Driven to tears


Dream Of The Blue Turtles

Instrumental


Demolition Man

Oh! Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition

Tied to the tracks and the train's fast coming
Strapped to the wing with the engine running
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man

Tied to a chair, and the bomb is ticking
This situation was not of your picking
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man

I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition

You come to me like a moth to the flame
It's love you need but I don't play that game
'Cause you could be my greatest fan
But I'm nobody's friend, I'm a demolition man

I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition

Tied to the tracks and the train's fast coming
Strapped to the wing with the engine running
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man

Tied to a chair, and the bomb is ticking
This situation was not of your picking
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man


One World (Not Three)

One world is enough, for all of us
One world is enough, for all of us

It's a subject we rarely mention
But when we do we have this little invention
By pretending they're a different world from me
I show my responsibility
One world is enough, for all of us
One world is enough, for all of us

The third world breathes our air tomorrow
We live on the time we borrow
In our world there's no time for sorrow
In their world there is no tomorrow
One world is enough, for all of us
One world is enough, for all of us

Lines are drawn upon the world
Before we get our flags unfurled
Whichever one we pick
It's just a self deluding trick
One world is enough, for all of us
One world is enough, for all of us

I don't want to bring a sour note
Remember this before you vote
We can all sink or we all float
'Cause we're all in the same big boat
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
One world is enough for all of us
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday


Love Is The Seventh Wave

In the empire of the senses
You're the queen of all you survey
All the cities, all the nation
Everything that falls your way, I say
There is a deeper world than this that you don't understand
There is a deeper world that this tugging at your hand

Every ripple on the ocean
Every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert
Every power we never see
There is a deeper wave than this, swelling in the world
There is a deeper wave than this, listen to me girl

Feel it rising in the cities
Feel it sweeping overland
Over borders, over frontiers
Nothing will its power withstand, I say
There is no deeper wave than this rising in the world
There is no deeper wave than this listen to me girl

All the bloodshed, all the anger
All the weapons, all the greed
All the armies, all the missiles
All the symbols of that fear, I say
There is a deeper wave than this rising in the world
There is a deeper wave than this, listen to me girl

At the still point of destruction
At the centre of the fury
All the angels, all the devils
All around us, can't you see?
There is a deeper wave than this rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this nothing will withstand

I say love is the seventh wave
I say love is the seventh wave
I say love is the seventh wave
I say love is the seventh wave
I say love is the seventh wave
I say love is the seventh wave
I say love

Every ripple on the ocean
Every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert
Every breath you take with me
Every breath you take, every move you make
Every cake you bake, every leg you break


Moon Over Bourbon Street

There's a moon over Bourbon Street tonight
I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight
I've no choice but to follow that call
The bright lights, the people, and the moon and all
I pray everyday to be strong
For I know what I do must be wrong
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over Bourbon Street

It was many years ago that I became what I am
I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb
Now I can never show my face at noon
And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon
The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast
I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over Bourbon Street

She walks everyday through the streets of New Orleans
She's innocent and young, from a family of means
I have stood many times outside her window at night
To struggle with my instinct in the pale moonlight
How could I be this way when I pray to God above?
I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over Bourbon Street


I Burn For You

Now that I have found you
In the coolth of your evening smile
The shade of your parasol
And your love flows through me
Though I drink at your pool
I burn for you, I burn for

You and I are lovers
When night time folds around our bed
In peace we sleep entwined
And your love flows through me
Though an ocean soothes my head
I burn for you, I burn for

Stars will fall from dark skies
As ancient rocks are turning
Quiet fills the room
And your love flows through me
Though I lie here so still
I burn for you, I burn for you

I burn...


Another Day

Every day that goes by
A new hungry baby starts to cry
Born astride a painful grave
Drowned in hunger's tidal wave
Pick a child that you can save
It'd be the only one

If Africa escapes starvation
Not only food but education
The desert grows with every minute
Trapping everybody in it
All the children look the same
They wonder why they came
But it's hard to tell the poison from the cure
It's harder still to know the reason why, why, why
The only thing I really know for sure
Is that another day, another day's gone by

Every day that goes by
A brand new missile points towards the sky
We're survivors of a game of chance
Beneath an arms race avalanche
If you survive this winter's cold
You'd be the only one

If we escape annihilation
Not only hope but education
The world is ruled by Bellophiles
Adding to their weapon piles
Imagine what your taxes buy
We hardly ever try
But it's hard to tell the poison from the cure
It's harder still to know the reason why, why, why
The only thing I really know for sure
Is that another day, another day's gone by, bye,bye

That this too solid flesh
Would melt and resolve into a dew
Suffocating lassitude
Drowning in my platitude
Trapped by insecurities
I'm not the only one
If I survive this dislocation
Have to use my education

Chief of inactivity
Wasted creativity
Distances our revolution
Silence is consent
But it's hard to tell the poison from the cure
It's harder still to know the reason why, why, why
The only thing I really know for sure
Is that another day, another day's gone by


Children's Crusade

Young men, soldiers, nineteen fourteen
Marching through countries they'd never seen
Virgins with rifles, a game of charades
All for a children's crusade

Pawns in the game are not victims of chance
Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed

The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Corpulent generals safe behind lines
History's lessons drowned in red wine
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade

The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty four
Fixing in doorways, opium slaves
Poppies for young men, such bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade


Been Down So Long

written by J B Lenoir/A Atkins

I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me
I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea

I will call her every day
Come stay home at night
No matter how hard I try to please her
She just don't treat me right
I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea

I bought her a fur coat for Christmas
And a diamond ring
She's got the nerve to tell me
Our love don't mean a thing
I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea

Down so long, down so long
I've been down so long
I've been down so long
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea

I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me
I've been down so long
Being down don't bother me
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea

Down so long, down so long
Down so long, down so long

I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue
I'm gonna take all my troubles
Drown 'em in the deep blue sea


 

Tea In The Sahara

My sisters and I
Have this wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession

We want our tea in the Sahara with you
We want our tea in the Sahara with you

The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
They would wait for him here
The same place every year
Beneath the sheltering sky
Across the desert he would fly

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

The sky turned to black
Would he ever come back?
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups full of sand

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

 

:Nothing like The Sun - 1987

  1. The lazarus heart
  2. Be still my beating heart
  3. Englishman in new york
  4. History will teach us nothing
  5. They dance alone (cueca solo)
  6. Fragile
  7. We'll be together
  8. Straight to my heart
  9. Rock steady
  10. Sister moon
  11. Little wing
  12. The secret marriage

1. The Lazarus Heart

He looked beneath his shirt today
There was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside
He turned around to face his mother
To show her the wound in his breast that burned like a brand
But the sword that cut him open
Was the sword in his mother's hand

Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart

Though the sword was his protection
The wound itself would give him power
The power to remake himself
at the time of his darkest hour
She said the wound would give him courage and pain
The kind of pain that you can't hide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside

Every day another miracle
Only death will keep us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart

Birds on the roof of my mother's house
I've no stones that chase them away
Birds on the roof of my mother's house
Will sit on my roof someday
They fly at the window, they fly at the door
Where does she get the strength to fight them anymore
She counts all her children as a shield against the rain
Lifts her eyes to the sky like a flower to the rain

Every day another miracle
Only death will keep us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart

2. Be Still My Beating Heart

Be still my beating heart
It would be better to be cool
It's not time to be open just yet
A lesson once learned is so hard to forget
Be still my beating heart
Or I'll be taken for a fool
It's not healthy to run at this pace
The blood runs so red to my face
I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughts that plague me so

I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart

Be still my beating heart
You must learn to stand your ground
It's not healthy to run at this pace
The blood runs so red to my face
I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughts that plague me so
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart

Never to be wrong
Never to make promises that break
It's like singing in the wind
Or writing on the surface of a lake
And I wriggle like a fish caught on dry land
Struggle to avoid any help at hand

I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart

3. Englishman In New York

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on the side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York

See me walking down Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere I walk
I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

If "manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run

If "manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

4. History Will Teach Us Nothing

If we seek solace[15] in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast[16]
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast

If God is dead and an actor plays his part
His words of fear will find a place in ? your heart
Without the voice of reason every faith is its own curse
Without freedom from the past things can only get worse

Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later


History will teach us nothing
History will teach us nothing

Our written history is a catalogue of crime
The sordid[17] and the powerful, the architects of time
The mother of invention, the oppression[18] of the mild[19]
The constant fear of scarcity[20], aggression as its child

Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later

Convince[21] an enemy, convince him that he's wrong
Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long
A simple act of faith
In reason over might
To blow up [22]his children will only prove him right

History will teach us nothing
Sooner or later just like the world first day
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
Sooner or later just like the world first day
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

History will teach us nothing
History will teach us nothing

Know your human rights
Be what you come here for
Know your human rights
Be what you come here for
Know your human rights
Be what you come here for
Know your human rights
Be what you come here for

5. They Dance Alone (Gueca Solo)

Why are these women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed
[23] like stone?
I can't see what it is they despise
[24]
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish
[25] is unsaid[26]
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

It's the only form of protest they're allowed
I've seen their silent faces scream so loud
If they were to speak these words
they'd go missing too
Another woman on the torture table
what else can they do
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance

Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia
Danzan con sus padres
Danzan con sus hijos
Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas

Hey Mr. Pinochet
You've sown
[27] a bitter crop[28]
It's foreign money that supports you
One day the money's going to stop
No wages
[29] for your torturers
No budget for your guns
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin' with her invisible son
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

 

One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance

6. Fragile

If blood will flow[30] when flesh[31] and steel[32] are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains[33] away
But something in our minds will always stay

Perhaps this final act was meant
[34]
To clinch
[35] a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence
and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are

7. We'll Be Together

I see me with you and all the things you do
Keep turning round and round in my mind
Forget the weather we should always be together
And any other thought is unkind

To have you with me I would swim the seven seas
To have you as my guide and my light
My love is a flame that burns in your name
We'll be together We'll be together tonight

We'll be together, yeah
We'll be together, yeah
We'll be together, yeah

I see you with me and all I want to be
Is dancing here with you in my arms
Forget the weather we should always be together
I'll always be a slave to your charms

To have you with me I would swim the seven seas
To have you as the guide in my life
My love is a flame that burns in your name
We'll be together We'll be together

We'll be together, yeah
We'll be together, yeah
We'll be together, yeah

Call me baby. You can call me anything you want
Call me baby Call me Just call me
We'll be together, yeah
We'll be together, yeah

I see you with me and baby makes three
I see me with you and all the things we do
Forget the weather we should always be together
I need you as my guide and my light
My love is the flame that burns in your name
We'll be together We'll be together tonight

8. Straight To My Heart

Well in a hundred years from now
They will attempt to tell us how
A scientific means to bliss
Will supercede the human kiss

A sub atomic chain
Will maybe galvanize the brain
A biochemic trance
Will eliminate romance

But why ever should we care
When there are arrows in the air
Formed by lovers' ancient art
That go straight to my heart

A future sugar coated pill
Would give our lovers time to kill
I think they're working far too much
For the redundancy of touch

But what will make me yours
Are a million deadly spores
Formed by lovers' ancient art
That go straight to my heart

Come into my door
Be the light of my life
Come into my door

You'll never have to sweep the floor
Come into my door
Be the light of my life
Come into my door
Come and be my wife
I'll be true. To no one but you

If it's a future world we fear
We have tomorrow's seeds right here
For you can hold them in your hand
Or let them fall into the sand

But if our love is pure
The only thing of which we're sure
Then you can play your part
And go straight to my heart

If I should seek immunity
And love you with impunity
Then the only thing to do
Is for me to pledge myself to you

But they only dealt one card
So for me it is not hard
You're the bright star in my chart
You go straight to my heart

Come into my door
Be the light of my life
Come into my door
You'll never have to sweep the floor
Come into my door
Be the light of my life
Come into my door
Come and be my wife
I'll be true. To no one but you

9. Rock Steady

Saw an ad in the newspaper that caught my eye
I said to my baby this sounds like the ticket
for you and I
It said volunteers wanted for a very special trip
To commune with Mother Nature on a
big wooden ship
We took a taxi to the river in case any
places were free
There was an old guy with a beard
And every kind of creature as far as
the eye could see

This old guy was the boss, he said,
"I won't tell you no lie
But there's more to this journey
than is apparent to the eye"
He said he'd heard God's message on the radio
It was going to rain forever and he'd told him to go
"I'll protect you all don't worry I'll be father to you all
I'll save two of every animal, no matter how small
But I'll need some assistants to look after the zoo
I can't see nobody better so you'll just have to do"
I said, "Just tell me something before it's too late
and we're gone
I mean just how safe is this boat we'll be on?"

"It's Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady"

It rained for forty days and forty long nights
I'd never seen rain like it and it looked
like our old friend
Was being proved right
We had no time to worry though there was just
too much to do
Between the signified monkey and the kangaroo
We had to wash all the animals we had to
feed them too
We were merely human slaves in a big floating zoo
She said, "Hey baby I don't mean to be flip
But it seems this old man is on some power trip"
I said, "No, no sugar you must be wrong
I mean look at the size of this boat we're on.
We're as safe as houses, as safe as mother's milk
He's as cool as November and as
smooth as China silk
He's God's best friend, he's got a seat on the board
And life may be tough but we're
sailing with the lord."

Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady

Woke up this morning and something had changed
Like a room in my house had just been rearranged
She said, "It's stopped raining and
I know the guy's kind
But if we stay here much longer
I'm gonna lose my mind."
So we said we had a mission for his favorite dove
To see if there was any mercy
from this great God above
So to find dry land, away the white bird flew
We didn't need no country just a rock would do
When the dove came back to us
he threw down a twig
It was manna from heaven and meant we could
blow this gig
"But the rock's too small," he said, "can't you see?"
I said, "It's just perfect for her, it's perfect for me."

Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady
Rock steady Rock steady

10. Sister Moon

Sister moon will be my guide
In your blue blue shadows I would hide
All good people asleep tonight
I'm all by myself in your silver light
I would gaze at your face the whole night through
I'd go out of my mind, but for you

Lying in a mother's arms
The primal root of a woman's charms
I'm a stranger to the sun
My eyes are too weak
How cold is a heart
When it's warmth that he seeks?
You watch every night, you don't care what I do
I'd go out of my mind, but for you
I'd go out of my mind, but for you

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
My hunger for her explains everything I've done
To howl at the moon the whole night through
And they really don't care if I do
I'd go out of my mind, but for you

Sister Moon

11. Little Wing

Well, she's walking through the clouds
with a circus mind
that's running wild.
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
and fairy tales,

That's all she ever thinks about...

Riding the wind.

When I'm sad she comes to me
with a thousand smiles
she gives to me free

It's alright, she says,
it's alright,
Take anything you want from me,
anything,

Fly on, little wing

12. The Secret Marriage

No earthly church has ever blessed our union
No state has ever granted us permission
No family bond has ever made us two
No company has ever earned commission

No debt was ever paid no dowry to be granted
No treaty over border land or power
No semblance of the world outside remained
To stain the beauty of this nuptial hour

The secret marriage vow is never spoken
The secret marriage can never be broken

No flowers on the alter
No whit veil in your hair
No maiden dress to alter
No bible oath to swear

The secret marriage vow is never spoken
The secret marriage can never be broken

Nada Como El Sol - 1988

 

...Nada Como El Sol

Mariposa Libre

Yo la veo caminar
Por las nubes va
Donde andara
Mariposa Libre que suena
Que quiere ser
Y no piensa en nada mas
Solo en vivir

Si estoy triste viene a mi
Mil sonrisas trae
Las da porque si
Y me dice esta bien, todo bien
Estoy aqui y soy de ti,
Soy de ti

Fragil

E amanha a chuva levara
O sangue que a luta deixou derramar
Na pele a dor do aco tao cruel
Jamais a nossa voz vai calar

Um ato assim pode acabar
Com uma vida e nada mais
Porque nem nessmo a violencia
Destroi ideais
Tem gente que nao sente que a mundo assim
Ficara fragil demais

Choro eu e voce
E o mundo tambem, e o mundo tambem
Choro eu e voce
Que fragilidade, que fragilidade

Si Estamos Juntos

Me veo aqui alli siempre junto a ti
En todo lo que pienso tu estas
Que importa el tiempo si los dos estamos juntos
Si contigo puedo sonar

Acercate a mi y en mis suenos dime si
Y pide lo que quieras de mi
Mi amor es asi un fuego por ti
Si estamos juntos, y si me dices que si...

Si estamos juntos
Si estamos juntos

Te veo aqui alli siempre junto a mi
Bailando y besandome estas
Que importa el tiempo si los dos estamos juntos
Si contigo puedo sonar

Acercate a mi y en mi sueno dime si
Y pide lo que quieras de mi
Mi amor es asi un fuego por ti
Si estamos juntos, y si me dices que si

Si estamos juntos
Si estamos juntos
Si estamos juntos

Dime nena, dime lo que quieres de mi
Dime nena, dime, dime ...

Te veo a ti a mi tal vez seremos tres
Me veo aqui alli siempre junto a ti
Que importa el tiempo si los dos estamos juntos
Si contigo puedo sonar
Mi amor es asi un fuego por ti
Si estamos juntos, y si me dices que si

Si estamos juntos
Si estamos juntos

Ellas Danzan Solas (Cueca Solo)

Por que estan aqui, danzando solas?
Por que hay tristeza en sus miradas?
Hay soldados tambien
Ignoran su dolor
Porque desprecian el amor

Danzan con los muertos
Los que ya no estan
Amores invisibles
No dejan de danzar
Danzan con sus padres
Sus ninos tambien
Y con sus esposos
En soledad, en soledad

Yo las vi, en silencio gritar
No hay otra manera de protestar
Si dijeran algo mas
Solo un poco mas
Otra mujer seria torturada
Con seguridad

Danzan con los muertos
Los que ya no estan
Amores invisibles
No dejan de danzar
Danzan con sus padres
Sus ninos tambien
Y con sus esposos
En soledad, en soledad

Un dia danzaremos
Sobre sus tumbas, libres
Un dia cantaremos
Al danzar
Un dia danzaremos
Sobre sus tumbas, libres
Un dia cantaremos
Al danzar

Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Danzan con los muertos
Danzan con amores invisibles
Con silenciosa angustia
Danzan con sus padres
Con sus hijos
Con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas

Hey Mr. Pinochet
Su siembra huele mal
Y ese dinero que recibe
Pronto se terminara
No podra comprar mas armas
Ni a sus verdugos pagar
Imagine a su madre
Danzando siempre en soledad

Danzan con los muertos
Los que ya no estan
Amores invisibles
No dejan de danzar
Danzan con sus padres
Sus ninos tambien
Y con sus esposos
En soledad, en soledad

Un dia danzaremos
Sobre sus tumbas, libres
Un dia cantaremos
Al danzar
Un dia danzaremos
Sobre sus tumbas, libres
Un dia cantaremos
Al danzar
Al danzar...

Fragilidad

Manana ya la sangre no estara
Al caer la lluvia se la llevara
Acero y piel combinacion tan cruel
Pero algo en nuestras mentes quedara

Un acto asi terminara
Con una vida y nada mas
Nada se logra con violencia
Ni se lograra
Aquellos que han nacido en un mundo asi
No olviden su fragilidad

Lloras tu y lloro yo
Y el cielo tambien, y el cielo tambien
Lloras tu y lloro yo
Que fragilidad, que fragilidad
 

The Soul Cages - 1991 - Lyrics

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"It's afflicted me every time I've tried to write something, but never to the extent where I haven't written anything for three years. Not even a couplet, not an idea. Obviously, if you make your living writing, as you know, and you can't write anything it's over. It's very frightening. Hence you have to really start working out why, and I think once you discover why you're not writing, that's the key to finding out how you ran write. I think it really goes back what I did at the end of the last record, which was done over three years ago. I immediately went to work and did a mammoth tour. At the same time, I was just getting over the death of my mother and my father died about six months later. I figured the modern way to cope with death is to ignore it, just work through it. It's the modern thing to do - you go to work. Really, I think it's fear. You're scared to actually deal with the enormity of what's happened and you try and pretend it hasn't happened. So I did that, I worked my butt off, and I got to the end of the tour, and I went off on some rain-forest project, and I didn't stop. I didn't want to think about it. Then, having done all that, I said: 'Well, I have to make a living here, I have to make a new record. What will I write about?' Nothing. There was nothing. I was punished, in a way, because I didn't actually go through the mourning process."

Rolling Stone, 2/91On the Soul Cages...

Island Of Souls

Billy was born within sight of the shipyard[36]
First son of a riveter's[37] son
And Billy was raised as the ship grew a shadow
Her great hull[38] would blot out [39]the light of the sun

And six days a week he would watch his poor father
A working man live like a slave
He'd drink every night and he'd dream of a future,
Of money he never would save
And Billy would cry when he thought of the future

Soon came a day when the bottle was broken
They launched a great ship out to sea
He felt he'd been left on a desolate[40] shore
To a future he desperately wanted to flee[41]
What else was there for a riveter's son
A new ship to be built, new work to be done

One day he dreamed of the ship in the world
It would carry his father and he
To a place they would never be found
To a place far away from this town.

