Murder By Numbers

Este tema no apareció originalmente en el album Synchronicity, sino aparece como lado B de "Every breath you take" en posteriores ediciones del album en cassette y cd, recién aparece como última canción, ha sido interpretada dentro de la gira de reunión del 2007

|> The Police - Murder By Numbers





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 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

'Cause It's murder by numbers one two three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
It's 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
It's 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 famous 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

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

one two three ABC
one two three ABC
one two three ABC

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

Tea in the Sahara

Al principio no me gustaba esta canción, pero después uno le encuentra el gusto, y más aun cuando la anécdota es que Sting siempre le gritaba a Copeland que el ritmo tenía que ser más lento cuando la tocaban en vivo...
inspirada en el libro "The Sheltering Sky" de Paul Bowles, llevada al cine con Debra Winger y John Malkovich.





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

Tea in the Sahara with you
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
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 still 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

Wrapped around your finger

uno de mis temas favoritos del album, para mí, es el mejor video de The Police, una joya, imitado pero nunca igualado..
enredado en tu dedo, enredado en tu territorio, donde soy sólo un aprendiz..





Wrapped Around Your Finger

You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charibdes
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at that 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 that shining band of gold

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

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

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

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

And you'll be wrapped around my finger
you'll be wrapped around my finger
you'll be wrapped around my finger

King Of Pain

cuando todo sale mal, no queda otra que ser el rey del dolor, deprimidos o no, esta letra es contundente



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 always thought that you could 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 always thought that you could 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 water fall
(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 always thought that you could end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a king on his 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

There's a red fox torn by a huntman'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 inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I always thought that you could end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain....

king of pain....
king of pain....
I'll always be the king of pain....

Every Breath You Take

ya habia dedicado un post con este tema, probablemente la mejor cancion de The Police, acusada en algun momento de referirse a un acosador, pero quien que no esté enamorado no es un poco acosador, gran video, numero 1 en la Billboard de 1983, varios Grammy's, sencillamente un clasico






Every Breath You Take

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

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

O 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 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!!!

O 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
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take

I'll be watching you
Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
...

Synchronicity II

pienso que esta es la cancion del album, la sincronia, los sucesos independientes que se conectan, ademas creo que es el tema mas elaborado de The Police en lo musical, a muchas millas de distancia...




Synchronicity II

Another suburban 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 the 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 on 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 Loch

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 his headlight
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on a door
Of a cottage by the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake

Miss Gradenko

Este tema es escrito por Stewart Copeland y hace referencia a la burocracia rusa o algo asi, recordar que este tema es de antes de la caida del muro de Berlin..





|> Miss Gradenko

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

Your uniform don'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 at all in here?
Nobody but us in here
Nobody but us
Nobody but us in here
Nobody but us

Mother

he aqui de un video al estilo Sims2 de la cancion original cantada por Andy Summers, esta cancion se salia del estilo general de la banda, pero tenia una fuerza tremenda, no era de las que mas me gustara en esa epoca, pero luego de varias oidas uno le toma cariño, en especial cuando uno es adolescente y la mama llama o se aparece cuando uno quiere conversar con una chica.. :):)





Mother

Well, the telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?
The 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 I got 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
Every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end

Oh Oh mother

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

O my God

siguiendo con la revision del album Synchronicity, viene este tema,




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 this space between us
And fill it up some way
Take this 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 they 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 this space between us
And fill it up some way
Take this 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 this space between us
And fill it up some way
Take this 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

Walking in your footsteps

Cuando escuche esta cancion por primera vez, me parecio interesante, ya que no era lo que The Police estaba acostumbrado a hacer, y al ver en vivo el concierto de 1983, me sorprendio gratamente que Sting tocara esa especia de zampoña al inicio, un instrumento tan andino...






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

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

Hey mighty brontosaurus
Don't you have a lesson for us
You thought your rule would always last
There were no lessons in your past
You were built three stories 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

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

Walking in your footsteps....

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

Walking in your footsteps....

Synchronicity

La cancion con que se inicia el album y con la que se iniciaba las giras de 1983



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
You're inside
Synchronicity
Effect without a cause
Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause
Synchronicity.....