For decades, listeners have played it at weddings and dedicated it to loved ones, believing it to be one of the greatest love songs ever recorded. However, the track's creator has long maintained that fans completely misunderstood the lyrics and the story behind them.
"I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly, and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite,” Sting told BBC Radio, as reported by Ultimate Classic Rock.
He told CBS Mornings that the song is believed to be a "very romantic love song. Or its about a stalker."
"Which I think gives it its power," Sting concluded. "It's about both things."
Medium reported that the song was written during a particularly tumultuous personal period of Sting's life. He was in the wake of his divorce from his first wife and at the start of a new love affair.
Sting and Trudie Styler/Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC ImagesTo escape, the songwriter retreated to Jamaica, where he stayed at the Goldeneye estate of James Bond novelist Ian Fleming. It was there that the song was written.
"It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realize at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance, and control. These were the Reagan, Star Wars years."
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