Trapped[42] in the cage of the skeleton ship
All the workmen suspended[43] like flies
Caught in the flare[44] of acetylene light[45]
A working man works till the industry dies
And Billy would cry when he thought of the future

Then what they call an industrial accident
Crushed those it couldn't forgive
They brought Billy's father back home in an ambulance
A brass watch, a cheque, maybe three weeks to live,
And what else was there for a riveter's son
A new ship to be built, new work to be done

That night, he dreamed of the ship in the world
It would carry his father and he
To a place they could never be found
To a place far away from this town,
A Newcastle ship without coals
They would sail to the island of souls.

All This Time

I looked out across
The river today,
I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
Where the seagulls play.
I saw the sad shire horses walking home
In the sodium light
I saw two priests on the ferry
October geese on a cold winter's night

And all this time, the river flowed
Endlessly to the sea.

Two priests came round our house tonight
One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying
To serve the final rite,
One to learn, one to teach,
Which way the cold wind blows
Fussing and flapping in priestly black
Like a murder of crows

And all this time, the river flowed
Endlessly to the sea
If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
And I'd bury the old man,
I'd bury him at sea

Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth
Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of a needle
And as these words were spoken I swear I hear
The old man laughing,
'What good is a used up world, and how could it be
worth having'

And all this time the river flowed
Endlessly like a silent tear
And all this time the river flowed
Father, if Jesus exists,
Then how come he never lived here.

The teacher told us, the Romans built this place
They built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire
Garrison town,
They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods
But the stone gods did not make a sound
And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found

And all this time the river flowed
In the falling light of a northern sun
If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
Men go crazy in congregations
But they only get better
One by one
One by one...

Mad About You

A stone's throw from Jerusalem
I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight
And through a million stars were shining
My heart was lost on a distant planet
That whirls around the April moon
Whirling in an arc of sadness
I'm lost without you I'm lost without you
Though all my kingdoms turn to sand
And fall into the sea
I'm mad about you
I'm mad about you

And from the dark secluded valleys
I heard the ancient songs of sadness
But every step I thought of you
Every footstep only you
And every star a grain of sand
The leavings of a dried up ocean
Tell me, how much longer?
How much longer?

They say a city in the desert lies
The vanity of an ancient king
But the city lies in broken pieces
Where the wind howls and the vultures sing
These are the works of man
This is the sum of our ambition
It would make a prison of my life
If you became another's wife
With every prison blown to dust
My enemies walk free
I'm mad about you
I'm mad about you

And I have never in my life
Felt more alone than I do now
Although I claim dominions over all I see
It means nothing to me
There are no vitories
In all our histories, without love

A stone's throw from Jerusalem
I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight
And through a million stars were shining
My heart was lost on a distant planet
That whirls around the April moon
Whirling in an arc of sadness
I'm lost without you
I'm lost without you


And though you hold the keys to ruin
Of everything I see
With every prison blown to dust,
My enemies walk free
Though all my kingdoms turn to sand
And fall into the sea
I'm mad about you
I'm mad about you

Jeremiah Blues (Part I)

It was midnight, midnight at noon
Everyone talked in rhyme
Everyone saw the big clock ticking
Nobody knew, nobody knew the time

Elegant debutantes smiled
Everyone fought for dimes
Newspapers screamed for blood
It was the best of times

Every place around the world it seemed the same
Can't hear the rhythm for the drums
Everybody wants to look the other way
When something wicked this way comes

Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree
Sometimes I stare
Sometimes it's me

Everyone told the truth
All that we heard were lies
A pope claimed that he'd been wrong in the past
This was a big surprise

Everyone fell in love
A cardinal's wife was jailed
The government saved a dying planet
When popular icons failed

Every place around the world it seemed the same
Can't hear the rhythm for the drums
Everybody wants to look the other way
When something wicked this way comes


Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree
Sometimes I stare
Sometimes it's me
Sometimes I stare
Sometimes it's me

Why Should I Cry For You?

"You have this surface of easily listenable tunes overlaying[46] this complexity[47]. That's what I like to do. I like to write songs in very odd time signatures with tunes on top that you can whistle. I need to engage my own intellect and passion and make it interesting to me. Nursery rhymes[48] aren't interesting to me."
                           Associated Press, 11/99

 

 

Under the dog star sail
Over the reefs of moonshine
Under the skies of fall
North, north west, the stones of Faroe

Under the Arctic fire
Over the seas of silence
Hauling on frozen ropes
For all my days remaining
But would north be true?

All colours bleed to red
Asleep on the ocean's bed
Drifting in empty seas
For all my days remaining

But would north be true?
Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?


Dark angels follow me
Over a godless sea
Mountains of endless falling,
For all my days remaining,

What would be true?
Sometimes I see your face,
The stars seem to lose their place
Why must I think of you?
Why must I?
Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?
Why would you want me to?
And what would it mean to say,
That, "I loved you in my fashion"?

What would be true?
Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?

Saint Agnes and the Burning Train (Instrumental)

 

The Wild Wild Sea

I saw it again this evening
Black sail in a pale yellow sky
And just as before in a moment,
It was gone where the grey gulls fly.

If it happens again I shall worry
That only a strange ship could fly
And my sanity scans the horizon
In the light of the darkening sky.

That night as I walked in my slumber
I waded into the sea strand
And I swam with the moon and her lover
Until I lost sight of the land

I swam till the night became morning
Black sail in a reddening sky
Found myself on the deck of a rolling ship
So far where no grey gulls fly

All around me was silence
As if mocking my frail human hopes
And a question mark hung in the canvas
For the wind that had died in the ropes

I may have slept for an hour
I may have slept for a day
For I woke in a bed of white linen
And the sky was the colour of clay.

At first just a rustle of canvas
And the gentlest breath on my face
But a galloping line of white horses
Said that soon we were in for a race

The gentle sigh turned to a howling
And the grey sky she angered to black
And my anxious eyes searched the horizon
With the gathering sea at my back

Did I see the shade of a sailor
On the bridge through the wheelhouse pane
Held fast to the wheel of the rocking ship
As I squinted my eyes in the rain

For the ship had turned into the wind
Against the storm to brace
And underneath the sailor's hat
I saw my father's face

If a prayer today is spoken
Please offer it for me
When the bridge to heaven is broken
And you're lost on the wild wild sea
Lost on the wild wild sea...

The Soul Cages

The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard
There's a bloodless moon where the oceans die
A shoal of nightstars hang fire in the nets
And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie

Where is the fisherman, where is the goat?
Where is the keeper in his carrion coat?
Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies
Where is the child with his father's eyes?

These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages


He's the king of the ninth world
The twisted son of the fog bells toll
In each and every lobster cage
A tortured human soul

These are the souls of the broken factories
The subject slaves of the broken crown
The dead accounting of old guilty promises
These are the souls of the broken town
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages

'I have a wager' the brave child spoke
The fisherman laughed, though disturbed at the joke.
'You will drink what I drink but you must equal me
And if the drink leaves me standing,
A soul shall go free'

'I have here a cask of most magical wine
A vintage that blessed every ship in the line
It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died
Young white body adrift in the tide'

'And what's in it for me my pretty young thing?
Why should I whistle, when the caged bird sings?
If you lose a wager with the king of the sea
You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me'
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
A body lies open in the fisherman's yard
Like the side of a ship where the iceberg rips
One less soul in the soul cages
One last curse on the fisherman's lips

These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages

Swim to the light
Swim to the light

He dreamed of the ship on the sea
It would carry his father and he
To a place they could never be found
To a place far away from this town
A Newcastle ship without coals
They would sail to the island of souls

When the Angels Fall

So high above the world tonight
The angels watch us sleeping
And underneath a bridge of stars
We dream in safety's keeping
But perhaps the dream
Is dreaming us
Soaring with the seagulls
But perhaps the dream
Is dreaming us

Astride the backs of eagles

When the angels fall
Shadows on the wall
In the thunder's call
Something haunts us all
When the angels fall
When the angels fall

Take your father's cross
Gently from the wall
A shadow still remaining
See the churches fall
In mighty arcs of sound
And all that they're containing
Yet all the ragged[49] souls
Of all the ragged men
Looking for their lost homes
Shuffle to the ruins
From the levelled plain
To search among the tombstones

When the angels fall
Shadows on the wall
In the thunder's call
Something haunts us all

When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall

These are my feet
These are my hands
These are my children
And this is my demand
Bring down the angels
Cast them from my sight
I never want to see
A million suns at midnight

Your hands are empty
The streets are empty
You can't control us
You can't control us anymore

When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall

Fields Of Gold: The Best Of Sting 1984-1994

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When We Dance

E/Cm/E

If he loved you
Like I love you
I would walk away in shame
I'd move town, I'd change my name

When he watches you
When he comes to buy your soul
On your hand his golden rings
Like he owns a bird that sings

When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings

The priests have said my soul's salvation
Lies in the balance of the angels
And underneath the wheels of passion
I keep the faith in my fashion

When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings

I'm still in love with you

When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings

I'm gonna love you more than life
If you'll only be my wife
I'm gonna love you night and day
I'm gonna try in every way

When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings

I'm gonna find a place to live
Give you all I've got to give
I would love you more than life
If you'll only be my wife

If I could break down these walls
And shout my name at heaven's gate
I'd take these hands
And I'd destroy the dark machineries of fate
The vehicles are broken
Heaven's the one above
Hellfire's a promise away
I'd still be saying
I'm still in love

He won't love you
Like I love you
He won't care for you this way
He'll mistreat you if you stay

Come and live with me
We'll have children of our own
I would love you more than life
If you'd come and be my wife

When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings

I'm gonna love you more than life
If you'll only be my wife
I'm gonna love you night and day
I'm gonna try in every way

When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings

I'm gonna find a place to live
Give you all I've got to give
I would love you more than life
If you'd only be my wife

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

If you need somebody, call my name
If you want someone, you can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
If you want to hold onto your possession
Don't even think about me

If you love somebody, set them free

If it's a mirror you want, just look into my eyes
Or a whipping boy, someone to despise
Or a prisoner in the dark
Tied up in chains you just can't see
Or a beast in a gilded cage
That's all some people ever want to be

If you love somebody, set them free

You can't control an independent heart
Can't tear the one you love apart
Forever conditioned to believe that we can't live
We can't live here and be happy with less
So many riches, so many souls
Everything we see we want to possess

If you need somebody, call my name
If you want someone, you can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
If you want to hold onto your possession
Don't even think about me

If you love somebody, set them free

Fields of Gold

You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold

So she took her love
For to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold
Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold

See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold

I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold

Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold

All This Time

I looked out across
The river today,
I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
Where the seagulls play.
I saw the sad shire horses walking home
In the sodium light
I saw two priests on the ferry
October geese on a cold winter's night

And all this time, the river flowed
Endlessly to the sea.

Two priests came round our house tonight
One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying
To serve the final rite,
One to learn, one to teach,
Which way the cold wind blows
Fussing and flapping in priestly black
Like a murder of crows

And all this time, the river flowed
Endlessly to the sea
If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
And I'd bury the old man,
I'd bury him at sea

Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth
Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of a needle
And as these words were spoken I swear I hear
The old man laughing,
'What good is a used up world, and how could it be
worth having'

And all this time the river flowed
Endlessly like a silent tear
And all this time the river flowed
Father, if Jesus exists,
Then how come he never lived here.

The teacher told us, the Romans built this place
They built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire
Garrison town,
They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods
But the stone gods did not make a sound
And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found

And all this time the river flowed
In the falling light of a northern sun
If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
Men go crazy in congregations
But they only get better
One by one
One by one...

Englishman In New York

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on the side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York

See me walking down Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere I walk
I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

If "manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run

If "manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

Mad About You

A stone's throw from Jerusalem
I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight
And through a million stars were shining
My heart was lost on a distant planet
That whirls around the April moon
Whirling in an arc of sadness
I'm lost without you I'm lost without you
Though all my kingdoms turn to sand
And fall into the sea
I'm mad about you
I'm mad about you

And from the dark secluded valleys
I heard the ancient songs of sadness
But every step I thought of you
Every footstep only you
And every star a grain of sand
The leavings of a dried up ocean
Tell me, how much longer?
How much longer?

They say a city in the desert lies
The vanity of an ancient king
But the city lies in broken pieces
Where the wind howls and the vultures sing
These are the works of man
This is the sum of our ambition
It would make a prison of my life
If you became another's wife
With every prison blown to dust
My enemies walk free
I'm mad about you
I'm mad about you

And I have never in my life
Felt more alone than I do now
Although I claim dominions over all I see
It means nothing to me
There are no vitories
In all our histories, without love

A stone's throw from Jerusalem
I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight
And through a million stars were shining
My heart was lost on a distant planet
That whirls around the April moon
Whirling in an arc of sadness
I'm lost without you
I'm lost without you
And though you hold the keys to ruin
Of everything I see
With every prison blown to dust,
My enemies walk free
Though all my kingdoms turn to sand
And fall into the sea
I'm mad about you
I'm mad about you

It's Probably Me

If the night turned cold and the stars looked down
And you hug yourself on the cold cold ground
You wake the morning in a stranger's coat
No one would you see
You ask yourself, who'd watch for me
My only friend, who could it be
It's hard to say it
I hate to say it, but it's probably me

When you belly's empty and the hunger's so real
And you're too proud to beg and too dumb to steal
You search the city for your only friend
No one would you see
You ask yourself, who could it be
A solitary voice to speak out and set you free
I gate to say it
I gate to say it, but it's probably me

You're not the easiest person I ever got to know
And it's hard for us both to let our feelings show
Some would say I should let you go your way
You'll only make me cry
If there's one guy, just one guy
Who'd lay down his life for you and die
It's hard to say it
It's hard to say it, but it's probably me

When the world's gone crazy and it makes no sense
There's only one voice that comes to your defence
The jury's out and your eyes search the room
And one friendly face is all you need to see
If there's one guy, just one guy
Who'd lay down his life for you and die
It's hard to say it
I hate to say it, but it's probably me
I hate to say it
I hate to say it, but it's probably me

They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)

Why are these women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed like stone?
I can't see what it is they despise
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

It's the only form of protest they're allowed
I've seen their silent faces scream so loud
If they were to speak these words
they'd go missing too
Another woman on the torture table
what else can they do
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance

Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia
Danzan con sus padres
Danzan con sus hijos
Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas

Hey Mr. Pinochet
You've sown a bitter crop
It's foreign money that supports you
One day the money's going to stop
No wages for your torturers
No budget for your guns
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin' with her invisible son
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

"They Dance Alone"

Transcribed by Fernando Duran Soto

 

 

Intro: A Bm A Bm A Bm A Bm Asus
 
A C#m F#m
Why are these women here dancing on their own?
B  A E
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
A C#m
Why are the soldiers here
F#m
Their faces fixed like stone?
B  Esus
I can't see what it is that they despise.
 
F#m A
They're dancing with the missing
F#m A
They're dancing with the dead
F#m A
They dance with the invisible ones
F#m A
Their anguish is unsaid.
 
G D
They're dancing with their fathers
G D
They're dancing with their sons
E Dm6
They're dancing with their husbands
E Dm6 E A Bm A Bm A Bm A Asus
They dance alone, they dance alone.
 
 A C#m F#m
It's the only form of protest they're allowed
B  A E
I've seen their silent faces they scream so loud
A C#m F#m
If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too
B  Esus
Another woman on the torture table what else can they do.
 
F#m A
They're dancing with the missing
F#m A
They're dancing with the dead
F#m A
They dance with the invisible ones
F#m A
Their anguish is unsaid.
 
G D
They're dancing with their fathers
G D
They're dancing with their sons
E Dm6
They're dancing with their husbands
E Dm6 E
They dance alone, they dance alone.
 
A D
One day we'll dance on their graves
Bm F#m A
One day we'll sing our freedom
 D Bm
One day we'll laugh in our joy
 F#m
And we'll dance.
 
A D
One day we'll dance on their graves
Bm F#m A
One day we'll sing our freedom
 D Bm
One day we'll laugh in our joy
 F#m
And we'll dance.
 
A
Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos, ellas danzan con los muertos,
  F#m
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
A
con silenciosa angustia
Bm A
Danzan con sus padres
 Bm
con sus hijos
A
con sus esposos
Bm A
Ellas danzan solas
Asus
Danzan solas
 
A C#m
Hey Mr. Pinochet
F#m
You've sown a bitter crop
B
It's foreign money that supports you
A E
One day the money's going to stop
A C#m
No wages for your torturers
F#m
No budget for your guns
 B
Can you think of your own mother
Esus E
Dancin' with her invisible son.
 
F#m A
They're dancing with the missing
F#m A
They're dancing with the dead
F#m A
They dance with the invisible ones
F#m A
Their anguish is unsaid.
 
G D
They're dancing with their fathers
G D
They're dancing with their sons
E Dm6
They're dancing with their husbands
E Dm6 E
They dance alone, they dance alone.
 
A D
One day we'll dance on their graves
Bm F#m A
One day we'll sing our freedom
 D Bm
One day we'll laugh in our joy
 F#m
And we'll dance.
 
A D
One day we'll dance on their graves
Bm F#m A
One day we'll sing our freedom
 D Bm
One day we'll laugh in our joy.
 
 F#m C#m D
And we'll dance
 Bm F#m
And we'll dance
 C#m D
And we'll dance
 Bm F#m
And we'll dance
 A D
And we'll dance
 Bm F#m
And we'll dance... (Repeat and fade)

They Dance Alone Guitar Tabs

Transcribed by Fernando Duran Soto, Bogota - Colombia feduso@hotmail.com

"They Dance Alone"

Transcribed by Luis Ferriera

 

 

 A Amaj7 F#m B
Why are these women here dancing on their own?
 B7 Esus4 E A
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
 Amaj7
Why are the soldiers here
 F#m B
Their faces fixed like stone?
 B7 Esus4 E F#m
I can't see what it is they despise
 A F#m
They're dancing with the missing
 A F#m
They're dancing with the dead
 A F#m
They dance with the invisible ones
 A G
Their anguish is unsaid
 D
They're dancing with their fathers
 G D
They're dancing with their sons
 E/G# Ddim7/nr E
They're dancing with their husbands
 Ddim7/nr E
They dance alone They dance alone
 
It's the only form of protest they're allowed
I've seen their silent faces scream so loud
If they were to speak these words
they'd go missing too
Another woman on the torture table
what else can they do
 
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone
 
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
 
Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
Ellas danzan con silenciosa angistia
Danzan con sus padres
Danzan con sus hijos
Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas
 
Hey Mr. Pinochet
You've sown a bitter crop
It's foreign money that supports you
One day the money's going to stop
No wages for your torturers
No budget for your guns
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin' with her invisible son
 
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone
 
{Now hit the guitar, and double that rhythm! Tough, hey? :) }
 
Chords used:
A : x02220
Amaj7 : x02120
F#m : 244222
B : x24442
B7 : x21202
Esus4 : 022200
E : 022100
G : 320003
D : xx0232
E/G# : 422100
Ddim7/nr: 023201

 

If I Ever Lose My Faith In You

You could say I lost my faith in science and progress
You could say I lost my belief in the holy Church
You could say I lost my sense of direction
You could say all of this and worse, but
If I ever lose my faith in you
There'd be nothing left for me to do

Some would say I was a lost man in a lost world
You could say I lost my faith in the people on TV
You could say I'd lost my belief in our politicians
Yhey all seemed like game show hosts to me
If I ever lose my faith in you
There'd be nothing left for me to do
I could be lost inside their lies without a trace
But every time I close my eyes I see your face

I never saw no miracle of science
That didn't go from a blessing to a curse
I never saw no military solution
That didn't always end up as something worse, but
Let me say this first
If I ever lose my faith in you
There'd be nothing left for me to do

Fragile

If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay

Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence
and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are

We'll Be Together

I see me with you and all the things you do
Keep turning round and round in my mind
Forget the weather we should always be together
And any other thought is unkind

To have you with me I would swim the seven seas
To have you as my guide and my light
My love is a flame that burns in your name
We'll be together We'll be together tonight

We'll be together, yeah
We'll be together, yeah
We'll be together, yeah

I see you with me and all I want to be
Is dancing here with you in my arms
Forget the weather we should always be together
I'll always be a slave to your charms

To have you with me I would swim the seven seas
To have you as the guide in my life
My love is a flame that burns in your name
We'll be together We'll be together

We'll be together, yeah
We'll be together, yeah
We'll be together, yeah

Call me baby. You can call me anything you want
Call me baby Call me Just call me
We'll be together, yeah
We'll be together, yeah

I see you with me and baby makes three
I see me with you and all the things we do
Forget the weather we should always be together
I need you as my guide and my light
My love is the flame that burns in your name
We'll be together We'll be together tonight

Moon Over Bourbon Street

There's a moon over bourbon street tonight
I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight
I've no choice but to follow that call
The bright lights, the people, and the moon and all
I pray everyday to be strong
For I know what I do must be wrong
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over bourbon street

It was many years ago that I became what I am
I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb
Now I can never show my face at noon
And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon
The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast
I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over bourbon street

She walks everyday through the streets of New Orleans
She's innocent and young from a family of means
I have stood many times outside her window at night
To struggle with my instinct in the pale moonlight
How could I be this way when I pray to god above
I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over bourbon street

Love Is the Seventh Wave

In the empire of the senses
You're the queen of all you survey
All the cities all the nations
Everything that falls your way
There is a deeper world than this
That you don't understand
There is a deeper world that this
Tugging at your hand

Every ripple on the ocean
Every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert
Every power we never see
There is a deeper wave than this
Swelling in the world
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl

Feel it rising in the cities
Feel it sweeping over land
Over borders, over frontiers
Nothing will its power withstand
There is no deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl

All the bloodshed all the anger
All the weapons all the greed
All the armies all the missiles
All the symbols of your fear
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl

At the still point of destruction
At the centre of the fury
All the angels all the devils
All around us can't you see
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this
Nothing will withstand

I say love is the seventh wave

Russians

In Europe and America, there's a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mr. Krushchev said we will bury you
I don't subscribe to this point of view
It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russains love their children too

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy
There is no monopoly of common sense
On either side of the political fence
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too

There is no historical precedent
To put words in the mouth of the president
There's no such thing as a winnable war
It's a lie we don't believe anymore
Mr. Reagan says we will protect you
I don't subscribe to this point of view
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too

We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
What might save us me and you
Is that the Russians love their children too

Why Should I Cry For You?

