Released: 1983
Album: Synchronicity
Artist: The Police
Awards: Grammy Award for Song of the Year, MORE
Genres: Alternative/Indie, Rock
Nominations: Grammy Award for Song of the Year, MORE
Lyrics
"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.
Oh 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've 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...
Oh 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
[Background:]
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.
Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
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
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you.
Most Popular Song of the 1980s
In addition to being one of the best-selling and most
cherished songs of the 1980s, the Police's timeless smash "Every Breath
You Take" continues to be a fan favorite.
But were you aware of the intriguing background to
Sting's iconic stalking song?
Every Breath You Take by Sting was given a BMI Award
in 2019 after becoming the most-played song in radio history. An amazing
achievement.
Why was the song so gloomy inspired? Why is it
considered a romantic song, exactly? What caused the band's dispute over the
song?
What you need to know about "Every Breath You Take"
is as follows:
Every Breath You Take was written by who?
The song was written by Police frontman Sting in 1982
and eventually appeared on the band's final album, Synchronicity, which was
released a year later.
What was the genesis and significance of "Every
Breath You Take"?
It was written by Sting shortly after his divorce from
Frances Tomelty and the start of his romance with Trudie Styler.
In 2006, The Independent reported: "He was
already married to Frances Tomelty, an actress and Trudie's best friend, which
presented a difficulty (Sting and Frances lived next door to Trudie in
Bayswater). The incident was widely criticized."
Sting withdrew to the Caribbean to get away from the
spotlight, where he began writing the song.
I got that lyric in my head when I woke up in the middle of the night, so I sat down at the keyboard and wrote it in about 30 minutes, ting later recalled. The lyrics are intriguing despite the generic nature of the song, which is a compilation of hundreds of others.
"It has a reassuring love song vibe. At the time,
I was unaware of how evil it is. I believe Big Brother, control, and
surveillance were in my thoughts.
The song's creation process
Sting sang over a Hammond organ on the eight-track
demo, which was recorded in London's Utopia studios.
He gave it to his bandmates in Montserrat a few months
later. Béla Bartók inspired Andy Summers to create the iconic riff, which he
performed in one take while the song was being recorded.
He was instructed to add guitar to a straightforward
backing track, with Sting's only instruction being to "make it your
own."
"This was a difficult one to obtain,"
Summers recalled later, "because Sting composed a very good tune but there
was no guitar on it. He had a Hammond instrument that reminded me of Billy
Preston.
The massive, rolling synthesiser portion made it sound
nothing like the Police. Just the bass and snare drums were recorded over the
course of around six weeks. A straightforward, well-known chord progression
existed, but we couldn't agree on how to play it. I was working on an album
with Robert Fripp at the time, and I had developed a new riff while sort of
experimenting with performing Bartok violin duets. We knew we had something
exceptional when Sting told us to "go and make it your own" after I
applied that lick.
What was its position on the charts?
The song, which is regarded as both The Police's and
Sting's hallmark tune, was predicted to account for between a quarter and a
third of Sting's music publishing income in 2010.
It was the fifth-best-selling single in the US and the
best-selling single of the 1980s.
On Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs
ever, the song came in at number 84.
In a 2015 poll conducted by ITV, the song received the
most votes from the British public as the country's preferred 1980s number one.
It topped the charts in both the UK and the US, where
it spent nine weeks at the top.
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