So what about the songs Well, as a starting point how about 'Every Breath You Take', now one of the most played records ever This track has two faces - one of surveillance and creepy observation the other of hopeless devotion - and to this day it amuses Sting that people choose this song for their wedding - "It's a very sinister song, but it's seductively dressed up." I can remove things without feeling threatened. It's a grand design, but I'm not sure if it come off or not. "Musician, 6/83, "The theory that the 'Synchronicity' album is entirely a function of Sting getting divorced is a gross oversimplification, and naive. Eight of the 110 songs are his, and fully half of them are blatantly depressed - not particularly angry, but down and dejected. 'Synchronicity' completes the madness of 'Synchronicity I' and it's on to side two. Jung believed that, to a large degree, everything that happens in our lives is caused by dozens, hundreds, maybe millions of seemingly unrelated things happening at the same time. A synchronicity is a coincidence that has an analog in the psyche, and depending on how you understand it, it can inform you, primarily through intuition and … And you feel that, you feel your connection with it and therefore what you do, very naturally, is connect with it through your music and so you keep writing while you have your finger on this pulse. Really, this Sting is some moody guy. The cuts on 'Synchronicity' are sequenced like Chinese boxes, the focus narrowing from the global to the local to the personal. Synchronicty literally means "at the same time." Song meanings ©2003-2021 lyricinterpretations.com. The rejected narrator in 'King Of Pain' sees his abandonment as a kind of eternal damnation in which the soul becomes "a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall / ...A dead salmon frozen in a waterfall." And that's what I wanted this record to be about. I guess mine was concerned with extinction. Without being overly sentimental or indulgent. "NME, 12/83, "'Synchronicity' was a very personal statement for me, as opposed to a personal statement for the band. It Opens with the current single 'Every Breath You Take', a rather plodding tune with a basic theme of jealousy. Looking out from the stage of Shea Stadium at an audience of 70,000 people Sting realised that "It doesn't get any better than this we should really stop". adunit_id: 100001411, I wonder if I manufacture pain in order to create. Then there's the music, which might just make the trip worth taking... this trio's come a long way from the time when every song was made up of two riffs (albeit solid ones) and each song's fade-out was a third of the song's length. I'd hope that once I am mended my ideas would be more objective. I wrote a lot of these songs in Golden Eye, Ian Fleming's old home on the north shore of Jamaica. Despite its widespread appeal, it remains a pseudoscience, as there is no way to prove either its validity or falsity. (1) Synchronicity shows one aspect of how spiritual, unseen energies like to work, which is to pull the same things together. 'Synchronicity' was recorded on the island of Montserrat in 1983." For instance, in the title cut there's a domestic situation where there's a man who's on the edge of paranoia, and as his paranoia increases, a monster takes shape in a Scottish lake, the monster being a symbol for the man's anxiety. 36 Life-Changing Quotes about Synchronicity to Help You Awaken. You are in harmony with what you seek. We were very much thrown together by accident and we're very distinguished by strong egos. Being mindful of synchronicity helps you know some of the signs, which you may have dismissed as nothing or even a weird coincidence. Like a kind of collective pulse. "I ultimately thought it sounded better that way. Typical Police pacing, with Copeland's hi-hat ticking away over Sting's stop-start bass line. "Synchronicity I" is a song by the Police, and the opening track from their album Synchronicity. 1 LP in a row after its release on 17 June 1983. Such songs as 'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da' and 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' stood out like glowing gems, safely sealed off from Sting's darker reflections. "Q, 11/93, "I think we'd become so refined as a group of musicians that we realised that the three instruments just playing solo and ensemble was perhaps the best way of doing it - and it just seemed to happen. Yet the music has a startling inner energy The Police are new to. Not only is 'Synchronicity' The Police's best album, but it is probably one of the most socially relevant records in recent years. Ugh. I play much better when the sound coming out of the instrument is rich and warm. Synchronicity is a connective tissue between the everyday world and the other side, the world of spirit. It's like within the parameters of the music there are lots of accidents and lots of things ricocheting off each other. We all went back that night - we had a house in Long