Under the dog star sail
Over the reefs of moonshine
Under the skies of fall
North, north west, the stones of Faroe

Under the Arctic fire
Over the seas of silence
Hauling on frozen ropes
For all my days remaining
But would north be true?

All colours bleed to red
Asleep on the ocean's bed
Drifting in empty seas
For all my days remaining

But would north be true?
Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?
Dark angels follow me
Over a godless sea
Mountains of endless falling,
For all my days remaining,

What would be true?
Sometimes I see your face,
The stars seem to lose their place
Why must I think of you?
Why must I?
Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?
Why would you want me to?
And what would it mean to say,
That, "I loved you in my fashion"?

What would be true?
Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?

This Cowboy Song

We rode all night across an endless desert
We had no moon to light our way
And though a billion stars were slowly turning
We lacked the consciences to pray

Our horses running like devil chasers
Those feet they hardly touched the ground
Yes, I'm familiar with the grey wolves howing
But I'm certain I never heard this sound

Devil to pay On judgement day
Would Jesus strike me down
If I should pray this cowboy song

It's all I know
To bring me back into your arms
Your distant sun
Your shining light
You'll be my dark star shining
Tonight

I've been the lowest of the low on the planet
I've been a sinner all my days
And I was living with my hand on the trigger
I had no sense to change my ways

The priest asked if I'd embrace the ressurection
To suck the poison from my life
Just like an existential cowboy villain
His words were balanced on my knife

Devil to pay On judgement day
Would Jesus strike me down
If I should pray

This cowboy song
It's all I know
To bring me back into your arms
Your distant sun
Your shining light
You'll be my dark star shining
Tonight

Every night
Every night
All my distances afar

This cowboy song
It's all I know
To bring me back into your arms
This cowboy song
This cowboy life
I'll be your dark star shining
Tonight

Dark star...

Fragilidad

Maсana ya la sangre no estara
Al caer la llvia se la llevara
Acero y piel, combinacion tan cruel
Pero algo en nuestras mentes quedara

Un acto asi terminara
Con una vida y nada mas
Nada se logra con violencia
Ni se lograra
Aquellos que han nacido en un mundo asi
No olviden su fragilidad

Lloras tu y lloro yo
Y el cielo tambien, y el cielo tambien
Lloras tu y lloro yo
Que fragilidad, que fragilidad

Ten Summoner's Tales (1993)

 

  1. Prologue (If I Ever Lose My Faith In You)
  2. Love Is Sronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)
  3. Fields of Gold
  4. Heavy Cloud No Rain
  5. She's Too Good For Me
  6. Seven Days
  7. Saint Augustine In Hell
  8. It's Probably Me
  9. Everybody Laughed But You
  10. Shape Of My Heart
  11. Something The Boy Said
  12. Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)

1. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You

You could say I lost my faith in science and progress
You could say I lost my belief in the holy Church
You could say I lost my sense of direction
You could say all of this and worse, but
If I ever lose my faith in you
There'd be nothing left for me to do

Some would say I was a lost man in a lost world
You could say I lost my faith in the people on TV
You could say I'd lost my belief in our politicians
They all seemed like game show hosts to me
If I ever lose my faith in you
There'd be nothing left for me to do
I could be lost inside their lies without a trace
But every time I close my eyes I see your face

I never saw no miracle of science
That didn't go from a blessing to a curse
I never saw no military solution
That didn't always end up as something worse, but
Let me say this first
If I ever lose my faith in you
There'd be nothing left for me to do

2. Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)

This is a story of seven brothers
We had a the same father but different mothers
We keep together like a family should
Roaming the country for the common good
It came to pass one fateful day
We found ourselves down Mexico way
The town, the mayor, the PTA
Pleading on their knees with us all to stay
We'd only stopped for a few burritos
But they told us of the trouble with los banditos
A poor little town in need of aid
My brothers and me had never been afraid
The age of chivalry[50] is not dead
Lonesome nights in a cowboy bed
There'd be a bride for every man
Who chased away the evil gang

Love is stronger than justice
Love is thicker than blood
Love is stronger than justice
Love is a big fat river in flood

The outcome was predictable
Our banditos were despicable[51]
Of blood we lost a dozen litres
A small price to pay for las senoritas
The town mayor was happy but his face was glum[52]
The maidens[53] numbered only one
But there weren't seven brides for seven brothers
I knew I had to get rid of the others

Love is stronger than justice
Love is thicker than blood
Love is stronger than justice
Love is the big fat river in flood

Mother told me I was the clever one
The seventh son of a seventh son
It all ended so happily
I settled down with the family
I look forward to a better day
But ethical stuff never got in my way
And though there used to be brothers seven
The other six are singing in heaven

Love is stronger than justice
Love is thicker than blood
Love is stronger than justice
Love is a big fat river in flood

3. Fields of Gold

You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley[54]
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold

So she took her love
For to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold
Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold

See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold

I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold

Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold

4. Heavy Cloud No Rain

Turned on the weather man just after the news
I needed sweet rain to wash away my blues
He looked at the chart but he looked
in vain[55]
Heavy cloud but no rain

Back in the time with Louis XVI
At the court of the people he was number one
He'd be the bluest blood they'd ever seen
When the king said hi to the guillotine
The royal astrologer was run out of breath
He thought that maybe the rain would postpone his death
He look in the sky but he look in vain
Heavy cloud but no rain

Well the land was cracking and the river was dry
All the crops were dying when they ought to be high
So to save his farm from the banker's draft
The farmer took out a book on some old witchcraft
He made a spell and a potion on a midsummer's night
He killed a brindled calf in the pale moonlight
He prayed to the sky but he prayed in vain
Heavy cloud but no rain
Heavy cloud but no rain

The sun won't shine till the clouds are gone
The clouds won't go till their work is done
And every morning you'll hear me pray
If only it would rain today

I asked my baby if there'd be some way
She said she'd save her love for a rainy day
I look in the sky but I look in vain
Heavy cloud but no rain

5. She's Too Good For Me

Cm7

Am/Ab/G7

She don't like to hear me sing
She don't want no diamond ring
She don't want to drive my car
She won't let me go that far
She don't like the way I look
She don't like the things I cook
She don't like the way I play
She don't like the things I say

 Am7 Ab G7
But oh, the games we play
She's too good for me
She's too good for me

She don't like the jokes I make
She don't like the drugs I take
She don't like the friends I got
She don't like my friends a lot
She don't like the clothes I wear
She don't like the way I stare
She don't like the tales I tell
She don't like the way I smell
But oh, the games we play
She's too good for me
She's too good for me

Gm A7 Eb7 Dm D7
Would she prefer it if I washed myself more often than I do

Fm Gbmaj7 Gb6 Ebm F Bm
Would she prefer it if I took her to an opera or two

 F Ab6 Gm7
I could distort myself to be the perfect man

Gb6 F Bbm
She might prefer me as I am

Cm7
She don't want to meet my folks
She don't want to hear my jokes
She don't want to fix my tie
She don't even want to try
She don't like the books I read
She don't like the way I feed
She don't want to save my life
She don't want to be my wife

 Am7 Ab G7
But oh, the games we play
She's too good for me
She's too good for me

6. Seven Days

Cmaj7

"Seven days" was all she wrote
A kind of ultimatum note
She gave to me, she gave to me
When I thought the field had cleard
It seems another suit appeared
To challenge me,
woe [56]is me
Though I hate to make a choice
My options are decreasing mostly rapidly
Well we'll see
I don't think she'd bluff this time
I really have to make her mine
It's plain to see
It's him or me

Fmaj7 Fmaj7/F# G
Monday, I could wait till Tuesday
If I make up my mind
Wednesday would be fine, Thursday's on my mind
Friday'd give me time, Saturday could wait
But Sunday'd be too late

The fact he's over six feet ten
Might instill fear in other men
But not in me, The Mighty Flea (flee?)
Ask if I am mouse or man
The mirror squeaked, away I ran
He'll murder me in time for his tea
Does it bother me at all
My rival is Neanderthal it makes me think
Perhaps I need a drink
IQ is no problem here
We won't be playing scrabble for her hand I fear
I need that beer

Monday, I could wait till Tuesday
If I make up my mind
Wednesday would be fine, Thursday's on my mind
Friday'd give me time, Saturday could wait
But Sunday'd be too late

Seven days will quickly go
The fact remains, I love her so
Seven days, so many ways
But I can't run away

Monday, I could wait till Tuesday
If I make up my mind
Wednesday would be fine, Thursday's on my mind
Friday'd give me time, Saturday could wait
But Sunday'd be too late

Do I have to tell a story
Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet

7. Saint Augustine In Hell

If somebody up there likes me somebody up there cares
Deliver me from evil save me from these wicked snares
Not into temptation, not to cliffs of fall
On to revelation, and lesson for us all
She walked into the room on the arm of my best friend
I knew whatever happened our friendship would end
Chemical reaction, desire at first sight
Mystical attraction, turned out all my lights
The minute I saw her face, the second I caught her eye
The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die
I don't know if it's pain or pleasure that I seek
My flesh was all too willing, my spirit guide was weak
I was deadly certain his thoughts for me weren't kind
A switchblade in his pocket, murder on his mind
Blessed St. Theresa the whore of Babylon
Madonna and my mother all rolled into one

You've got to understand me, I'm not a piece of wood
Francis of Assisi could never be this good

The less I need the more I get
Make me
chaste[57] but not just yet
It's a promise or a lie I'll
repent[58] before I die
The minute I saw her face, the second I caught her eye
The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die
The minute I saw her face, the second I caught her eye
The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die

Relax, have a cigar, make yourself at home.
Hell is full of high court judges, failed saints.
We've got Cardinals, Archbishops, barristers,
certified accountants, music critics, they're all here.
You're not alone, you're never alone.
Not here you're not. Okay, break's over.


The less I need the more I get
Make me chaste but not just yet
It's a promise or a lie I'll repent before I die

The minute I saw her face, the second I caught her eye
The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die
The minute I saw her face, the second I caught her eye
The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die

8. It's Probably Me

If the night turned cold and the stars looked down
And you hug yourself on the cold cold ground
You wake the morning in a stranger's coat
No one would you see
You ask yourself, who'd watch for me
My only friend, who could it be
It's hard to say it
I hate to say it, but it's probably me

When you belly's empty and the hunger's so real
And you're too proud to beg and too dumb to steal
You search the city for your only friend
No one would you see
You ask yourself, who could it be
A
solitary[59] voice to speak out[60] and set you free
I
gate[61] to say it
I gate to say it, but it's probably me

You're not the easiest person I ever got to know
And it's hard for us both to let our feelings show
Some would say I should let you go your way
You'll only make me cry
If there's one guy, just one guy
Who'd lay down his life for you and die
It's hard to say it
It's hard to say it, but it's probably me

When the world's gone crazy and it makes no sense
There's only one voice that comes to your
defence[62]
The jury's out and your eyes search the room
And one friendly face is all you need to see
If there's one guy, just one guy
Who'd lay down his life for you and die
It's hard to say it
I hate to say it, but it's probably me
I hate to say it
I hate to say it, but it's probably me

9. Everybody Laughed But You

Cm

Everybody laughed when I told them
I wanted you I wanted you
Everybody
grinned[63] they humored me
They thought that someone had
spiked[64] my tea
Everybody screamed they told me you
Would cost the moon we'll be there soon
Everbody laughed till they were blue
They didn't believe my words were true
Everybody laughed but you
It's easy to lose touch with all the friends
You like so much or liked so much
Everybody laughed they couldn't take me seriously
Abandoned me
Sometimes I would read of things they'd done in magazines
They made the scene
Everybody left with such important things to do
But I'm not blue
Everybody left but you
Everybody left but you

Am
Many years have passed
And some have fallen by the way I heard them say
Everybody dreamed but those who fell
Are sleeping now, they're sleeping now
Everybody climbed like
ivy[65] to the top most branch
It was their chance
Everybody
grasped[66] till they were through
It's all they thought that they could do
Cause everybody fell
Everybody fell
Everybody fell but you

10. Shape Of My Heart

He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn't play for the money he wins
He doesn't play for respect
He deals the crads to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden loaw of a probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance

I know that the
spades[67] are swords of a soldier
I know that the
clubs[68] are weapons of war
I know that
diamonds[69] mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart

He may play the jack of diamonds
He may lay the queen of spades
He may
conceal[70] a king in his hand
While the memory of it fades

I know that the spades are swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart

And if I told you that I loved you
You'd maybe think there's something wrong
I'm not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one
Those who speak know nothing
And find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who fear are lost

I know that the spades are swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart

11. Something The Boy Said

When we set out on this journey
There were no doubts in our minds
We set our eyes to the distance
We would find what we would find
We took courage from our numbers
What we sought we did not fear
Sometimes we'd glimpse a shadow falling
The shadow would disappear
But our thoughts kept returning
To something the boy said
As we turned to go
He said you'll never see our faces again
You'll be food for a carrion crow

Every step we took today
Our thoughts would always stray
From the wind on the moor so wild
To the words of the captain's child
Something the boy said

In the circles we made with our fires
We talked of the pale afternoon
The clouds were like dark riders
Flying on the face of the moon
We spoke our fears to the captian
And asked what his son could know
For we would never have marched so far
To be food for a crow

Every step we took today
Our thoughts would always stray
From the wind on the moor so wild
To the words of the captain's child
Something the boy said

When I awoke this morning
The sun's eye was red as blood
The stench of burning corpses
Faces in the mud
Am I dead or am I living?
I'm too afraid to care, I'm too afraid to know
I'm too afraid to look behind me
At the feast of the crow
We spoke our fears to the captain
And asked what his son could know
For we would never have marched so far
To be food for a crow

12. Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)

Lay my head on the surgeon's table
Take my fingerprints if you are able
Pick my brains, pick my pockets
Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets
Run every kind of test from A to Z
And you'll still know nothing 'bout me

Run my name though your computer
Mention me in passing to your college tutor
Check my records, check my facts
Check if I paid my income tax
Pore over everything in my C.V.
But you'll still know nothing 'bout me
You'll still know nothing 'bout me

You don't need to read no books on my history
I'm a simple man, it's no big mystery
In the cold weather, a hand needs a glove
At times like this, a lonely man like me needs love

Search my house with a fine tooth comb
Turn over everything 'cause I won't be at home
Set up your microscope and tell me what you see
You'll still know nothing 'bout me

 

Mercury Falling -1996

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  1. The Hounds Of Winter !!!
  2. I Hung My Head !!!
  3. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (for his vih's friend)
  4. I Was Brought To My Senses
  5. You Still Touch Me
  6. I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying
  7. All Four Seasons
  8. La Belle Dame Sans Regret
  9. Valparaiso !
  10. Lithium Sunset
  11. Twenty Five To Midnight

1. The Hounds Of Winter

Mercury falling
I rise from my bed.
Collect my thoughts together
I have to hold my head
It seems that she's gone
and somehow I am pinned by
the hounds[71] of winter
howling in the wind

I walk through the day
my coat around my ears
I look for my companion
I have to dry my tears
it seems that she's gone
leaving me too soon
I'm as dark as december
I'm as cold as the man in the moon

I still see her face
as beautiful as day
it's easy to remember
remember my love that way
all I hear is that lonesome sound
the hounds of winter
they follow me down

I can't make up the fire
the way that she could
I spend all my days
in the search for dry wood
board all the windows and close the front door
I can't believe she won't here anymore

I still see her face
as beautiful as day
it's easy to remember
remember my love that way
all I hear is that lonesome sound
the hounds of winter
they follow me down

A season for joy
a season for sorrow
where she's gone
I will surely, surely follow
she brightened my day
she warmed the coldest night
the hounds of winter
they got me in their sights

I still see her face
as beautiful as day
it's easy to remember
remember my love that way
all I hear is that lonesome sound
the hounds of winter
they harry me down

2. I Hung My Head

[Если кто-нибудь помнит финал Булгаковского романа 'Мастер и Маргарита' - дак это об этом. О том как Понтий Пилат был прощен Христом и ему было позволно идти с ним рядом]

Early one morning
with time to kill
I borrowed Jeb's rifle
and sat on the hill
I saw a lone rider
crossing the plain
I drew a bead on him
to practice my aim
my brother's rifle
went off in my hand
a shot rang out
across the land
the horse he kept running
the rider was dead
I hung my head I hung my head

I set off running
to wake from the dream
my brother's rifle
went into the stream
I kept on running
into the salt landsand that's where they found me
My head in my hands
the sheriff he asked me
why had I run
then it came to me
just what I had done
and all for no reason
just one piece of lead
I hung my head I hung my head

Here in the courthouse
the whole town is there
I see the judge
high up in his chair
"Explain to the courtroom
what went through your mind
and we'll ask the jury
what verdict they find"
I said "I felt the power
of death over life
I orphaned his children
I widowed his wife
I beg their forgiveness
I wish I was dead"
I hung my head I hung my head

Early one morning
with time to kill
I see the gallows
up on the hill
and out in the distance
a trick of the brain
I see a lone rider
crossing the plain
he's come to fetch me
to see what they done
we'll ride together
til kingdom come
I pray for God's mercy
for soon I'll be dead
I hung my head I hung my head

3. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

 


The Tibetan Guide of Living and Dyingby Sogyal Rinpoche

"...Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot was largely inspired by a friend of mine who contracted the HIV positive virus and a couple of years later it became fully blown AIDS. The very first time he went to hospital I visited him and I was really at a loss to know what to bring him. I had just read a book by a buddhist monk called Sogyal Rinpoche called the "Tibetan Book Of Living and Dying" which is a sort of updated book version of the "Tibetan Book Of The Dead". I'd enjoyed this book very much, it had brought me a lot of solace. The premise of the book is that dying is a process that we all need to be training for in that we are all dying whether we have AIDS or not, and I thought that was a good book to give him. He loved the book and he got a great deal of pleasure from it..." - Sting


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B

Let your soul be your pilot
let your soul guide you

When you're down and they're counting
When your secrets all found out
When your troubles take to mounting
When the map you have leads you to doubt
When there's no information
and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well
Let your soul be your pilot
let your soul guide you
he'll guide you well

When the doctors failed to heal you
when no medicine chest can make you well
When no counsel leads to comfort
when there are no more lies they can tell
No more useless information
And the compass spins
the compass spins
between heaven and hell

Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
he'll guide you well

And your eyes turn towards the window pane
to the lights upon the hill
the distance seems so strange to you now
the dark room seems so still

Let your pain be my sorrow
let your tears be my tears too
let your courage be my model
that the north you find will be true
When there's no more useless information
And the compass turns to nowhere
that you know well

Let your soul be your pilot
let your soul guide you
let your soul guide you
let your soul guide you
upon your way

4. I Was Brought To My Senses

Alone with my thoughts this evening
I walked on the banks of Tyne
I wondered how I could win you
or if I could make you mine
or if I could make you mine

The wind it was so insistent
with tales of a stormy south
but when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree
there came a dryness in my mouth
came a dryness in my mouth

For then without rhyme or reason
the two birds did rise up to fly
and where the two birds were flying
I swear I saw you and I

I walked out this morning
it was like a veil had been removed from
before my eyes
for the first time I saw the work of heaven
in the line where the hill had been
married to the sky
and all around me every blade of singing grass
was calling out your name
and that our love would always last
and inside every turning leaf
is the pattern of an older tree
the shape of our future
the shape of all our history

and out of the confusion
where the river meets the sea
came things I'd never seen
things I'd never seen

I was brought to my senses
I was blind but now that I can see
every signpost in nature
said you belong to me

I know it's true
it's written in a sky as blue
as blue as your eyes, as blue as your eyes
if nature's red in tooth and claw
like winter's freeze and summer's thaw
the wounds she gave me
were the wounds that would heal me
and we'd be like the moon and sun
and when our courtly dance had run
its course across the sky
then together we would lie
and out of the confusion
where the river meets the sea
something new would arrive
something better would arrive

I was brought to my senses
I was blind but now that I can see
every signpost in nature
said you belong to me

5. You Still Touch Me

Another night finds me alone
in my dreams
you still touch me
your picture by my telephone
in that smile
you still thrill me

Now if I sleep, I sleep here alone
in my bed tonight
you still haunt[72] me
and if I'm falling
I'm falling like a stone
in my nightmares
you still hold me

And after all that we've been through
now I'm wondering
if you still blame me
if only half of this was true
that you believe of me
you still shame me

Dark rain will fall until I see your face
I close my eyes
I seem to hear the raindrops saying
you won't come back
you still touch me

And when I'm sick at heart and low
in my prayers
you still heal me
when I'm so sure this isn't so
in my complacency
you still shake me

I wonder if you feel the same way as I do
and you'd come back
you still touch me

Another night finds me alone
in my bed tonight
you still haunt me
you still hold me
you still touch me

6. I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying

Seven weeks have passed now since she left me,
she shows her face to ask me how I am
she says the kids are fine and that they miss me
Maybe I could come and baby-sit sometime
she says, "Are you O.K.? I was worried about you.
Can you forgive me? I hope that you'll be happy."
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm so happy I'm laughing through my tears

I saw a friend of mine. He said
"I was worried about you
I heard she had another man,
I wondered how you felt about it?"
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm so happy I'm laughing through my tears
Saw my lawyer, Mr. Good News
he got me joint custody and legal separation
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm laughing through my tears.
I'm laughing through my tears

I took a walk alone last night.
I looked up at the stars
to try and find an answer in my life
I chose a star for me. I chose a star for him
I chose two stars for my kids and one star for my wife
Something made me smile. Something seemed to ease the pain
Something about the universe and how it's all connected

The park is full of sunday fathers and melted ice cream
we try to do the best within the given time
A kid should be with his mother,
everybody knows that
what can a father do but baby-sit sometimes?
I saw that friend of mine, he said,
"You look different somehow."
I said, "Everybody's got to leave the darkness sometime."
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm laughing through my tears.
I'm laughing through my tears
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm laughing through my tears.
I'm laughing through my tears.

