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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
Lyrically malevolent. It has always been one of my favorite Police songs.
So many of their songs have these just amazing lyrics, one of the things that set the Police apart from other bands. Of course, the amazing music does too!
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I am no expert or Jung psychologist, but I love how the lyrics of a man going slowly mad due to middle age pressures is juxtaposed against the Loch Ness Monster slowly emerging from the lake and approaching a door. It seems that the song ends with the beast at the door, meaning that the door is about to open revealing the man going full crazy. Or at least that what it seems to me.
I always thought that Daddy was the monster at the door at the end, perhaps about to kill himself and his whole family. I even thought I heard that was the band's idea for it as well.
were close enough on tour.
Still love the tunes.
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch"
Now that I'm an adult, this line really hits me hard.
Which means I should probably look for a new job.
My favorite Police song. Great lyrics and Copeland's drumming is the hook. Unlike most other Cop tracks, the roboplay wasteland of FM didn't murder this one for me.
Copeland is a helluva drummer from what I can tell. The video, sadly, is goofy.
I always thought that at the end, Daddy had morphed into the monster and was approaching the family home's front door...
i like this take much better.
agreed. i always took it as he drove off the road and the police are coming to the door to tell the family he died in a crash...but, that's just me.
I always thought that at the end, Daddy had morphed into the monster and was approaching the family home's front door...
This is a killer song...the lyrics, the delivery, the energy, the feeling that it's all the same as ever...and the mysteries are never solved...
agreed. i always took it as he drove off the road and the police are coming to the door to tell the family he died in a crash...but, that's just me.
this song totally rocks. you nailed it John.
The video is sadly pretty damned goofy. The drumming is astonishing.
This is a killer song...the lyrics, the delivery, the energy, the feeling that it's all the same as ever...and the mysteries are never solved...
this song totally rocks. you nailed it John.
Greate sense of modern alienation in this one.
I give it a 9, not least in honour of one of my best Summers (sic!) ever
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Always liked this tune even though Feyd Rautha, I mean Sting, kinda bothers me.
Yes the music Harkonnens back to the golden era.
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My favorite Police song. Great lyrics and Copeland's drumming is the hook. Unlike most other Cop tracks, the roboplay wasteland of FM didn't murder this one for me.
I AGREE! Even better in FLAC w/ great studio phones, amp & DAC!
My favorite Police song. Great lyrics and Copeland's drumming is the hook. Unlike most other Cop tracks, the roboplay wasteland of FM didn't murder this one for me.
well said, agree 100%
Correct. The album opens up with "Synchronicity I" and side 1 (back when there was such a thing) closed with this. I still have my vinyl copy somewhere!
I just bought a two channel analog amp so I could listen to all my vinyls again.
Correct. The album opens up with "Synchronicity I" and side 1 (back when there was such a thing) closed with this. I still have my vinyl copy somewhere!
Fixed
Indeed. I miss The Police. When this album came out, it was overplayed so much, I began to hate it. Later, I added it to my collection. Ah, the 80's...so much good stuff back then.
How could THIS song be a 5!!!! I seriously do not get it.
Seriously, I feel like my "8" was being stingy. (Looks like the average is up to 7 now though.)
God, Sting used to be such a badass!
How could THIS song be a 5!!!! I seriously do not get it.