![]() An energy where people can connect with one another on a deeper level. A place where they don’t feel judged, rather embraced. So, whenever I pass away, I want people to remember my work providing an energy that encourages others to be authentic and at peace. Success cannot be pursued itself, but rather attracted by the pursuit you make towards yourself to become a better person. That our value doesn’t stem from what’s outside of us rather it stems from our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. What’s success if you can’t recognize who you truly are? I want my story to bring comfort to people and to send a message that each and every one of us has a gift that can never be duplicated. I believe impacting people in a positive way by being yourself surpasses any superficial offering you can make to attract people. I want people to remember on how I made them feel. What do you think people will say about you after you are gone, what do you hope to be remembered for? What sort of legacy are you hoping to build. Alright, Lost thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. “Of course,” said Sting, “I wasn’t aware of any of this.We were lucky to catch up with Lost Lyrics recently and have shared our conversation below. Which, though it might work, is simply false. It was, as he said, not intended as sinister while writing it that darkness was only added to it later. So it does not qualify as the true story behind the song. There is confirmation that the sinister reading of this lyric was never part of the songwriter’s intention. I thought I was just writing a hit song, and indeed it became one of the songs that defined the ’80s, and by accident the perfect soundtrack for Reagan’s Star Wars fantasy of control and seduction.” “ Of course,” he says, “I wasn’t aware of any of this. He is trapped in his circular obsessions.” In another interview from 1991, he was open about this shift, saying the song offers “no release of emotions or change in the point of view of the protagonist. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, of surveillance and control.” “ I didn’t realise at the time how sinister it is. The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. ![]() “I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head,” he said, “sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour. In 1991, to UK’s The Independent, Sting spoke of the origins of the song, admitting his own revisionism: Yet a little research confirmed that which we long suspected. Proof of this are the endless online stories which state this as the official meaning of this famous song. Evidently people love the idea of a song meaning something other than what it seems to be. It was a story that caught on immediately. This is the story which everyone now accepts as truth: although it seems sunny, it’s dark. And people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it’s quite the opposite.” ![]() ![]() “The song is very, very sinister,” Sting said to the BBC, “and ugly. He then started embellishing the story to tell us there was more to this song than we knew. “The song has the standard structure of a pop ballad,” he said, “but there is no harmonic development after the middle eight, no release of emotions.” Rather than celebrate his ability to create a song so pure that the masses loved it more than any of his songs, he would disparage its simplicity. Yet Sting has always seemed a little ashamed of its simplicity, as if that disqualifies it to be so much more loved and popular than those songs which offered more overt evidence of his brilliance. ![]()
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