7. All Four Seasons

With her smile as sweet as a warm wind in summer
She's got me flying like a bird in a bright june sky
and then just when she thinks that I've got her number
Brings me down to the ground with her wintry eye
that's my baby
she can be all four seasons in one day

And when the nighttime comes with no interference
to our warm summer love with all its charms
but like a throroughbred horse she can turn on a sixpence
and I find that I'm back in mistress winter's arms
that's my baby
she can be all four seasons in one day

How will I know?
How can I tell?
Which side of the bed she takes when the day begins
She can be kind
she can be cruel
she's got me guessing like a game show fool

She can change her mind like she changes her sweaters
from one minute to the next it's hard to tell
she blows hot and cold just like stormy weather
she's my gift from the lord or a friend from hell
that's my baby
she can be all four seasons in one day

Watching the weatherman's been no good at all
winter, spring, summer, I'm bound for a fall
there are no long term predictions for my baby
she can be all four seasons in one day

How will I know?
How can I tell?
Which side of the bed she takes when the day begins
She can be kind
she can be cruel
she's got me guessing like a game show fool

If it's a sunny day I take my umbrella
just in case the raindrops start to fall
you could say that I'm just a cautious fellow
I don't want to be caught in a sudden squall
that's my baby
she can be all four seasons in one day
that's my baby
she can be all four seasons in one day

8. La Belle Dame Sans Regret

Dansons tu dis
Et moi, je suis
Mes pas sont gauches
Mes pieds tu fauches
Je crains les sots
Je cherche en vain les mots
Pour m'expliquer ta vie, alors
Tu mens, ma Soeur
Tu brises mon coeur
Je pense, tu sais
Erreurs, jamais
J'йcoute, tu parles
Je ne comprends pas bien
La Belle Dame sans Regrets

Je pleure, tu ris
Je chante, tu cries
Tu sиmes les graines
D'un mauvais chкne
Mon blй s'envole
Tu en as ras le bol
J'attends, toujours
Mes cris sont sourds
Tu brises mon coeur
Je pense, tu sais
Erreurs, jamais
J'йcoute, tu parles
Je ne comprends pas bien
La Belle Dame sans Regrets

9. Valparaiso

Chase the dog star over the sea
home where my true love is waiting for me
rope the south wind
canvas the stars
harness the moonlight
so she can safely go
round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso

Red the port light
starboard the green
how will she know of the devils I've seen
cross the sky, star of the sea
under the moonlight, there she can safely go
round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso

And every road I walked would take me
down to the sea
with every broken promise in my sack
and every love would always send the
ship of my heart
over the rolling sea

If I should die
and water's my grave
she'll never know if I'm damned or I'm saved
see the ghost fly over the sea
under the moonlight, there she can safely go
round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso

10. Lithium Sunset

Fill my eyes
O Lithium Sunset
and take this lonesome burden
of worry from my mind

Take this heartache
of obsidian darkness
and fold my darkness
inside your yellow light

I've been scattered I've been shattered
I've been knocked out of the race
but I'll get better
I feel your light upon my face

Heal my soul
O Lithium Sunset
and I'll ride the turning world
into another night.

See Mercury falling ...

11. Twenty Five To Midnight

Train I ride don't be slow
if your whistle can blow
fifteen miles down the track
tell them I'm coming back
counting poles counting sheep
don't be slow I won't weep
if your wheels on the line
were to put me on time

Just a year to the day
Since I went upon my way
to seek my fortune and fame
be a star, change my name
and that's it more or less
til this midnight express
I know I can't be late
cause she said she won't wait
she'll just go marry Jack
so there's no turning back
and it's 25 to midnight
and fifteen miles of track

Band I had got a break
just one chance we had to take
told my girl I'd be back
left her with my friend Jack
New York City for a spell
things didn't turn out so well
every dive that we played
we were lucky we got paid

Mr. Train driver please
if your speed you increase
every cent I have now
will be yours this I vow
and that's it more or less
til this midnight express
I know I can't be late
cause she said she won't wait
she'll just go marry Jack
so there's no turning back
and it's 25 to midnight
and fifteen miles of track

We called ourselves the Latino lovers
Hawaiian shirts and top forty covers
I didn't think I could sink this low
when drugs and booze ate all my dough
this isn't how it was meant to be
there's no such thing as a meal that's free
if I was ever to get out alive
I have to get home on time

Train I ride don't be slow
if your whistle can blow
fifty miles down the track
tell them I'm coming back
and that's it more or less
til this midnight express
I know I can't be late
cause she said she won't wait
she'll just go marry Jack
so there's no turning back
and it's 25 to midnight
and fifteen miles of track
and it's 25 to midnight
and fifteen miles of track

Brand New Day (1999)

 

 

  1. A Thousand Years 5:57 !!!
  2. Desert Rose 4:46
  3. Big Lie Small World 5:05 !!!
  4. After The Rain Has Fallen 5:04
  5. Perfect Love... Gone Wrong 5:25
  6. Tomorrow We'll See 4:47
  7. End Of The Game 6:35
  8. Fill Her Up 5:37
  9. Ghost Story 5:29
  10. Brand New Day 6:20

1. A Thousand Years

Music by Sting & Kipper, lyrics by Sting

A thousand years, a thousand more
A thousand times a million doors to eternity
I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times
An endless turning stairway climbs
To a tower of souls

If it takes another thousand years, a thousand wars,
The towers rise to numberless floors in space
I could shed another million tears, a million breaths,
A million names but only one truth to face

A million roads, a million fears
A million suns, ten million years of uncertainty
I could speak a million lies, a million songs,
A million rights, a million wrongs in this balance of time
But if there was a single truth, a single light
A single thought, a singular touch of grace
Then following this single point, this single flame,
This single haunted memory of your face

I still love you
I still want you
A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves
Like galaxies in my head

I may be numberless, I may be innocent
I may know many things, I may be ignorant
Or I could ride with kings and conquer many lands
Or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands
I could be cannon food, destroyed a thousand times
Reborn as fortune's child to judge another's crimes
Or wear this pilgrim's cloak, or be a common thief
I've kept this single faith, I have but one belief

I still love you
I still want you
A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves
Like galaxies in my head
On and on the mysteries unwind themselves
Eternities still unsaid
'Til you love me

2. Desert Rose

"I spent most of last year listening to Cheb Mami, the great Arabic singer, who has an incredible, swooping voice that just mesmerises. A friend introduced us, it was love at first sight, and, rather impetuously, as lovesick musicians often do, we jumped right into the studio together. I had a melody to a song called Desert Rose and asked him to improvise a bit; he created a lovely counterpoint, and everything took off from there. The amazing thing is, he didn't understand a word I was singing. But the lyric he improvised was almost the same as mine - it had to do with lost love and longing - which goes to show how the music suggested to us individually the exact same emotion. It cuts across all cultures, whether you're Arabic or Western European or Japanese or African. Music is the universal tongue."
Sky magazine, 12/99

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

I dream of fire
These dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire
And in the flames
Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire

This desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

And as she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realise that nothing's as it seems

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

I dream of rain
I lift my gaze to empty skies above
I close my eyes, this rare perfume
Is the sweet intoxication of her love

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils[73], a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

Sweet desert rose
This memory of Eden haunts us all
This desert flower, this rare perfume
Is the sweet intoxication of the fall

3. Big Lie Small World

I sat down and wrote this letter
Telling you that I felt better
Since you'd gone and I was free
I'm so happy

I have so little time to spare now
I'm wanted almost everywhere now
I make out like Casanova
Friends are always coming over

Signed my name as if I meant it
Sealed it with a kiss and sent it
The letter had improved my mood
Happy in my solitude

But halfway home I changed my tune
And when I saw my lonely room
The mirror caught my eye
When I sit down I cry

Big lie small world
Big lie small world

I had to intercept that letter
Telling you that I was better
I raced to catch the postman's van
He was leaving as I ran

I miss the bus I miss the train
I end up walking in the rain
Big dog chased me down the street
I hadn't had a bite to eat

Feeling sorry for myself
Wishing I was someone else
I walked across the city
'Cause I couldn't stand your pity

Big lie small world
Big lie small world

The place you live looks opulent[74]
And obviously a higher rent
Than our cozy little room
I had this sense of doom

The landlord says you're out of town
That your new boyfriend's always around
The hour was getting late
So I sit down and wait

Here's the postman with my letter
Coming down the path, he'd better
Give that thing to me
I have to make him see

Begging doesn't do the trick
He thinks that I'm a lunatic
And then who comes upon the scene
But your new boyfriend Mr. Clean

I hit the postman, hit your lover
Grabbed the letter ran for cover
The police arrived in time for tea
Said they'd like to question me

I can only curse my fate
I have to face the magistrate
It hasn't been the best of days
I'd like to fly away

Big lie small world
Big lie small world

4. After The Rain Has Fallen

The palace guards are all sleeping
Their fires burn into the night
There's a threat of rain on the dark horizon
And all that's left is a quarter moon of light

He climbs up through the darkness
No weapon but his surprise
The greatest thief in the high Sahara
Enters the room where a sleeping princess lies

All your money, your pretty necklace
This is my work on such a night
There's a storm coming over the mountain
I'll be gone long before the morning

After the rain has fallen
After the tears have washed your eyes
You find that I've taken nothing, that
Love can't replace in the blink of an eye

He was as gentle as the night wind
As no lover had been before
And the rings she wore for her bride groom
Slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor

Take me with you, take me with you
Before my lonely life is set
I've been promised to another
To a man I've never even met

After the rain has fallen
After the tears have washed your eyes
You'll find that I've taken nothing, that
Love can't replace in the blink of an eye
After the thunder's spoken, and
After the lightning bolt's been hurled
After the dream is broken, there'll
Still be love in the world

She said take me to another life
Take me for a pirate's wife
Take me where the wind blows
Take me where the red wine flows
Take me to the danger
Take me to the life of crime
Take me to the stars
Take me to the moon while we still have time

After the rain has fallen
After the tears have washed your eyes
You'll find that I've taken nothing, that
Love can't replace in the blink of an eye
After the thunder's spoken, and
After the lightning bolt's been hurled
After the dream is broken, there'll
Still be love in the world

5. Perfect Love... Gone Wrong

I've had a question that's been preying on my mind for some time
I won't be wagging my tail for one good reason
It has to be a crime

This doghouse never was the place for me
Runner up and second best just ain't my pedigree
I was so happy, just the two of us
Until this alpha male
Turned up in the January sale

He won't love you
Like I love you
It won't be long now before that puppy goes astray
And what I like about this guy the most?.........
He'd be my favourite lamppost
Devil take the hindmost

Je sais que c'est dыr, mais il faut se faire au changement, tu vois
J'ai nйgligй le primordial pendant trop longtemps crois moi:
Je suis consciente, je vois bien que tu souffres, mais зa s'attйnuera
Car c'est d'un homme plus d'un chien dont j'ai besoin pres de moi
Cesse donc de grogner, mon choix est fait c'est comme зa
N'en fais pas trop, ton attitude risque de t'йloigner de moi
Faut que tu comprennes, puisque tu dis m'aimer tant que зa
Dйsormais nous sommes trois, lui toi et moi

It's a shaggy kind of story
Would I tell you if I thought it was a lie?
But when the cat's away the mouse will play
I wouldn't dish around here
There's something fishy round here

I howl all night and I sleep all day
It takes more than biscuit baby to chase these blues away
Got a long enough leash
I could almost hang myself
It's a dog's life loving you baby
But you love someone else
Now he's moved my basket
I'd like to put him in a casket
I'll wear my best collar to his funeral

Ta mauvaise foi, j'aimerais bien que зa s'arrкte
Me sйparer de toi, aujourd'hui зa trotte dans ma tкte
Moi non, j'en peux plus, tu n'es qu'un chien, c'est trop bкte
La situation m'avait pourtant l'air d'кtre des plus nettes
C'est clair, que je l'aime c'est un fait, ton йgoпsme m'inquiиte
Aprиs toutes ces soirйes passйes seuls en tкte а tкte
Chaque chose a une fin, et c'est la fin de la fкte
Pour toi, car bientфt il n'y aura plus que lui et moi, lui et moi.

To have found this perfect life
And a perfect love so strong
Well there can't be nothing worse
Than a perfect love gone wrong

You said I wasn't just your Christmas toy
I'd always be your boy
I'd be your faithful companion
And I would follow you through every thick and thin
Don't need nobody else
And we don't need him

6. Tomorrow We'll See

Привет от Роксаны

The streets are wet
The lights have yet
To shed their tawdry lustre on the scene
My skirt's too short
My tights have run
These new heels are killing me

My second pack of cigarettes
It's a slow night but there's time yet
Here comes John from his other life
He may be driving to his wife
But he'll slow down take a look
I've learned to read them just like books
And it's already half past ten
But they'll be back again

Headlights in the rainy street
I check, make sure it's not the heat
I wink, I smile, I wave my hand
He stops and seems to understand
The small transaction we must make
I tell him that my heart will break
If he's not a generous man
I step into his van

They say the first is the hardest trick
And after that it's just a matter of logic
They have the money I have the time
Being pretty's my only crime
You ask what future do I see
I say it's really up to me
I don't need forgiving
I'm just making a living

Don't judge me
You could be me in another life
In another set of circumstances
Don't judge me
One more night I'll just have to take my chances
And tomorrow we'll see

A friend of mine he wound up dead
His dress was stained the colour red
No next of kin no fixed abode
Another victim on this road
The police just carted him away
But someone took his place next day
He was home by thanksgiving
But not with the living

Don't judge me
You could be me in another life
In another set of circumstances
Don't judge me
One more night I'll just have to take my chances

And no it's just not in my plan
For someone to care who I am

I'm walking the streets for money
It's the business of love, 'hey honey'
C'mon, don't leave me lonely, don't leave me sad
It'll be the sweetest five minutes you ever had

Don't judge me
You could be me in another life
In another set of circumstances
Don't judge me
One more night I'll just have to take my chances
And tomorrow we'll see

7. End Of The Game

The fox is done running
And the beast is at bay
We've run them in circles
By the end of the day

We chased them through bramble
We chased them through the fields
We could chase them forever
But the fox would not heel

And some saw her shadow
On the crest of a hill
All the hounds are distracted
Away from the kill

One day we'll reach a great ocean
At the end of a pale afternoon
And we'd lay down our heads just like we were sleeping
Controlled by the drag of the moon

We ran through the forest
And we ran through the streams
And we ran through the heather
Though we ran in our dreams

And you were my lover
And I was your boy
We ran like the river
For what else did we know

One day we'll reach a great ocean
At the end of a pale afternoon

The dogs are all howling
And the horses are late
All the hunters have hunted
Through the end of the game

Our love was a river
A wild mountain stream
In a tumbling fury
On the edge of a dream

And they chased us through bramble
And they chased us through the fields
They could chase us forever
But our heart would not yield

And the fox is done running
At the end of the day
I'm ready to answer
I'm ready to pay

And this river's done running
And time will come soon
Carried to the great ocean
By the drag of the moon

8. Fill Her Up

Mobil station where I stand
This old gas pump in my hand
My boss don't like me, got a face like a weasel
Oil on my hands and the smell of diesel

Here comes a big shot from the city
V8 engine, she runs so pretty
'Fill her up son, unleaded
I need a full tank of gas where I'm headed'

Up in the front seat a pretty red head
'We're going to Vegas we're gonna get wed'
'So fill her up son, don't be staring
That's a real diamond she be wearing'

I'm gonna take my baby one day
I'm gonna fill her up and head west
I'm going find some money all right

See those tail lights heading west
I got no money to invest
Got no prospects, no education
I was lucky getting a job at this gas station

That old cash box on the top shelf
The boss is sleeping, I'll just help myself
Let's consider this as just a loan
I can sort it out later on the phone

I'm gonna pick my girl up tonight
I'm gonna fill her up and head west
I'm gonna show her all the bright lights
We're gonna say we lived 'for we come home

And as I head through the woods on the way back
The evening sun is slanting through the pine trees real pretty
It's like I walked into a glade of heaven
And there's music playing
This money is cold in my hand
And a voice somewhere is saying
'Why would you wanna take that stolen thing
And what real happiness can it bring?'

You're gonna fill her up with sadness
You're gonna fill her up with shame
You're gonna fill her up with sorrow
Before she even takes your name
You're gonna fill her up with madness
You're gonna fill her up with blame
You're gonna live with no tomorrow
You're gonna fill her up with pain
You're gonna fill her up with darkness
You're gonna fill her up with night
You gotta fill her up with Jesus
You gotta fill her up with light

You gotta fill her up with spirit
You gotta fill her up with grace
You gotta fill her up with heaven
You got the rest of life to face

You gotta fill her up the right way
You gotta fill her up with care
You gotta fill her up with babies
You gotta fill her up and swear
You're gonna love that girl forever
You're gonna fill her up for life
You're gonna be a loving husband
She's gonna be your loving wife
You gotta fill her up with gladness
You gotta fill her up with joy
You gotta fill her up with love
You gotta fill her up with love

9. Ghost Story

I watch the western sky
The sun is sinking
The geese are flying south
It sets me thinking

I did not miss you much
I did not suffer
What did not kill me
Just made me tougher

I feel the winter come
His icy sinews,
Now in the firelight
The case continues

Another night in court
The same old trial
The same old questions asked
The same denial

The shadows closing round
Like jury members
I look for answers in
The fire's embers

Why was I missing then
That whole December?
I give my usual line,
I don't remember

Another winter comes
His icy fingers creep
Into these bones of mine
These memories never sleep
And all these differences
A cloak I borrowed
We kept our distances
Why should it follow that
I must have loved you?

What is the force that binds the stars?
I wore this mask to hide my scars
What is the power that pulls the tide?
Never could find a place to hide

What moves the earth around the sun?
What could I do but run and run and run?
Afraid to love, afraid to fail
A mast without a sail

The moon's a fingernail
And slowly sinking
Another day begins
And now I'm thinking

That this is indifference
Was my invention
When everything I did
Sought your attention

You were my compass star
You were my measure
You were a pirate's map
Of buried treasure

If this was all correct
The last thing I'd expect
The prosecution rests
It's time that I confessed
I must have loved you
I must have loved you

10. Brand New Day

How many of you people out there
Been hurt in some kind of love affair?
And how many times did you swear
That you'd never love again?
How many lonely, sleepless nights?
How many lies, how many fights?
And why would you want to
Put yourself through all of that again?

Love is pain I hear you say
Love has a cruel and bitter way of
Paying you back for all the faith you ever had in your brain
How could it be that what you need the most
Can leave you feeling just like a ghost?
You never want to feel so sad and lost again

One day you could be looking
Through an old book in rainy weather
You see a picture of her smiling at you
When you were still together
You could be walking down the street
And who should you chance to meet
But that same old smile you've been thinking of all day?

