Few songs have been embraced as romantic declarations quite like this 1983 chart-topper.
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.
Sting wrote The Police's hit, "Every Breath You Take," in the early 80s, and it's a cornerstone of their 1983 LP Synchronicity. The song, which appears to tell the story of a man so in love with his partner that he would do anything to be near her, has been misinterpreted for decades.
"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.
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He told CBS Mornings that the song is believed to be a "very romantic love song. Or its about a stalker."
"This obsessive watching," he continued. "I don't contradict people in their individual interpretation of the song. I think it enriches the song."
"Which I think gives it its power," Sting concluded. "It's about both things."
"Some people get married to that song. God bless them," he noted with a wink.
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 ImagesSting was first married to Frances Tomelty. However, he was simultaneously involved in a romance with her friend and their neighbor, Trudie Styler.
To 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.
He told The Independent, “I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head, sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour. The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting."
"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."
Its place in pop culture is undeniable, but "Every Breath You Take's" meaning has often been lost along the way. More than four decades later, its true meaning still surprises listeners who thought they knew the story behind the lyrics.
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