Why don't we turn the clock to zero honey
I'll sell the stock we'll spend all the money
We're starting up a brand new day
Turn the clock all the way back
I wonder if she'll take me back
I'm thinking in a brand new way

Turn the clock to zero sister
You'll never know how much I missed her
I'm starting up a brand new day
Turn the clock to zero boss
The river's wide we'll swim across
We're starting up a brand new day

It could happen to you,
Just like it happened to me,
There is simply no immunity
There's no guarantee.
I say love is such a force if you should find yourself in it
You need some time for reflection
You say, baby wait a minute, wait a minute
Wait a minute, wait a minute
Wait a minute, wait a minute

Turn the clock to zero honey
I'll sell the stock we'll spend all the money
We're starting up a brand new day
Turn the clock to zero Mac
I'm begging her to take me back
I'm thinking in a brand new way

Turn the clock to zero boss
The river's wide we'll swim across
Starting up a brand new day
Turn the clock to zero buddy
Don't wanna be no fuddy duddy
We're starting up a brand new day

I'm the rhythm in your tune
I'm the sun and you're the moon
I'm the bat and you're the cave
You're the beach and I'm the wave
I'm the plough and you're the land
You're the glove and I'm the hand
I'm the train and you're the station
I'm the flagpole to your nation

I'm the present to your future
You're the wound and I'm the suture
You're the magnet to my pole
I'm the devil in your soul
You're the pupil I'm the teacher
You're the church and I'm the preacher
You're the flower I'm the rain
You're the tunnel I'm the train

Stand up all you lovers in the world
Stand up and be counted every boy and every girl
Stand up all you lovers in the world
We're starting up a brand new day

You're the crop to my rotation
You're the sum of my equation
I'm the answer to your question
If you follow my suggestion
We can turn this ship around
And go up instead of down
You're the pan and I'm the handle
You're the flame and I'm the candle

Stand up all you lovers in the world
Stand up and be counted every boy and every girl
Stand up all you lovers in the world
We're starting up a brand new day

(c) 1999 EMI Music Publishing Ltd./Magnetic Publishing (PRS)

Sting At The Movies

Sting At The Movies is a Japanese and Korean release, and the collection is a flawed gem. It could have been magnificent, but has to settle for just being superb. It's not the singles, it's not just the hits. This considered collection trawls the movie soundtracks of the past twenty years and gathers together, in one place, some outstanding Sting tracks.

All songs/lyrics by Sting
except where stated.

De do do do, de da da da

I burn for you

Need Your Love So Bad

Englishman In New York

Someone To Watch Over Me

Demolition Man

All For Love

Shape Of My Heart

The Secret Marriage

This Cowboy Song

It's Probably Me

Angel Eyes

Moonlight

My One And Only Love

Fragile

Murder By Numbers

Valparaiso

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

Don't think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They're only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true

Poets, priests and poiticians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one's jamming their transmission
And when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true


I Burn For You

Now that I have found you
In the coolth of your evening smile
The shade of your parasol
And your love flows through me
Though I drink at your pool
I burn for you, I burn for

You and I are lovers
When night time folds around our bed
In peace we sleep entwined
And your love flows through me
Though an ocean soothes my head
I burn for you, I burn for

Stars will fall from dark skies
As ancient rocks are turning
Quiet fills the room
And your love flows through me
Though I lie here so still
I burn for you, I burn for you

I burn...


Need Your Love So Bad

Written by Willie Dixon.

I need someone's hand, to lead me through the night
I need someone's arms, to hold and squeeze me tight
Now when the night begins, I'm at an end
Because I need your love so bad.

I need some lips, to feel next to mine
I need someone to stand up, and tell me when I'm lyin'
And when the lights are low, and it's time to go
That's when I need your love so bad.

So why don't you give it up, and bring it home to me
Or write it on a piece of paper baby, so it can be read to me
Tell me that you love me, and stop driving me mad
Oh because I, I need your love so bad.

I need your soft voice, to talk to me at night
I don't want you to worry baby,
I know we can make everything alright
Listen to my plea, baby, bring it to me
Because I need your love so bad.


Englishman In New York

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on the side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York

See me walking down Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere I walk
I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

If "manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run

If "manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York


Someone To Watch Over Me

Written by George and Ira Gershwin

There's a saying old says that love is blind,
Still were often told, "seek and you shall find"
So I'm going to seek a certain girl I've had in mind
Looking everywhere, haven't found her yet
She's the big affair I cannot forget
Only girl I ever think of with regret
I'd like to add her initial to my monogram
Tell me, where is the shepherdess for this lost lamb?

There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me
Although I may not be the man some girls think of as handsome
To her heart I carry the key
Won't you tell her please to put on some speed, follow my lead
Oh, how I need someone who'll watch over me

There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone to watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me

Although I may not be the man some girls think of as handsome
To her heart I carry the key
Won't you tell her please to put on some speed, follow my lead
Oh, how I need someone to watch over me


Demolition Man

Oh! Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition

Tied to the tracks and the train's fast coming
Strapped to the wing with the engine running
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man

Tied to a chair, and the bomb is ticking
This situation was not of your picking
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man

I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition

You come to me like a moth to the flame
It's love you need but I don't play that game
'Cause you could be my greatest fan
But I'm nobody's friend, I'm a demolition man

I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition

Tied to the tracks and the train's fast coming
Strapped to the wing with the engine running
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man

Tied to a chair, and the bomb is ticking
This situation was not of your picking
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man


Shape Of My Heart

Written by Sting & Dominic Miller

He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn't play for the money he wins
He don't play for respect

He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden law of a probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart

He may play the jack of diamonds
He may lay the queen of spades
He may conceal a king in his hand
While the memory of it fades

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart

And if I told you that I loved you
You'd maybe think there's something wrong
I'm not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one

Well, those who speak know nothin'
And find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who fear are lost

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart


All For Love

Words and music by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting

When it's love you give
(I'll be a man of good faith)
Then in love you live
(I'll make a stand, I won't break)
I'll be the rock you can build on
Be there when you're old, to have and to hold

When there's love inside
(I swear I'll always be strong)
Then there's a reason why
(I'll prove to you we belong)
I'll be the wall that protects you
From the wind and the rain
From the hurt and pain.

Let's make it all for one and all for love
Let the one you hold be the one you want
The one you need
'Cause when it's all for one it's one for all
When there's someone that should know
Then just let your feelings show
And make it all for one and all for love

When it's love you make
(I'll be the fire in your night)
Then it's love you take
(I will defend, I will fight)
I'll be there when you need me.
When honour's at stake, this vow I will make

That it's all for one and all for love
Let the one be the one you want
The one you need
'Cause when it's all for one it's one for all
When there's someone that should know
Then just let your feelings show
And make it all for one and all for love

Don't lay our love to rest
'Cause we could stand up to your test
We got everything and more than we had planned
More than the rivers that run the land
We've got it all in our hands

Now it's all for one and all for love
(It's all for love)
Let the one you hold be the one you want
The one you need
'Cause when it's all for one it's one for all
(It's one for all)
When there's someone that should know
Then just let your feelings show
When there's someone that you want
When there's someone that you need
Let's make it all, all for one and all for love


The Secret Marriage

No earthly church has ever blessed our union
No state has ever granted us permission
No family bond has ever made us two
No company has ever earned commission

No debt was paid no dowry to be gained
No treaty over border land or power
No semblance of the world outside remained
To stain the beauty of this nuptial hour

The secret marriage vow is never spoken
The secret marriage can never be broken

No flowers on the altar
No white veil in your hair
No maiden dress to alter
No bible oath to swear

The secret marriage vow is never spoken
The secret marriage can never be broken


This Cowboy Song

We rode all night across an endless desert
We had no moon to light our way
And though a million stars were slowly turning
We lacked the consciences to pray

Our horses running like a devil chase us
Their feet, they hardly touched the ground
Yes, I'm familiar with a grey wolf howling
But I'm certain I never heard that sound
Devil to pay on judgement day
Would Jesus strike me down if I should pray?
This cowboy song is all I know
To bring me back into your arms
Your distant sun, your shining light
You'll be my dog-star shining tonight

I've been the lowest of the low on the planet
I've been a sinner all my days
When I was living with my hand on the trigger
I had no sense to change my ways
The preacher asked if I'd embrace the resurrection
To suck the poison from my life
Just like an existential cowboy villain
His words were balanced on my knife
Devil to pay, on judgement day
Would Jesus strike me down if I should pray?

This cowboy song is all I know
To bring me back into your arms
Your distant sun, your shining light
You'll be my dog-star shining tonight

Every night
Every night
All my distances afar

This cowboy song, is all I know
To bring me back into your arms
This cowboy song, this cowboy life
I'll be your dog-star shining tonight


It's Probably Me

Written by Sting, Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton

If the night turned cold
And the stars looked down
And you hug yourself
On the cold cold ground
You wake the morning
In a stranger's coat
No-one would you see
You ask yourself, 'Who'd watch for me?'
My only friend, who could it be?
It's hard to say it
I hate to say it
But it's probably me

When your belly's empty
And the hunger's so real
And you're too proud to beg
And too dumb to steal
You search the city
For your only friend
No-one would you see
You ask yourself, 'Who could it be?'
A solitary voice to speak out and set me free
I hate to say it
I hate to say it
But it's probably me

You're not the easiest person I ever got to know
And it's hard for us both to let our feelings show
Some would say
I should let you go your way
You'll only make me cry
If there's one guy, just one guy
Who'd lay down his life for you and die
It's hard to say it
I hate to say it
But it's probably me

When the world's gone crazy, and it makes no sense
And there's only one voice that comes to your defence
And the jury's out
And your eyes search the room
And one friendly face is all you need to see
If there's one guy, just one guy
Who'd lay down his life for you and die
It's hard to say it
I hate to say it
But it's probably me

I hate to say it
I hate to say
But it's probably me
I hate to say it
I hate to say
But it's probably me
I hate to say it
I hate to say
But it's probably me

Dog-star...


Angel Eyes

written by Matt Dennis & Earl Brent

Have you ever had the feeling
That the world's gone and left you behind
Have you ever had the feeling
That you're that close to losing your mind

You look around each corner
Hoping that she's there
You try to play it cool perhaps
Pretend that you don't care

But it doesn't do a bit of good
You got to seek till you find
Are you never unwind

Try to think
That love is not around
Still it's uncomfortably near

My old heart
Ain't gaining no ground
Because my angel eyes ain't here

Angel eyes
That old devil sent
They glow unbearably bright
Need I say
That my love's misspent
Misspent with angel eyes tonight

So drink up all you people
Order anything you see
Have fun you happy people
The drink and the laugh's on me

Pardon me
But I gotta run
The fact's uncomfortably clear
Gotta find
Who's now number one
And why my angel eyes ain't here
Tell me why my angel eyes ain't here
Excusez moi my angel eyes ain't here
Excuse me while I disappear


Moonlight

written by John Williams, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

In the moonlight
When the shadows play
When the thought of what could happen
Takes your breath away
Sighs and whispers
Quiet laughter in the air
Unspoken invitations everywhere

In the moonlight
All the words you say
Make it relatively easy
To be swept away
In the half-light
Can we trust the way we feel
Can we be sure that anything is real?

Stars keep secrets as they wander indiscretely
While the echoes of a song go drifting by
We must be careful not to lose our way completely
Or the magic that we seek here
We can't be sure will be here

In the morning
With the moon away
And if in each other's arms
Is where we're meant to stay

In the love light
When our eyes have grown accustomed to the daylight
We'll see what waits for us to share
For all the things we've dreamed of in the moonlight
Will be there


My One And Only Love

written by Robert Mellin & Guy Wood

The very thought of you makes
My heart sing
Like an April breeze
On the wings of spring
And you appear in all your splendour
My one and only love

The shadows fall
And spread their mystic charms
In the hush of night
While you're in my arms
I feel your lips so warm and tender
My one and only love

The touch of your hand is like heaven
A heaven that I've never known
The blush on your cheek
Whenever I speak
Tells me that you are my own

You fill my eager heart with
Such desire
Every kiss you give
Sets my soul on fire
I give myself in sweet surrender
My one and only love

The blush on your cheek
Whenever I speak
Tells me that you are my own
You fill my eager heart with
Such desire
Every kiss you give
Sets my soul on fire
I give myself in sweet surrender
My one and only love

My one and only love


Fragile

If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay

Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star, like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are, how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star, like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are, how fragile we are
How fragile we are, how fragile we are


Murder By Numbers

Written by Sting & Andy Summers

Once that you've decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art

There really isn't any need for bloodshed
You just do it with a little more finesse
If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee
Then it avoids an awful lot of mess

It's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC

Now if you have a taste for this experience
And you're flushed with your very first success
Then you must try a twosome or a threesome
And you'll find your conscience bothers you much less

Because murder is like anything you take to
It's a habit-forming need for more and more
You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a bore

Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC

Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history's great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name

But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand

Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E


Valparaiso

Chase the dog star
Over the sea
Home where my true love is waiting for me
Rope the south wind
Canvas the stars
Harness the moonlight
So she can safely go
Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso

Red the port light
Starboard the green
How will she know of the devils I've seen
Cross in the sky, star of the sea
Under the moonlight, there she can safely go
Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso

And every road I walked would take me down to the sea
With every broken promise in my sack
And every love would always send the ship of my heart
Over the rolling sea

If I should die
And water's my grave
She'll never know if I'm damned or I'm saved
See the ghost fly over the sea
Under the moonlight, there she can safely go


Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso

MISCELLANEOUS TRACKS

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A Day In The Life

Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney

I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords

I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look

Having read the book...

I'd love to turn... you... on...

Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

Ahhh...

I heard the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn... you... on...

Demolition Man Soundtrack
(c) 1993 A&M Records, Inc.

Ain't No Sunshine

Written by Bill Withers

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
It's not warm when she's away
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And she's always gone too long anytime she goes away

Wonder this time where she's gone
Wonder if she's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know...

I ought to leave the young thing alone, but
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
Only darkness everyday
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away...

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know...

I ought to leave the young thing alone, but
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

David Sanborn: Inside
(c) 1999 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc.

All For Love

Written by Bryan Adams

When it's love you give
I'll be a man of good faith.
Then in love you live.
I'll make a stand. I won't break.
I'll be the rock you can build on,
Be there when you're old,
To have and to hold.

When there's love inside
I swear I'll always be strong.
Then there's a reason why.
I'll prove to you we belong.
I'll be the wall that protects you
From the wind and the rain,
From the hurt and pain.

Let's make it all for one and all for love.
Let the one you hold be the one you want,
The one you need,
'Cause when it's all for one it's one for all.
When there's someone that should know
Then just let your feelings show
And make it all for one and all for love.

When it's love you make
I'll be the fire in your night.
Then it's love you take.
I will defend, I will fight.
I'll be there when you need me.
When honor's at stake,
This vow I will make:

That it's all for one and all for love.
Let the one be the one you want,
The one you need,
'Cause when it's all for one it's one for all.
When there's someone that should know
Then just let your feelings show
And make it all for one and all for love.

Don't lay our love to rest
'Cause we could stand up to the test.
We got everything and more than we had planned,
More than the rivers that run the land.
We've got it all in our hands.

Now it's all for one and all for love.
It's all for love.
Let the one you hold be the one you want,
The one you need,
'Cause when it's all for one it's one for all.
It's one for all.
When there's someone that should know
Then just let your feelings show.
When there's someone that you want,
When there's someone that you need
Let's make it all, all for one and all for love.

The Three Musketeers Soundtrack
(c) 1993 A&M Records, Inc.

Angel Eyes

Written by Earl Brent & Matt Dennis

Have you ever had the feeling
That the world's gone and left you behind
Have you ever had the feeling
That you're that close to losing your mind

You look around each corner
Hoping that she's there
You try to play it cool perhaps
Pretend that you don't care

But it doesn't do a bit of good
You got to seek till you find
Are you never unwind

Try to think
That love is not around
Still it's uncomfortably near

My old heart
Ain't gaining no ground
Because my angel eyes ain't here

Angel eyes
That old devil sent
They glow unbearably bright
Need I say
That my love's misspent
Misspent with angel eyes tonight

So drink up all you people
Order anything you see
Have fun you happy people
The drink and the laugh's on me

Pardon me
But I gotta run
The fact's uncomfortably clear
Gotta find
Who's now number one
And why my angel eyes ain't here
Tell me why my angel eyes ain't here
Excusez moi my angel eyes ain't here
Excuse me while I disappear

Leaving Las Vegas - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(c) 1995 Pangea Records

Another Pyramid

Written by Tim Rice & Elton John

Sad to say our mighty ruler
Is not really in the pink
Hopes could not be minesculer
That he'll come back from the brink

Not to beat around the bush he
Looks like heading for his box
At the risk of seeming pushy
We must plan for future shocks

According to the Hawk God, Horus
Our most regal invalid
Is not that much longer for us
Build another pyramid!

Though all doctors and physicians
Have been summoned to his bed
It will soon be top morticians
We'll be calling for instead

With each wheeze the nation's humming
Egypt shakes with every cough
No two ways about what's coming
No discussion - bets are off

Soon our Pharaoh will have filled a
Tomb just like his father did
Summon Egypt's greatest builder
Re: another pyramid!

We hate to depress the nation
But our leader has been told
He should cancel his vacation
Even put tonight on hold

This is where his loyal priesthood
Has the chance to do him proud
Holy leaders at the least should
See him happy to his shroud

He must have a vault that's grand by
Any standards, floor to lid
Put five thousand slaves on standby
Build another pyramid!

Aida Soundtrack
(c) 1999 PDG/Island

Be Bop A Lula

Written by Gene Vincent & S.T. Davis

Be bop a lula, she's my baby
Be bop a lula, I don't mean maybe
Be bop a lula, she's my baby
Be bop a lula, I don't mean maybe
Be bop a lula, she's my baby doll

She's the woman in the red blue jeans
She's the queen of all the teens
She's the woman I love her so
She's the woman that thrills me so
Be bop a lula, she's my baby
Be bop a lula, I don't mean maybe
Be bop a lula, she's my baby doll, my baby doll

Be bop a lula, she's my baby
Be bop a lula, I don't mean maybe
Be bop a lula, she's my baby
Be bop a lula, I don't mean maybe
Be bop a lula, she's my baby doll, baby doll

Sting: Chicago Session
(c) 1992 Phonocomp

Beneath A Desert Moon

Written by Sting

From the mountains on the moon to the mighty delta
From the deserts of the West to the shining sea
Beneath the canopy of stars flows the serpent river
Flowing through my father's land that he left to me

From the baker, to the priest, to the candle maker
From the highest to the low in my father's land
We make our offer to the sun 'fore the break of morning
Or else everything we have will just turn to sand

I have a lot to ask
I have a lot that I need to say
I have so much do
And all I need is another day

From the soldier, to the scribe, to the carpet maker
All the different colored threads in a carpet loom
A woven tapestry of life is our mighty nation
This is the writing on the wall of my father's tomb

We have a lot to ask
We have a lot that we need to say
We have so much do
And all we need is another day

Beneath the desert moon, I call you
Beneath the desert moon, I sing
Beneath the desert moon, so lonely
I'm just a boy who would be king

With just the moon to guide us
We sometimes lose our way
If there's a light inside us
We'll follow it to the brightness of the day

Every single blade of grass, every yellow flower
Every ripple on the sea of the blue, blue Nile
Every leaf on every tree, every single creature
From the smallest little bird, to the crocodile

We have a lot to ask
We have a lot that we need to say
We have so much do
And all we need is another day

Beneath the desert moon, I call you
Beneath the desert moon, we sing
Beneath the desert moon, we're waiting
Before the coming of the king

Beneath the desert moon that's sinking
We see the Eastern sky's on fire
This is where darkness leaves
And shining waters fall
And let the shadows run
And we'll say, "welcome to the sun."

Brand new day...

You Still Touch Me single
(c) 1996 A&M Records, Inc.

Caro Mio Ben

Written by Giuseppe Giordani

Caro mio ben
Credimi almen,
Senza di te
Languisce il cor,
Caro mio ben,
Senza di te
Languisce il cor.

Il tuo fedel
So spira ognor.
Cessa, crudel,
Tanto rigor!
Cessa, crudel,
Tanto rigor,
Tanto rigor!

Caro mio ben
Credimi almen,
Senza di te
Languisce il cor,

Caro mio ben
Credimi almen,
Senza di te
Languisce il cor.

Sting: Covering 'em (1993)

Come Down In Time

Written by Elton John & Bernie Taupin

In the quiet silent seconds I turned off the light switch
And I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left
While a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune
A mantle of bright light shone down from a room

Come down in time I still hear her say
So clear in my ear like it was today
Come down in time was the message she gave to me
Come down in time and I'll meet you half way

Well I don't know if I should have heard her as yet
But a true love like hers is a hard love to get
And I've walked most all the way and I ain't heard her call
And I'm getting to thinking if she's coming at all

Come down in time I still hear her say
So clear in my ear like it was today
Come down in time was the message she gave to me
Come down in time and I'll meet you half way

There are women and women, and some hold you tight
While some leave you counting the stars in the night

Two Rooms (Celebrating The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin)
(c) 1991 Polygram Records

Conversation With A Dog

Written by Sting

I asked my dog what he thought the best in man
He said, "The love you dispense to me twice daily from a can."
I said, "Why do you think my question funny?
And where would you be without my money?"
I said, "There may be some quality in us you must treasure."
"It's despair," he said, "of which your money is the measure."

Walk like a dog
Like anybody can
Walk like a dog
Like anybody can

"What about our politics, philosophy, our history?"
He said, "If there is something admirable in these it is a mystery."
"But there must be something in our system tell me at your leisure."
"It's despair," he said, "of which your borders are the measure."

Walk like a dog
Talk like a man
Walk like a dog
Like anybody can

Walk like a dog
Talk like a man
Walk like a dog
Like anybody can

"What about technology, computers, nuclear fission?"
"I'm terrified of radiation, hate the television."
I said, "There must be something in our scientific treasure."
"It's despair," he said, "of which your weapons are the measure."

"Feed me, you can beat me. I will love you till I die.
But don't ask for admiration and don't ever ask me why."
I said, "Why wait till now to demonstrate displeasure?"
"It's despair," he said, "of which my silence was the measure."

Walk like a dog
Talk like a man
Walk like a dog
Like anybody can

Walk like a dog
Talk like a man
Walk like a dog
Like anybody can

We'll Be Together single
(c) 1987 A&M Records, Inc.

Cushie Butterfield

Written by George Ridley

I'm a broken-hearted keelman
And I'm o'er head in love
With a young lass from Gyetsid
And I call 'er my dove

Her name's Cushie Butterfield
And she sells yellow clay
And 'er cousin's a muckman
And they call him Tom Gray

She's a big lass
She's a bonny lass
And she likes her beer
And I call her Cushie Butterfield
And I wish she was here

Her eyes is like two holes
In a blanket burnt through
And her breath in the mornin'
Would scare a young coo

She wears big galoshes
And her stockings once was white
And her bed gown it's lilac
And her hat's never straight

She's a big lass
She's a bonny lass
And she likes her beer
And I call her Cushie Butterfield
And I wish she was here

For Our Children
(c) 1991 Walt Disney Productions

Gabriel's Message

(Traditional)

The angel Gabriel from heaven came
His wings as drifted snow
His eyes as flame
"All hail" said he "thou lowly maiden Mary,
Most highly favored lady," Gloria!

"For known a blessed mother thou shalt be,
All generations laud and honor thee,
Thy Son shall be Emanuel,
By seers foretold
Most highly favored lady," Gloria!

Then gentle Mary meekly bowed her head
"To me be as it pleaseth God," she said,
"My soul shall laud and magnify his holy name."
Most highly favored lady. Gloria!

Of her Emanuel, the Christ was born
In Bethlehem all on a Christmas morn
And everyone throughout the world forever saved
Most highly favored lady Gloria!

A Very Special Christmas
(c) 1987 A&M Records, Inc.

Get Up Stand Up

Written by Bob Marley

Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight

Preacherman don't tell me, heaven is under the earth
I know, you don't know, what life is really worth
If all that glitters was gold
Heard the story which never been told
Now you see the light
So get up for your rights

Get up, stand up
Sit up for your right
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight

Well people say: a great God will come from the sky
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high
If you know what life is worth
You will look to yours on earth
And now you see the light
Stand up for your rights

Get up, stand up
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight
People don't, people don't, people don't
Get up, stand up
Sit up for your right
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight

I'm sick and tired of
The same of shame of thing
Die and go to heaven in Jesus' name
Cause we know and we understand
That a mighty God is a livin' man
Be so clear for sometime
But you cannot fool all the people all the time
Now you see the light
So get up for your rights

Get up, stand up
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your rights
Stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight
Weeeooo...
We won't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight
Weeeooo...
We won't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight

Rechos humanos
Rechos humanos ya
Rechos humanos
Rechos humanos ya
Rechos humanos
Rechos humanos ya
Rechos humanos
Va las siempre ta

Rechos humanos
Rechos humanos ya
Rechos humanos
Va las siempre ta

Rechos humanos
Rechos humanos ya
Rechos humanos
Va las siempre ta...

Un dos, mas forte...

Don't give up the fight...

Sting: Covering 'em (1993)

How Insensitive (Insensatez)

Written by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes & Norman Gimbel

How insensitive
I must have seemed
When she told me that she loved me
How unmoved and cold
I must have seemed
When she told me so sincerely

Why she must have asked
Did I just turn and stare in icy silence
What was I to say
What can you say
When a love affair is over

Now she's gone away
And I'm alone
With a memory of her last look
Vague and drawn and sad
I see it still
All her heartbreak in her last look
How she must have asked,
Could I just turn and stare in icy silence
What was I to do
What can one say
When a love affair is over

Antonio Carlos Jobim: Antonio Brasileiro
(c) 1995 Columbia

If You There

Written by Sting

Your beauty pulses like a distant star
Once you were so near to me
And now you've gone so far

Wretched and affixed the word is in his stone
Lying now don't move nor speak no statue here alone

Living here just with a memory
A simple recollection that's so dear to me
You said it's logical that we should part
What's pleasing to my intellect
Must surely break my heart

Man will always want what he can't have
It's more than he can do just to be brave
He seeks perfection in a thousand ways
Just throw another shovel on his grave

Born to live
Born to die
Born to wonder
Why, why, why, why

If you there
Would you leave me wondering?
If you there
Am I one man only?
If you there
Don't leave me wondering
If you there

You say that all we have is what we see
Baby all you understand is a little part of me
You said that I could never be the one
Promises evaporate in the angle of the sun
If the only certain thing is death
Walk a little nearer to it now with every breath
And if this time must wear a velvet glove
Then kindness and lies are the true friends of love

Man will always want what he can't have
It's more than he can do just to be brave
He seeks perfection in a thousand ways
Just throw another shovel on his grave

Born to live
Born to die
Born to wonder
Why, why, why, why

If you there
Would you leave me wondering?
If you there
Am I one man only?
If you there
Don't leave me wondering
If you there

Englishman In New York single
(c) 1988 A&M Records, Inc.

I'll Follow My Secret Heart

Written by Noël Coward

Don't be afraid I'll betray you
And destroy all the plans you have made
But even your schemes must
Leave room for my dreams
So when all I owe to you is pain
I'll still have something of my own
A little prize that's mine alone

I'll follow my secret heart
My whole life through
I'll keep all my dreams apart
Till one comes true
No matter what price is paid
What stars may fade above
I'll follow my secret heart
Till I find love

No matter what price is paid
What stars may fade above
I'll follow my secret heart
Till I find love

Twentieth-Century Blues - The Songs Of Noël Coward (1998)

I Need You Like This Hole In My Head

Written by Sting

Lady Dolphin and her Dolphin beau
Were swimming out to sea one day
All the other lady dolphins smiled
But they were smiling in that subtle dolphin way

So they pretended that they'd pay it no mind
But she was female of the jealous kind
She couldn't stand it not to ask him why
She could see that he was flattered by the twinkle in his eye

She said, "How much do you need me?"
How much do you need me?
Would you stay with me 'til this ocean floor is dry?
But if you cannot find the words that say
I'm the only one you love that way
I guess we'll have to say goodbye

He said, "My love for you is wider than the wide Sargasso Sea"
I have to find a way to win you dear
But there's two atmospheres of pressure on me here

How much do I need you? How much do I need you?
I can't seem to find the words to make you stay
But remember all the things I've said
That I'll love you 'til the day I'm dead
'Cause I need you like this hole in my head
I need you like this hole in my head

Dolphins Soundtrack
(c) 2000 Ark21

In The Wee Small Hours

Written by David Mann & Bob Hilliard

In the wee small hours
Of the morning
While the whole wide world
Is fast asleep

You lie awake
And think about that girl
But never ever think of
Counting sheep

Now when your lonely heart
Has learnt its lesson
You'd be hers
If only she would call
In the wee small hours
Of the morning
That's the time
You miss her most of all

Now when your lonely heart
Has learnt its lesson
You'd be hers
If only she would call
In the wee small hours
Of the morning
That's the time
You miss her most
For as now
You miss her most
That's the time
You miss her most of all

Chris Botti: Slowing Down The World
(c) 1999 GRP Records, Inc.

I Saw Three Ships

(Traditional)

I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas day in the morning.

And what was in those ships all three?
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
And what was in those ships all three?
On Christmas day in the morning.

Our Saviour, Christ, and His Lady,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
Our Saviour, Christ, and His Lady,
On Christmas day in the morning.

Pray, whither sailed those ships all three?
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
Pray, whither sailed those ships all three?
On Christmas day in the morning.

O, they sailed to Bethlehem,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
O, they sailed to Bethlehem,
On Christmas day in the morning.

And all the bells on earth shall ring,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
And all the bells on earth shall ring,
On Christmas day in the morning.

And all the angels in heaven shall sing,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
And all the angels in heaven shall sing,
On Christmas day in the morning.

And all the souls on earth shall sing,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
And all the souls on earth shall sing,
On Christmas day in the morning.

Then let us all rejoice and sing,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
Then let us all rejoice and sing,
On Christmas day in the morning.

A Very Special Christmas 3
(c) 1997 A&M Records, Inc.

I Shall Be Released

Written by Bob Dylan

They say ev'rything can be replaced,
Yet ev'ry distance is not near.
So I remember ev'ry face
Of ev'ry man who put me here.
I see my light come shining
From the West unto the East.
Any day now, any way now,
I shall be released.

They say ev'ry man needs protection,
They say ev'ry man must fall.
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall.
I see my light come shining
From the West unto the East.
Any day now, any way now,
I shall be released.

Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is a man who swears he's not to blame.
All day long I hear him shout so loud,
Crying out that he was framed.
I see my light come shining
From the West unto the East.
Any day now, any way now,
I shall be released.

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982)

It Ain't Necessarily So

Written by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin

It ain't necessarily so,
It ain't necessarily so.
The things that you're liable to read in the Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.

David was small but oh my.
David was small but oh my.
He fought big Goliath who lay down and dieth.
David was small but oh my.
David was small but oh my.

Jonah he lived in a whale.
Jonah he lived in a whale.
He made his home in a fishes abdomen.
Jonah he lived in a whale.
Jonah he lived in a whale.

Moses was found on a stream.
Moses was found on a stream.
Floated on water old Pharaoh's daughter
Fished him she says from that stream.

It ain't necessarily so,
It ain't necessarily so.
Things that you're liable to read in the Bible,
It ain't necessarily so,
It ain't necessarily so,
It ain't necessarily so,
It ain't necessarily so.

Joe Henderson: Porgy And Bess
(c) 1997 Verve

It's A Lonesome Old Town

Written by Harry Tobias & Charles Kisco

It's a lonesome old town
When you're not around
I'm lonely
As I can be

I never knew
How much I'd miss you
But now
I can plainly see

It's a lonesome old town
When you're not around
How I wish you'd come back to me
How I wish you'd come back to me
How I wish you'd come back to me

Lonesome old town
Lonesome, lonesome old town
It's a lonesome old town

Leaving Las Vegas - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(c) 1995 Pangea Records

January Stars

Written by Sting

Ten below and falling fast
Those days of summer were long past
My horoscope said you'd come back
I have my doubts, you see

And as I watched the mercury
And thought about the prophecy
A new moon and an early thaw
I watched the door for you

If January stars came true

And as I gaze at winter stars
The second house conjunct with Mars
They would suggest that we'll be one
I have my doubts, you see

If I maintain a skeptic's eye
And train the other on the sky
I'd eat my hat if it came true
I'd prob'ly eat yours, too

If January stars came true
If January stars came true

Now I'm in a pretty mess
It's getting warmer, I confess
My horoscope said you'd come back
I have my doubts, it's true

And as I watched the mercury
And thought about the prophecy
A new moon and an early thaw
I left the door for you

If January stars,
If January stars,
If January stars came true
January stars, ooh

If I Ever Lose My Faith In You single
(c) 1993 A&M Records, Inc.

Lullaby To An Anxious Child

Written by Sting

Hush child,
Let your mommy sleep into the night until we rise
Hush child,
Let me soothe the shining tears that gather in your eyes

Hush child,
I won't leave I'll stay with you to cross this Bridge of Sighs
Hush child,
I can help the look of accusation in your eyes
In your eyes

The world is broken and now
All in sorrow
Wise men hang their heads

Hush child,
Let your mommy sleep into the night until we rise
Hush child,
All the strength I'll need to find, I'll find inside your eyes
In your eyes

You Still Touch Me single
(c) 1996 A&M Records, Inc.

Mack The Knife

Written by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht & Marc Blitzstein

See the shark, how red his fins are
As he slashes at his prey
Mac the Knife wears white kid gloves which
Give the minimum away

And the ghastly fire in Soho,
Seven children at one go
In the crowd stands Mac the Knife, but
He's not asked and doesn't know

In the crowd stands Mac the Knife, but
He's not asked and doesn't know

Sting: Covering 'em (1993)

Mo Ghile Mear (Our Hero)

'Se/ mo laoch, mo Ghile Mear
'Se/ mo Chaesar Gile Mear
Suan na/ se/an ni/ bhfuaireas fe/in
O/ chuaigh i gce/in mo Ghile Mear

Grief and pain are all I know
My heart is sore
My tears a'flow
We saw him go...
No word we know of him, ochon

'Se/ mo laoch, mo Ghile Mear
'Se/ mo Chaesar Gile Mear
Suan na/ se/an ni/ bhfuaireas fe/in
O/ chuaigh i gce/in mo Ghile Mear

A proud and gallant chevalier
A high man's scion of gentle mean
A fiery blade engaged to reap
He'd break the bravest in the field

'Se/ mo laoch, mo Ghile Mear
'Se/ mo Chaesar Gile Mear
Suan na/ se/an ni/ bhfuaireas fe/in
O/ chuaigh i gce/in mo Ghile Mear

Come sing his praise as sweet harps play
And proudly toast his noble frame
With spirit and with mind aflame
So wish him strength and length of day

'Se/ mo laoch, mo Ghile Mear
'Se/ mo Chaesar Gile Mear
Suan na/ se/an ni/ bhfuaireas fe/in
O/ chuaigh i gce/in mo Ghile Mear

The Chieftains: Long Black Veil
(c) 1995 RCA

Moonlight

Written by John Williams, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman

In the moonlight
When the shadows play
When the thought of what could happen
Takes your breath away
Sighs and whispers
Quiet laughter in the air
Unspoken invitations everywhere

In the moonlight
All the words you say
Make it relatively easy
To be swept away
In the half-light
Can we trust the way we feel
Can we be sure that anything is real?

Stars keep secrets as they wander indiscretely
While the echoes of a song go drifting by
We must be careful not to lose our way completely
Or the magic that we seek here
We can't be sure will be here

In the morning
With the moon away
And if in each other's arms
Is where we're meant to stay

In the love-light
When our eyes have grown accustomed to the daylight
We'll see what waits for us to share
For all the things we've dreamed of in the moonlight
Will be there

Sabrina Soundtrack
(c) 1995 A&M Records, Inc.

Muoio Per Te (Mad About You)

Written by Sting & Zucchero

A un passo da Gerusalemme
E a un solo un miglio dalla luna
Sotto un cielo di milioni di stelle
Ho il cuore perso in un pianeta lontano
Che gira intorno e cade gui'
Con archi di tristezza,
Io muoio per te, muoio per te!
E se il mio regno diventa sabbia
E cade in fondo al mare:

Io muoio per te, (io) muoio per te!

E dalla fonde oscure valli
Canzoni antiche di tristezza
Mo ogni passo io pensavo a te
Ogni passo solo te
Per ogni stella un granello di sabbia
Gli avanzi di un asciutto mare
Dimmi, quanto tempo, quanto ancora!

C'e' una citta nel deserto e riposa
La vanita di un antico re
Ma la citta riposa in pezzi,
Dove il vento urla all'avvoltoio
Quello che ha fatto l'uomo
Con l'ambizione, e tutto questo
Faro prigione la mia vita
Se sei la sposa per un altro
Che i miei nemici siano liberi,
Io cado e sono qui,
Che muoio per te, muoio per te!

E solo come mai,
Cosi solo come ora mai!

Con tutti i miei domini
Cosa sono qui
Sono niente cosi
Non ci son vittorie
Nelle nostre storie, senza amor!

A un passo da Gerusalemme
E a un solo un miglio dalla luna
Sotto un cielo di milioni di stelle
Ho il cuore perso in un pianeta lontano
Che gira intorno e cade gui'
Con archi di tristezza,
Io muoio per te, muoio per te!

E anche se hai le chiavi
E distruggi quel che ho
Ogni prigione in polvere
Nemici piu non ho
(E) i regni miei di sabbia mare,
Io muoio per te, muoio per te!

Pavarotti & Friends
(c) 1992 The Decca Record Company Limited

My Funny Friend And Me

Written by Sting and David Hartley

In the quiet time of evening
When the stars assume their patterns
And the day has made his journey
And we wonder just what happened
To the life we knew
Before the world changed
When not a thing I held was true
But you were kind to me
And you reminded me

That the world is not my playground
There are other things that matter
What is simple needs protecting
My illusions all would shatter
But you stayed in my corner
The only world I knew was upside down
And now the world and me
Know you carried me

You see the patterns in the big sky
Those constellations look like you and I
Just like the patterns in the big sky
We could be lost we could refuse to try
But you made it through
In the dark night
Who would those lucky guys turn out to be?
But that unusual blend
Of my funny friend and me

I'm not as clever as I thought I was
I'm not the boy I used to be because
You showed me something different
You showed me something pure
I always seemed so certain
But I was really never sure
But you stayed
And you called my name
When others would have walked out on a lousy game
And look who made it through
But your funny friend and you

You see the patterns in the big sky
Those constellations look like you and I
That tiny planet and the bigger guy
I don't know whether I should laugh or cry

Just like the patterns in the big sky
We'll be together 'til the end this time
Don't know the answer or the reason why
We'll stick together 'til that day we die

If I had to do this all a second time
I won't complain or make a fuss
Who would the angels send?
But that unlikely blend
Of those two funny friends
That's us

The Emperor's New Groove Soundtrack
(c) 2000 Walt Disney Records

My One And Only Love

Written by Robert Mellin & Guy Wood

The very thought of you makes
My heart sing
Like an April breeze
On the wings of spring
And you appear in all your splendor
My one and only love

The shadows fall
And spread their mystic charms
In the hush of night
While you're in my arms
I feel your lips so warm and tender
My one and only love

The touch of your hand is like heaven
A heaven that I've never known
The blush on your cheek
Whenever I speak
Tells me that you are my own

You fill my eager heart with
Such desire
Every kiss you give
Sets my soul on fire
I give myself in sweet surrender
My one and only love

The blush on your cheek
Whenever I speak
Tells me that you are my own
You fill my eager heart with
Such desire
Every kiss you give
Sets my soul on fire
I give myself in sweet surrender
My one and only love

My one and only love

Leaving Las Vegas - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(c) 1995 Pangea Records

Need Your Love So Bad

Written by Fleetwood Mac

Need someone's hands to help me through the night
Need someone's arms to hold and squeeze me tight
'Cause when the night begins and I'm at an end
That's when I need your love so bad

Need your sweet voice to whisper in my ear
Need your gentle fingertips babe to wipe away my tears
Cause when the lights are low and it's time to go
That's when I need your love so bad

Why don't you give it up
And bring it all back home to me baby
Write it on a piece of me paper
So it can be read to me
Tell me that you love me
Cause you're almost driving me mad
Oh, because I need, I need your love so bad

Need your sweet voice to help me through the night
You don't have to worry baby
Cause you know everything is gonna be all right
When the lights are low and it's time to go
That's when I need your love so bad

I need...

Why don't you give it up
And bring it all back home to me baby
Write it on a piece of me paper
So it can be read to me
Tell me that you love me
Cause you're almost driving me mad
Oh, because I need, I need your love so bad

Need your sweet lips to help me through the night
You don't have to worry baby
Cause you know everything is gonna be all right
Listen to my plea bring it to me

Because I need your love so bad

From the film Party Party

Ne Me Quitte Pas

Written by Jacques Brel

Ne me quitte pas
Il faut oublier
Tout peut s'oublier
Qui s'enfuit dйjа
Oublier le temps
Des malentendus
Et le temps perdu
A savoir comment
Oublier ces heures
Qui tuaient parfois
A coup de pourquoi
Le coeur du bonheur

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Moi je t'offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays
Oщ il ne pleut pas
Je creuserai la terre
Jusqu'aprйs ma mort
Pour couvrir ton corpos
D'or et de lumiиre
Je ferai un domaine
Oщ l'amour sera roi
Oщ l'amour sera loi
Oщ je serais reine

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Ne me quitte pas
Je t'inventerai
Des mots insensйs
Que tu comprendras
Je te parlerai
De ces amants-lа
Qui ont vu deux fois
Leurs coeurs s'embraser
Je te raconterai
L'histoire de ce roi
Mort de n'avoir pas
Pu te rencontrer

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

On a vu souvent
Rejaillir le feu
De l'ancien volcan
Il est, parait-il
Des terres brыlйes
Donnant plus de blй
Qu'un meilleur avril
Et quand vient le soir
Pour qu'un ciel flamboie
Le rouge et le noir
Ne s'йpousent-ils pas?

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Ne me quitte pas
Je ne vais plus pleurer
Je ne vais plus parler
Je me cacherais lа
A te regarder
Danser et sourire
Et а t'йcouter
Chanter et puis rire
Laisse-moi devenir
L'ombre de ton ombre
L'ombre de ta main
L'ombre de ton chien

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Sting: Covering 'em (1993)

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Written by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin

The man who only lives for making money
Lives a life that isn't necessarily sunny.
Likewise the man who works for fame,
There's no guarantee that time won't erase his name.
The fact is, the only work that really brings enjoyment
Is the kind that is girl and boy meant,
Fall in love you won't regret it,
That's the best work of all if you can get it.

Holding hands at midnight
'Neath a starry sky,
Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try.
Strolling with the one girl,
Sighing sigh after sigh,
Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try.
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door,
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you,
And then taking that vow,
Nice work if you can get it,
And if you get it,
Oh won't you tell me how?

Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door,
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?

Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try.
Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try.

Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door,
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you,
And then taking that vow,
Nice work if you can get it,
And if you get it,
Oh won't you tell me how?

The Glory Of Gershwin
(c) 1994 Phonogram Ltd. (London)

Nuclear Waste

Madam I'd like to assure you that this little
Domestic reactor will never cause you any trouble
Nuclear Waste - we don't want that
Nuclear Waste - we don't need that
Atomic Power - we've got to leave this
Nuclear Age behind in our t-t-time

A faste breeder breaks all the rules
Gives us something for nothing - that ain't true
And who makes the profit? - not me and you
And who runs the risks? - we all do!

Nuclear Fear - we don't want that
Nuclear Waste - we can't get rid of that
Nuclear Power - you're hoping we'll get used to it
Nuclear Accidents - I've had enough of it.

Do you find it attractive to be radioactive
Emitting killing rays?
Splitting your atoms with a fission reaction
Transmitting out of phase?

Strontium 90
I wanna live to see 1999
There's enough energy in the air and in the sea
To give us Power to live Peace and Harmony

Nuclear Waste - we don't get used to your
Nuclear Waste - Ultimate pollution
Radiation - produces mutation
Disintegration - it's not evolution
Nuclear Children - you have the sollution

New Killer Waste - better active today

Than radioactive tomorrow
New Killer Waste - need a cure for cancer?
Or you field - need the real answer
Or maybe solar - fusion nor fission
Oh darling! - let me put my arms around you

Nuclear Waste - jamming my transmission
Nuclear Waste - damaging my vision
Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste (1995)

One Day She'll Love Me

Written by Sting and David Hartley

I'd never imagined before
That the world could be turned on it's head
I'd never have thought
To be here in this place
I'd never have dreamt that in love
I'd be lost and so easily led
I guess I was caught
By that hint of a smile on her face

I thought I was happy before
When my life was as easy as pie
But that was the past
Of an ignorant youth
I'm falling in love with the girl
But I'm forced to be living a lie
And she'd never love me
If she knew the truth

Is it asking too much
If I pray for a miracle, miracle
That one day she'll love me
One day she'll say I care

Although he's changing day by day
He finds these tender words of love
Impossible to say
He walks in the room
And I'm never quite sure
If he's trying to be somebody else
I'm liking him better that he's
Not his arrogant self
Perhaps I'm expecting too much
Of a miracle, miracle
One day he'll love me
One day he'll say I love you
And I will love him until I die

Distant Star
Cast your light
On my life

And one by one
I didn't anticipate feeling the power of love
In this way

And day by day
We've never been closer than this
And I find myself daring to pray

We'll find these tender ways of love
Impossible to disobey

One day she'll love me

One day he'll say I love you

And I will love her

Until the moment
Our hearts stop beating
And we are light

The Emperor's New Groove Soundtrack
(c) 2000 Walt Disney Records

Purple Haze

Written by Jimi Hendrix

Purple haze are in my brain,
Lately things don't seem to be the same,
Actin' funny but I don't know why
'scuse me while kiss the sky.

Purple haze all around,
Don't know if I'm coming up or down.
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me.

Purple haze are in my eyes,
Don't know if it's day or night,
You've got me blowing, blowing my mind
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

Purple haze...

Sting: Covering 'em (1993)

'Round Midnight

Written by Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams & Thelonious Monk

It begins to tell
At sometime 'round midnight
I do pretty well
Till after sundown
At supper time I'm feeling blue
But I really miss you
'Round midnight

Memories return
At sometime round midnight
I have yet to learn
To stop those memories
When my heart is still with you
And old midnight
Knows it too

Did it mean that our love would be ending
When some quarrel we had needed mending
Darling I need you
But lately I find
You're out of my arms
Out of my mind

Let our love take wing
Some midnight, round midnight
And let the angels sing
At your returning
Let our love be safe and sound
When old midnight
Comes around

Let our love take wing
Some midnight, round midnight
Let the angels sing
At your returning
Let our love be safe and sound
When old midnight
Comes around

Andy Summers: Green Chimneys - The Music Of Thelonious Monk
(c) 1999 RCA/Victor/BMG Entertainment

She Walks This Earth

Written by Ivan Lins, Vitor Martins, Chico Cesar and Brenda Russell

She's a soulful flower in the garden
She's bobbing in the sunlight
And flirting with her eyes
The way she walks by
I see a wave of colour
Moving like an angel
Trailing butterflies

Give me water
Give me inspiration
I want to speak now, but I can't find a word
So unforgiving is my infatuation
Now that I know she walks upon the Earth
She walks this Earth

I am restless and burning with desire
And every other heartbeat I beat just for her
I see her smiling
Full is my emotion
This is no illusion
But how can I be heard?

Give me water
Give me inspiration
I want to speak now, but I can't find a word
So unforgiving is this infatuation
Now that I know she walks upon this Earth
She walks this Earth
She walks this Earth

Give me water
Give me inspiration
I need to hold her like no one else before
So unforgiving is my infatuation
Now that I know she walks upon the Earth
She walks this Earth
She walks this Earth
She walks this Earth

A Love Affair - The Music Of Ivan Lins
(c) 2000 Published by Telarc International Corporation

Sisters Of Mercy

Written by Leonard Cohen

Oh, the sisters of mercy
They are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me
When I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort
And later they brought me this song
Oh, I hope you run into them
You who've been travelling so long

Yes, you who must leave everything
That you cannot control
It begins with your family
But soon it comes around to your soul
Well I've been where you're hanging
I think I can see how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy
Your loneliness says that you've sinned

Oh, well they lay down beside me
I made my confession to them
They touched both my eyes
And I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf
That the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love
That is graceful and green as a stem
Oh...

When I left they were sleeping
I hope you run into them soon
Don't turn on the lights
You can read their address by the moon
And you won't make me jealous
If I hear that they sweetened your night
We weren't lovers like that
And besides it would still be all right
Oh oh oh oh oh oh...

Tower Of Song - The Songs Of Leonard Cohen (1995)

Someone To Watch Over Me

Written by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin

There's a saying old says that love is blind,
Still were often told, "seek and you shall find";
So I'm going to seek a certain girl I've had in mind.
Looking everywhere, haven't found her yet;
She's the big affair I cannot forget.
Only girl I ever think of with regret.
I'd like to add her initial to my monogram.
Tell me, where is the shepherdess for this lost lamb?

There's a somebody I'm longing to see:
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me.
I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood:
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me.
Although I may not be the man some girls think of as handsome
To her heart I carry the key
Won't you tell her please to put on some speed, follow my lead.
Oh, how I need someone who'll watch over me.

There's a somebody I'm longing to see:
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone who to watch over me.

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood:
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me.

Although I may not be the man some girls think of as handsome
To her heart I carry the key
Won't you tell her please to put on some speed, follow my lead.
Oh, how I need someone to watch over me.

Englishman In New York single
(c) 1988 A&M Records, Inc.

Spread A Little Happiness

Written by Vivian Ellis, Clifford Grey & Greatrex Newman

Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky
You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry
Spread a little happiness as you go by
Please try

What's the use of worrying and feeling blue
When days are long keep on smiling through
Spread a little happiness till dreams come true

Surely you'll be wise to make the best of every blues day
Don't you realize you'll find next monday or next tuesday
Your golden shoes day

Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky
You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry
Spread a little happiness as you go by

I've got a creed for every need
So easy that it must succeed
I'll set it down for you to read
So please, take heed
Keep out the gloom
Let in the sun
That's my advice for everyone
It's only once we pass this way
So day by day

Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky
You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry
Spread a little happiness as you go by
Please try

What's the use of worrying and feeling blue
When days are long keep on smiling through
Spread a little happiness till dreams come true

Surely you'll be wise to make the best of every blues day
Don't you realize you'll find next monday or next tuesday
Your golden shoes day

Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky
You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry
Spread a little happiness as you go by

(whistling solo)

Surely you'll be wise to make the best of every blues day
Don't you realize you'll find next monday or next tuesday
Your golden shoes day

Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky
You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry
Spread a little happiness as you go by

Brimstone & Treacle Original Soundtrack
(c) 1982 A&M Records, Inc.

Strange Fruit

Written by Lewis Allan

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,
And the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

Sting & Gil Evans: Strange Fruit
(c) 1997 By Records

Take Me To The Sunshine

Written by Sting

I've been working too hard at the office all year
I've been saving all my days for a break
So I've got to get away with my baby for a time
If it's just for my sanity's sake

Nothing but work and never to play
Make Jack a dull boy or so they say
And nothing in the world gonna make me stay
I've just got to get away for a day

Oh the smog in the city is clogging up my head
And the noise of the traffic and the poison lead
Too many people I must confess
I'm looking for the cure of terminal stress

Take me to the sunshine
Take me to the sun

It's a perfect paradise and it ain't no trick
You can walk, you can run, play golf 'til you're sick
Swim all day, you can dance all night
You can ever fall in love if you're feeling right

The surf will roar and the birds will sing
And the warm wind sighs as you practice your swing
And the cares of the world will fade away as you
Watch the sun setting on a golden bay

They say that modern man needs to find himself
And what's bad for his spirit is bad for his health
And when the world's used up and there's nowhere else
You'll realize Mother Nature is the Commonwealth

Take me to the sunshine
Take me to the sun
Take me to the sun

Take me to the sunshine
Take me to the sun
Take me to the sun...

I've been working too hard at the office all year
I've been saving all my days for a break
So I've got to get away with my baby for a time
If it's for my sanity's sake

When We Dance single
(c) 1994 A&M Records, Inc.

Tempted

Written by Glenn Tillbrook & Chris Difford

I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a flannel for my face
Pajamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case
I said to my reflection, let's get out of this place
Passed the church and the steeple, the laundry on the hill
Billboards and the buildings
Memories of it still keep calling
And calling
But forget it all I know I will

Tempted by the fruit of another
Tempted but the truth is discovered
What's been going on
Now that you have gone
There's no other
Tempted by the fruit of another
Tempted but the truth is discovered

I'm at the carpark, the airport, the baggage carousel
The people keep on grabbing, ain't wishing I was well
I said, "It's no occasion, it's no story I can tell"
At my bedside, empty pocket, a foot without a sock
Your body gets much closer
I fumble for the clock, alarmed by
The seduction
I wish that it would stop

Tempted by the fruit of another
Tempted but the truth is discovered
What's been going on
Now that you have gone there's no other
Tempted by the fruit of another
Tempted but the truth is discovered

I bought a novell, some perfume, a fortune all for you
But it's not my conscience that hates to be untrue
I asked of my reflection
Tell me what is there to do

Tempted by the fruit of another
Tempted but the truth is discovered
What's been going on
Now that you have gone there's no other
Tempted by the fruit of another
Tempted but the truth is discovered

Sting: Covering 'em (1993)

The Idiot Bastard Son

Written by Frank Zappa

The idiot bastard son
The father's a nazi
In Congress today
The mother's a hooker
Somewhere in L.A.

The idiot bastard son
Abandoned to perish
In back of a car
Kenny will stash him away
In a jar

The idiot boy!
Trying imagine all window are covered in green
All the time he would spend
At the church he'd attend
Warming his pew

Kenny will feed him and Ronnie will watch
The child will thrive and grow
And enter the world
Of liars and cheaters and people like you
Who smile and think they know
What this is about
You think you know
Everything maybe so
The song we sing, do you know?
We're listening

The idiot boy!
Trying imagine all window are covered in green
All the time he would spend
All the colors he'd blend
Where are they now?

Sting: Covering 'em (1993)

The Mighty

Written by Sting and Trevor Jones

Walking this high road are warriors from an olden time
Curse on this land and the days far behind us
Dragons we've slain, rescued many maiden's fair
And no man ever dared break our stride or the brotherhood that binds us.

Brothers are we, marching on the roads of time
From this broken land and the days that defined us
All men are free, justice is a sword we hold
Trusting in the knights noble vow in the brotherhood that binds us.

When the broken are strong (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)
When the beaten are proud (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)
When the twisted can stand (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)
When the silenced can laugh (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)
When the haunted have turned (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)
When the tortured are sane (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)
When the blinded still stare (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)
When will the poison remain (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)
When the voiceless can sing (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)
And the shackled can run (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)
And the downtrodden man holds his face to the sun (Freak the mighty, freak the mighty)

We'll be walking high above the world.
Our legend will say ay ay ay ay ay

Freak the mighty...

The Mighty Original Movie Soundtrack
(c) 1998 Ark21

The Pirate's Bride

Written by Sting

Sometimes in the light at the edge of the world
Is the ghost of a ship with it's black sail furled
And night after night she would stand on the shore
And dream of the love that she knew before

The tide rolls out, the tide rolls in
Without a thought for the ways of men

We set sail for the Spanish Main
To rob the ships of the Queen of Spain
And she would be his pirate's bride
She gave him the pistol and the sword at his side

The tide rolls out, the tide rolls in
Without a care for the ways of men
I'd give three ships of Spanish gold
To see my love again

Full fathom five my true love lies
In a fine wooden casket with gold on his eyes
Where is the glory and where is the pride?
Where is the joy for the pirate's bride?

The tide rolls out, the tide rolls in
Without a care for the ways of men

Here in the light at the edge of the world
He'd wait for a ship with it's black sail furled
And day after day he would stand on the shore
And dream of the life that he knew before

The tide rolls out, the tide rolls in
Without a care for the ways of men
I'd give three ships of Spanish gold
To see my love again

I Was Brought To My Senses single
(c) 1996 A&M Records, Inc.

There Comes A Time

Written by Tony Williams

There comes a time when you were to be older
There comes a time when you want to be bolder
I love you more when it's over
I love you more when it's over

There comes a time when you're careful
There comes a time when you're doubtful
I love you more when you're spiteful
I love you more when you're spiteful

Sting & Gil Evans: Strange Fruit
(c) 1997 By Records

The Wind Cries Mary

Written by Jimi Hendrix

After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness
Staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary

A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind cries Mary

The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow
And shine the emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life they'd lived is dead
And the wind screams Mary

Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past
With its crutch, its old age and its wisdom
It whispers "No, this will be the last"
And the wind cries Mary

In From The Storm - The Music Of Jimi Hendrix
(c) 1995 BMG/RCA Victor

This Cowboy Song

Written by Sting

We rode all night across an endless desert
We had no moon to light our way
And though a billion stars were slowly turning
We lacked the consciences to pray

Our horses running like devil chasers
Those feet they hardly touched the ground
Yes, I'm familiar with the grey wolves howling
But I'm certain I never heard this sound

Devil to pay
On judgement day
Would Jesus strike me down
If I should pray this cowboy song

It's all I know
To bring me back into your arms
Your distant sun
Your shining light
You'll be my dog star shining
Tonight

I've been the lowest of the low on the planet
I've been a sinner all my days
And I was living with my hand on the trigger
I had no sense to change my ways

The priest asked if I'd embrace the resurrection
To suck the poison from my life
Just like an existential cowboy villain
His words were balanced on my knife

Devil to pay
On judgement day
Would Jesus strike me down
If I should pray

This cowboy song
It's all I know
To bring me back into your arms
Your distant sun
Your shining light
You'll be my dog star shining
Tonight

Every night
Every night
All my distances afar

This cowboy song
It's all I know
To bring me back into your arms
This cowboy song
This cowboy life
I'll be your dog star shining
Tonight

Dog star...

Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting 1984-1994
(c) 1994 A&M Records, Inc.

This Was Never Meant To Be

Written by Sting & Anne Dudley

This was never meant to be
All the signs were there to see
From the first moment that we met I knew
This was never meant to be

This was always doomed to fail
From the moment we set sail
All our instincts told us we were wrong
This was never meant to be

But soon we were enraptured in love's dance
When the dance ended I found
I couldn't live without you
And now one of my dreams is sad embers
Here in the cold of December
And now you're in the arms of someone else
I always knew that

This was always second best
Our love would fall at the first test
Common sense would tell us we were wrong
This was never meant to be

This was never meant to last
We drank our cup of love too fast
From the first moment that we met I knew
Now Miss, from our first kiss
I tell you: this was never meant to be

I Was Brought To My Senses single
(c) 1996 A&M Records, Inc.

Three Steps To Heaven

Written by Eddie Cochran

Now there are three steps to heaven
Just listen and you will plainly see
And as I travel on and things go wrong
Just call it steps one, two and three.

The formula for heaven's very simple.
Just follow the rules and you will see
And as I travel on and things go wrong
Just call it steps one, two and three.

Step one, you find a girl to love.
Step two, she falls in love with you
Step three, you kiss and hold her tightly
Yeah, that sure seems like heaven to me.

From The Film Radio On (1979)

Tutti Frutti

Written by R. Penniman, D. La Bostrie & Joe Lubin

A bop bop aloom op a lop bop boom
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
A bop bop aloom op a lop bop boom

I got a gal her name's Sue,
She knows just what to do
I got a gal her name's Sue,
She knows just what to do
I've been to the East, I've been to the West
But she is the gal I love the best
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
A bop bop aloom op a lop bop boom

I got a gal, her name's Daisy,
She almost drives me crazy
I got a gal, her name's Daisy,
She almost drives me crazy
She's a real gone cuckoo, yes sirree
But pretty little Suzy's the gal for me

Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
Tutti frutti au rutti
A bop bop aloom op a lop bop boom

From the film Party Party

Up From The Skies (Exp)

Written by Jimi Hendrix

Let me talk to you
Let me talk to you
Let me talk to you
Let me talk to you

I say let me talk to you, uh
I say...

I just wanna talk to you
I don't wanna do you no harm
I just wanna hear about your different lives
And just where people farm
I heard some of you got your families
Living in cages tall and cold
And some just stay there and dust away
Past the age of old.
Is this true?
Please let me talk to you.

I just wanna know about
The rooms behind your mind
Uh do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind?
Or is it just the remains or vibrations
And echoes long ago?
And things like "love the world"
And "let your fancy flow"
Is this true?
Please let me talk to you.

I want to see and hear everything
I want to see and hear everything, yeah
Let me talk to you

I have been here before
The days of ice
And of course this is why
I'm so concerned
I've come back to find
The stars misplaced
The smell of a world
That is burning, yeah

The smell of the world
That is burnin', burnin', uh

I have been here before
The days of ice
And of course this is why
I'm so concerned
I've come back to find, babe

Where do I purchase my ticket?
I just want to have a ringside seat
I want to hear about the new Mother Earth
I want to see and hear everything
I want to see and hear everything
Let me talk to you
Let me talk to you
Let me talk to you
I wanna talk to you
I wanna talk to you
I wanna talk to you, babe
I wanna talk to you...

Uh do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind?
Or is it just the remains or vibrations
And echoes long ago?
And things like "love the world"
And "let your fancy flow"
Is this true?
Please let me talk to you.

I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything, yeah
Let me talk to you

The smell of the world
That is burnin', yeah

I have been here before
The days of ice
And of course this is why
I'm so concerned
I've come back to find, yeah, yeah

Where do I purchase my ticket?
I just want to have a ringside seat
I want to hear about the new Mother Earth
I want to see and hear everything
I want to see and hear everything
Let me talk to you, yeah
Let me talk to you
Let me talk to you, yeah
Let me talk to you
I wanna talk to you
I wanna talk to you
I wanna talk to you
I wanna talk to you
I wanna talk to you...

Sting & Gil Evans: Strange Fruit
(c) 1997 By Records

Waters Of Tyne

(Traditional)

I cannot get to my love if I would die;
The water of Tyne runs between her and me
And here I must stand with a tear in my e'e,
Both sighing and sickly, my sweetheart to see.

I cannot get to my love, if I would die;
The water of Tyne runs between her and me
And here I must stand with a tear in my e'e,
Both sighing and sickly my sweetheart to see.

Oh, where is the boatman, my bonny hinny?
Oh, where is the boatman? Bring him to me,
To ferry me over the Tyne to my honey,
And I will remember the boatman and thee.

Oh, bring me a boatman, I'll give any money,
And you for your troubles rewarded shall be,
To ferry me over the Tyne to my honey,
Or scull her across that rough river to me.

Carnival!
(c) 1997 RCA/Victor/BMG Classics

We're Sending Our Love Down The Well

There's a hole in my heart,
As deep as a well,
For that poor little boy,
Who's stuck halfway to hell.

Though we can't get him out,
We'll do the next best thing,
We go on TV,
And sing, sing, sing.

And we're sending our love down the well,
All the way down.
We're sending our love down the well,
Down that well.

From the TV show The Simpsons

When We Dance

Written by Sting

If he loved you
Like I love you
I would walk away in shame
I'd move town, I'd change my name

When he watches you
When he comes to buy your soul
On your hand his golden rings
Like he owns the bird that sings

When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings

The priest has said my soul
Salvation is in the balance of the angels
And underneath the wheels of passion
I keep my faith in my fashion

When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings
(Oooh) I'm still in love with you

When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings
I'm gonna find a place to live
Give you all I've got to give
I'm gonna love you more than life
If you'll only be my wife
I'm gonna love you night and day
I'm gonna try in every way
When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings
I'm gonna find a place to live
Give you all I've got to give
I would love you more than life
If you'll only be my wife

If I could break down these walls
And shout my name at heaven's gate
I'd take these hands
And I'd destroy the dark machineries of fate,
Cathedrals are broken
Heaven's no longer above
Hellfire's a promise away
I'd still be saying
I'm still in love
Still in love
Still in love
Still in love...

He won't love you
Like I love you
He won't care for you this way
He'll mistreat you with disdain

Come and live with me
We'll have children of our own
I would love you more than life
If you'll come and be my wife

When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings
I'm gonna love you more than life
If you'll only be my wife
I'm gonna love you night and day
I'm gonna try in every way
When we dance
Angels will run and hide their wings
I'm gonna find a place to live
Give you all I've got to give
I would love you more than life
If you'll only be my wife...

When we dance...

I had a dream last night
Dreamt you were by my side
Walking with me baby
My heart was filled with pride
I had a dream last night...

Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting 1984-1994
(c) 1994 A&M Records, Inc.

Where Will You Be For Christmas

Written by Narada Michael Walden

Where will you be for Christmas
Out in the falling snow
Where will you be for Christmas
I'd just like to know

Love is a gift on Christmas
Making your house a home
You're breaking the heart of Christmas
If you spend it alone

Do you think of other years
Full of smiles instead of tears
When life was fair and hope was high
In a world of love
You can feel the hope again
Let it hold you like a friend
The bells ring
My heart sings

Where will you be for Christmas
Dream where you want to be
Where will you be for Christmas
Please spend it with me

Where will you be...

I remember other years
Full of smiles instead of tears
When life was fair and hope was high
In a world of love
I can feel this hope again
Pray it holds me like a friend forever
And ever

Where will you be for Christmas
I know where I want to be
Where will you be for Christmas
Please spend it
With me
Please spend it with me
Please spend it with me
Please spend it with me
Please spend it with me, baby
Please spend it with me

Where will you be for Christmas

Music Of Love
(c) 2000 Unicef

Windmills Of Your Mind

Written by Alan Bergman, Michel Jean Legrand & Marilyn Bergman

Round,
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half-forgotten dream
Like the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly?
Was it something that you said?
Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Was the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
And the fragment of this song
Half-remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the colour of her hair?

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Pictures hanging in a hallway
And the fragment of this song
Half-remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the colour of her hair?

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Brand New Day single
(c) 1999 A&M Records, Inc.

You Were Meant For Me

Written by Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown

Life was a song
You came along
I lay awake the whole night through

If I should dare
To think you care
This is what I'd say to you:

You were meant for me
And I was meant for you

Nature fashioned you
And when she was done
You were all those good things
Rolled into one

You're like a plaintive melody
That never lets me be
I'm content the angels must have sent you
And they meant you just for me

You're like a plaintive melody
That never lets me be
I'm content the angels must have sent you
And they meant you just for me

1999 Grammy Nominees
(c) 1999 Grammy Recordings

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Videos Part 1 & Nothing Like The Sun [VIDEO]

Video Tracks

 

 

 

 

MTV Unplugged [VIDEO]

Format: Audio CD
Release Date: 11/03/1992
Label: A&M Records

Tracks

 

Концерт Стинга в Москве НТВ (tv)

1. A Thousand Years  177

2. If you love somebody

3. After The Rain Has Fallen

4. Perfect Love...Gone Wrong

5. Seven Days

6. Что-то кантри

7. Every little thing she does is magic

8. ?

9. Moon Over Bourbon Street

10. Englishmen in New York

11. Brand New Day

12. Tomorrow We'll See

13. Every breath you take

14. Lithium Sunset

15. Message in the bottle (sending out an S.O.S)

16. Fragile

Film

DATE FILM'S TITLE

1979 "Quadrophenia"

1980 "Radio On"

1981 "Artemis 81"

1982 "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle"

1982 "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball"

1982 "Brimstone and Treacle"

1984 "Dune"

1985 "The Bride"

1985 "Plenty"

1985 "Bring On The Night"

1987 "Julia and Julia"

1988 "Stormy Monday"

1989 "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"

1997 "Gentleman Don't Eat Poets"

1998 "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"

 

WWW

http://www.stingchronicity.co.uk/

http://www.sting.com/

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[1] * Книга Криса Уэлча написана до выхода пятого студийного альбома Стинга 'Mercury Falling'. - Примеч. пер.

[2] * Дежа вю (deja vu - фр.) - навязчивое ощущение 'припоминания' событий, в действительности происходящих впервые. - Примеч. пер.

[3] * Название альбома - цитата из первой строки 130 сонета шекспира: 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun' ('Глаза ее ничем не схожи с солнцем'). - Примеч. пер.

[4] * Скраббл (scrabble) - настольная игра, заключающаяся в составлении слов из случайного набора букв, аналогичная нашей игре 'Эрудит'-Примеч. пер.

[5] прил. 1) бесполезный, напрасный, тщетный It's futile to speculate about what might have been. - Бессмысленно рассуждать о том, что могло бы произойти. Syn: useless, unavailing

[6] fruition n. (realization) осуществление; come to fruition осуществляться, -иться; сбываться, -ыться.

[7] subjugate v.t. (enslave) порабощать, -тить; (subdue) покорять, -ить; (subject) подчинять, -ить.

[8] truce n. перемирие; (respite) передышка; (fig., liter.): a truce to jesting! довольно шуток!

[9] mines копи

[10] encircled обведенный

[11] trench n. ров, канава; (mil.) окоп, траншея; trench coat шинель; trench fever сыпной тиф; trench foot траншейная стопа; trench mortar миномёт; trench warfare окопная война. v.t. (make trenches in) перекапывать, -опать.

[12] chazm n. бездна, пропасть (also fig.).

[13] battlement сущ.; часто мн. 1) зубчатая стена; зубцы (стен, башен); стена с бойницами (использовавшаяся для обороны)

[14] tattered прил. а) оборванный, изорванный, в лохмотьях Syn: ragged

[15] solace  1. сущ.  утешение; смягчение (боли, страдания и т.п.)  Time brought no solace to her widowed heart. - Время не принесло утешения ее обездоленному сердцу.  Syn:  comfort 1., consolation; alleviation  2. гл.  1) утешать; успокаивать  Syn:  cheer I 2., comfort 2., console I

[16] mast    I сущ.; с.-х.  плодокорм  II  1. сущ.  мачта; лес, из которого делают мачты    to serve/sail before the mast - служить простым матросом  to nail one's colours to the mast - открыто отстаивать свои убеждения  2. гл.  ставить мачту  one-masted - одномачтовый

[17] sordid  прил.  1)  а) грязный, запачканный; гноящийся  б) перен. отвратительный, омерзительный, противный    Syn:  filthy  2) нищенский; жалкий; бедный, убогий  Syn:  pitiable, pitiful, squalid  3) низкий, подлый, постыдный; низменный  Syn:  ignoble, mean  4) корыстный; скаредный; жадный, алчный  sordid motives - корыстные цели  Syn:  covetous, avaricious

[18] oppression  сущ.  1) гнет, иго, притеснение, угнетение  Syn:  depression, press, pressure, weight, burden  2) угнетенность; подавленность  Syn:  depression, blues

[19] mild    прил.  1) (о человеке, его характере и поведении)  а) редк. кроткий, сострадательный, милосердный  Syn:  kind II, considerate, gracious 1., merciful, indulgent  б) тихий, спокойный, нераздражительный  He has a mild disposition. - У него мягкий, спокойный характер.  2) мягкий, спокойный (о взгляде, речи и т. п.)  mild eye - спокойный взгляд  mild answer - спокойный ответ  But this language is too mild for the occasion. - Но для этого случая эти слова слишком мягкие.  Syn:  soft 1., gentle 1.

[20] scarcity  сущ.  1) недостаток, нехватка (чего-л. - of)  Syn:  dearth  2) редкость

[21] convince    гл.  1) убеждать, уверять (в чем-л. - of)  We were able to convince the students of the need for wider reading. - Нам удалось убедить студентов в необходимости привлекать больше литературы.  Syn:  persuade  2) доводить до сознания (ошибку, проступок и т. п.)

[22] 3) взрывать  to blow up the hell - перевернуть все вверх дном  The soldiers blew up the enemy bridge. - Солдаты взорвали вражеский мост.

[23] fixed  прил.  1) неподвижный, постоянный; закрепленный; стационарный  two fixed pieces of wood - два прикрепленных/закрепленных куска дерева  2) неизменный, постоянный; непреложный; твердый  For all persecution he felt a fixed aversion. - Он испытывал постоянное отвращение ко всем преследованиям.  He regarded her with a fixed attention. - Он смотрел на нее с пристальным вниманием.  fixed idea - навязчивая идея  fixed fact - точно установленный факт  Syn:  immutable  3) неподвижный; застывший (о взгляде, выражении лица и т.п.)

[24] despise    гл.  презирать, относиться с презрением (за что-л. - for)  to despise utterly - совершенно презирать  I despised him for his cowardice - я презирал его за трусость  Syn:  abhor, disdain, loathe, scorn  Ant:  adore, appreciate, like, love, respect, admire

[25] anguish  1. сущ.  боль, мука, страдание, мучение; тоска  anguish of body and mind - физические и душевные страдания  Syn:  misery  2. гл.  испытывать острую тоску, страдание, мучить(ся)

[26] unsaid  прил.  невысказанный, непроизнесенный  to leave smth. unsaid - оставить что-л. недосказанным, умолчать о чем-л.  Half his tale he left unsaid. - Половину своей истории он не рассказал.  Syn:  unvoiced, unexpressed

[27] sown  1) высеянный  2) засеянный  3) усеянный    - sown area

[28] crop  3)  а) прям. перен. урожай, жатва; посев  The ice-crop of Arctic ocean. - Годовой объем льдов в Северном Ледовитом океане.  The annual academical crop of beardless youths. - Ежегодный школьный урожай из безбородых юнцов.  - heavy crop  - crop failure  - land under crop  - land out of crop  - crop duster  Syn:  harvest

[29] wages  сущ.; мн.  заработок, доход, вознаграждение  Syn:  earnings, gainings

[30] Flow 2. гл.  1) струиться, течь  to flow from, out of - литься из  water flowed from the pipe - вода лилась из трубы  to flow from smth. to smth. - течь откуда-то куда-то  the river flows from east to west - река течет с востока на запад  to flow into, to - впадать в  rivers flow into the sea - реки впадают в море  Syn:  pour 1., run 2., stream 2.  Ant:  stand, stagnate  2) прибывать (обыкн. о приливной волне)  the tide ebbs and flows - вода во время прилива убывает и прибывает  Syn:  rise 2.  3)  а) хлынуть, лить потоком  His tears flowed plentifully and bitterly. - Горькие слезы хлынули у него потоком.  The years flow away. - Годы уплывают.  Syn:  gush 2., spout 2., spurt 2., well I 2.  б) заливать, затоплять  Syn:  flood 2.

[31] flesh    1. сущ.  1) тело  proud flesh - масса избыточных грануляций на раневой поверхности; дикое мясо  Syn:  body 1.  2) полнота  in flesh - в теле, полный  to lose flesh - худеть  to make flesh, gain flesh, put on flesh - полнеть  3) мясо (пища)  4) мякоть, мясо (плода)  5)  а) плоть (физическая составляющая человека в отличие от духовной)  to mortify the flesh - умерщвлять плоть  The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. - Дух бодр, плоть же немощна. (Матф. 26:41)  one flesh - муж и жена (как единое целое)  б) человечество  Syn:  mankind  в) все живущее, смертные  all flesh - все живое  г) род, семья, родственники  one's own flesh and blood - собственная плоть и кровь, собственные дети  Syn:  stock 1., kindred 1.  6) субстанция  insights buried in the flesh of the narrative - озарения, скрытые в глубине повествования  Syn:  substance

[32] Steel 3) холодное оружие; меч, шпага  Syn:  sword, rapier, cold steel arms

[33] stain    1. сущ.  1) пятно  to leave a stain - посадить, оставить пятно  to remove a stain - удалить пятно  stubborn stain - пятно, которое трудно удалить  2) позор, пятно  without a stain - безупречный  Syn:  shame, disgrace, stigma

[34] meant  предназначенный

[35] Clinch 2. гл.  1) забивать гвоздь (не до конца, оставшуюся часть со шляпкой загибают, чтобы надежнее держалось); прибивать гвоздем  2) урегулировать, окончательно решать, улаживать, договариваться  No-one knew how to clinch better a good bargain in his case. - Никто не знал, как лучше заключить сделку в его ситуации.  Syn:  confirm, establish

[36] верфь, судостроительный завод

[37] сущ. клепальщик Syn: clincher

[38] hull II 1. сущ. основной корпус (корабля, танка); тж. каркас, остов (какой-л. громоздкой конструкции)

[39] blot out 1) вычеркивать; стирать 2) перен. заглаживать 3) уничтожать We must blot out the memory of wartime troubles. - Мы должны забыть об ужасах войны. 4) заливать чернилами (чаще случайно) I can't read this letter, the ink has run and blotted out half the words. - Я не могу прочесть это письмо, вместо половины слов - кляксы. 5) закрывать, скрывать, покрывать A cloud has blotted out the moon. - Туча закрыла луну.

[40] desolate 1. прил. 1) одинокий, оставленный всеми, заброшенный A position more desolate than his had been can hardly be imagined. - Состояние большего одиночества, чем его, трудно было себе представить. Syn: solitary, lonely 2) пустынный, необитаемый а) безлюдный, безжизненный, бесплодный б) заброшенный, запущенный, разрушенный; бесплодный в) безрадостный, унылый Syn: uninhabited, desert, derelict, deserted 3) жалкий, несчастный; безутешный Syn: forlorn, disconsolate, wretched

[41] flee гл.; прош. вр. и прич. прош. вр. - fled 1) а) убегать, спасаться бегством (from; out of; away; to) All the animals fled from the fire. - Животные бегом побежали от огня. The prisoners escaped by fleeing from their guards while they were on an outside work party. - Узники сбежали от охраны, когда были на работах под открытым небом. Syn: escape б) искать убежища, пристанища 2) а) исчезать, пропадать Syn: vanish, disappear

[42] trap 2. гл. 1) прям. и перен. ставить ловушки, капканы Syn: capture 2) а) прям. перен. поймать в ловушку (в капкан) б) обманывать, вводить в заблуждение, ловить, заманивать

[43] suspended прил. 1) висящий, подвешенный 2) висячий, подвесной Syn: hanging, pendant

[44] flare 1. сущ. 1) а) яркий, неровный свет, сверкание; вспышка или язык пламени б) перен. вспышка, взрыв (гнева и т. п.) в) внезапный звук, громкий звук Flares were always in the right places, to help build up the pulse. - Пульсирующие звуки были всегда слышны, помогая определить пульс.

[45] acetylene сущ.; хим. ацетилен acetylene welding - ацетиленовая сварка acetylene lamp - карбидная лампа

[46] overlay  1. сущ.  1) что-л. лежащее или находящееся сверху чего-л. другого  а) покрышка; салфетка; покрывало  Syn:  cover, tire  б) верхний слой; аппликация  overlay of fine wood - тонкий слой декоративного дерева  2) шотланд. галстук  3) рисунок, схема на кальке (для работы с топографической картой)  4) полигр. приправка  2. гл.  1) лежать на чем-л., над чем-л.; класть сверху (что-л. на что-л.)  Syn:  overlie  2)  а) покрывать (краской и т. п.), накладывать слой (чего-л.)  overlay wood with gold - покрывать дерево золотой краской  б) перен. затемнять; затушевывать; маскировать  Syn:  conceal, obscure

[47] complexity  сущ.  1) сложность  processing complexity - технологическая сложность  operation complexity - тех. сложность эксплуатации  Syn:  complication  2) что-л. сложное; запутанное дело  3) запутанность, трудность, сложность  Syn:  intricacy    Syn:  complicacy

[48] 3.: nursery school детский сад, детсад; nursery rhyme детские стишки (m. pl.);

[49] ragged adj. 1. (torn, frayed) рваный, потрёпанный; (wearing torn clothes) оборванный.

[50] chivalry n. рыцарство; рыцарское поведение.

[51] despicable adj. презренный.

[52] glum adj. угрюмый.

[53] maiden n. дева. adj. 1. (of a girl) девичий;

[54] barley n. ячмень (m.); hulled barley ячневая крупа;

[55] in vain - напрасно, тщетно; всуе

[56] сущ.; поэт.; шутл. горе, скорбь; бедствие, несчастья - woe is me! - woe be to him! - woe betide him! Syn: grief, sorrow

[57] adj. целомудренный; (of style etc.) строгий.

[58] v.t. & i. каяться (impf.); раскаиваться, -яться (в чём); сокрушаться (impf.) (о чём);

[59] n. (recluse) отшельник (fem. -ца). adj. (secluded) уединённый; (lonely) одинокий; solitary confinement одиночное заключение; (single) единичный, единый; a solitary instance единичный случай; he didn't win a solitary prize он не выиграл ни одного приза.

[60] speak out 1) высказываться Nothing will be done until more women have the courage to speak out. - Ничего нельзя будет сделать до тех пор, пока больше женщин не будут высказывать свои мысли вслух. 2) говорить громко Speak out, we cant hear you. - Пожалуйста, говорите громче, мы не слышим вас. Syn: answer up, speak up 1), talk up 3)

[61] 2. гл. 1) лишать студента права покидать колледж после известного часа (в качестве наказания на какой-л. срок, в Оксфорде и Кембридже)

[62] сущ.; тж. defense 1) а) защита to speak out in defence of justice - высказываться в защиту справедливости best defence is offence - лучшая защита - это нападение

[63] 1. сущ. оскал зубов; усмешка - broad grin - contagious grin - infectious grin - foolish grin - silly grin - sardonic grin Syn: smile 2. гл. скалить зубы; осклабиться; ухмыляться (at) to grin and bear it - скрывать под улыбкой свои переживания she grinned approbation - она одобрительно улыбнулась

[64] б) сленг, перен. отвергнуть статью (наколов ее на штырь, 'отложив в долгий ящик') 6) а) добавить алкоголя в напиток б) перен. оживить, сделать более интересным He spiked the speech with humor. - Он оживил свою речь шуточками. She spiked the broth with peppers. - Она подперчила бульон. Syn: liven 7) ввести (в организм) токсичное вещество при помощи инъекции

[65] сущ.; бот. плющ (обыкновенный) ivy climbs - плющ вьется

[66] 2. гл. 1) а) схватывать, хватать, зажимать (в руке); захватывать to grasp smb. by the arm - схватить кого-л. за руку Syn: clasp, clutch, grab, grip, seize, snatch Ant: abandon, loose, release, relinquish б) хвататься (за что-л. - at, for); тж. перен. I readily grasped at his proposal. - Я с готовностью ухватился за его предложение.

[67] 2. (cards) пика; (pl.) пики, пиковая масть; queen of spades пиковая дама. v.t.: spade up выкопать (pf.).

[68] сущ.; карт. 1) мн. трефы, крест, трефовая масть 2) трефа, карта трефовой масти to play a club - ходить с трефы

[69] б) мн.; карт. бубны to play a diamond - ходить с бубны

[70] гл. 1) скрывать; утаивать, умалчивать (from) You cannot conceal your guilt from the police. - Тебе не удастся убедить полицию, что ты невиновен (букв. Ты не можешь скрыть свою вину от полиции). Syn: to keep close, to keep secret 2) маскировать; прятать, скрывать, утаивать, укрывать The thieves thought that they had concealed the jewels from discovery. - Воры думали, что надежно спрятали бриллианты. Syn: hide

[71] Hound n. 1. (for hunting) охотничья собака; he rides to hounds он охотится на лисиц (с собаками); (coll., any dog) пёс, собака. 2. (despicable man) собака. v.t. (with advs.): hound down выловить (pf.); hound on натравливать, -ить.

[72] haunt n. излюбленное (or часто посещаемое) место; our childhood haunts места, где мы любили бывать в детстве. v.t. & i. неотвязно преследовать (impf.); a haunted house дом с привидениями; a haunting melody навязчивый мотив; she haunts my memory мысль о ней преследует меня.

[73] veil 1. сущ. 1) покрывало; вуаль; чадра, паранджа bridal veil - свадебная вуаль Syn: yashmak

[74] opulent прил. 1) а) богатый, состоятельный; процветающий (в материальном смысле) hoping to marry an opulent widow - желая жениться на богатой вдове to live in opulent comfort - жить припеваючи Syn: wealthy, rich 1., affluent 2. б) прибыльный, доходный Syn: lucrative, profitable 2) а) перен. крупный, пышный (в физическом смысле - о человеке); недюжинный (талант, ум и т. п.) б) пышный, насыщенный; обильный, изобильный; густой, буйный (о растительности, цветах и т. п.) Syn: abundant, plentiful, splendid 3) а) ярких красок и пахучий (о цветке) Syn: splendid. б) напыщенный; цветистый; расцвеченный, украшенный (метафорами и т. п. - о стиле, слоге, языке и т. п.)