Island, all of us, with our families and we sat round, put the fire on, and we'd just had this huge triumph, and I turned to Andy and said 'It doesn't get any better than this we should really stop'. That's a synchronistic situation. I'll just find out when the album comes out. Elsewhere there are unusual wailing guitar effects from Andy Summers (who comes over particularly well on this album), and the band manage to sound far bigger than a 3-piece, and far more interesting than when they play live. It was a hundred small, routine aggravations and frustrations happening at the same time. I'd prefer "The Thief of Baghdad", but it wouldn't be pretentious enough. As for the remaining four songs, 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' and 'Tea In The Sahara' are doomy ciphers, the former possibly about marriage, the latter open to a handful of interpretations, none of them exactly upbeat, while 'Synchronicity I' is a trifle explaining the title concept and the monster hit 'Every Breath You Take', is ostensibly a trite love song with it's icy and obsessive core just barely concealed. The retail business isn't renowned for its daredevil adventure, nor for its profound emotional content, and however impressive bits of 'Synchronicity' might sound, I could never fall in love with a group which plans its every move so carefully and which would never do anything just for the hell of it. Sunny pop melodies echo with ominous sound effects. After sealing a bargain with a mysterious young man, they wait on a dune for his return, but he never appears. Share. 'Synchronicity's' big surprise, however is the explosive and bitter passion of Sting's newest songs. Two members of the same band will hit the same chord, or the music will shift to an area that you both agree on for some inexplicable reason and you'll find yourself on the same wavelength. 'Synchronicity' was recorded on the island of Montserrat in 1983. And that is where this bleak, brilliant safari into Sting's heart and soul finally deposits us - at the edge of a desert, searching skyward, our cups full of sand. Still, one recalls how elsewhere Sting was commented that the Clash have "14 year-old intellects," which sounds about right, but at least Strummer & Co come on like pissed off 14-year olds, ready and willing to shake things up than just make fragmented little observations about the lack of niceness in the world... after a while Sting's passive suffering (the secret of his success - it is a romantic image, unthreatening, properly victimised...) gets kinda tiresome. It's weird, as a writer, which I primarily regard myself as. And one wants to give Sting credit for trying not to be inane. I felt the songs I wrote were different, so the playing had to be different. It's a very happy feeling - it's like the height of your popularity, you know that you do is going to connect in a very big way with a large group of people, and while that period lasts - and it can't last for ever - everything you touch turns this way. Andy couldn't be in the control room with me because of the guitar noise. ""Lyrics", 10/07, "There was a book published called "Synchronicity" which is about the meaningfulness of apparent coincidences - is there any meaning in coincidence. Even more than on the hauntingly ambient 'Ghost In The Machine', each cut on 'Synchronicity' is not simply a song but a miniature, discreet soundtrack. The opening salvo of 'Spirits In The Material World', 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' and 'Invisible Sun' was the most ambitious and expansive music they had made, at once concentrated and inquiringly diverse; but from there the record turned in on itself until it wound up desiccated. I ask you to think of a time when song synchronicity happened to you. Let's face it, none of us is as young as we were, and you have to make that killing while you can. There are now pregnant empty spaces reverberating with Andy Summers' broad guitar synthesiser strokes where his angular echoplex chords used to be. I think it's my function to vanish behind the handiwork, in a sense, and just let it stand on its own. It was synchronicity. Later, we hear about humiliation by his boss ("and every single meeting with his so-called superior/is a humiliating kick in the crotch"), all the while he "knows that something so… "Rolling Stone, 9/83, On what his 'strip' on the cover of the album says about him..."I don't know. Sting is saying, it wasn't any ONE thing. As the narrator of 'Every Breath You Take' tracks his lover's tiniest movements like a detective, then breaks down and pleads for love, the light pop rhythm becomes the obsessive marking of time. Enregistré sur l'île de Montserrat et au Québec, il est co-produit avec l'anglais Hugh Padgham durant l'hiver 1982-1983. There were lots of overdubs, but the overall feel was spartan. What does "Synchronicity II" have to do with Jung's concept? Was it sheer dumb luck? A list of lyrics, artists and songs that contain the term "synchronicity" - from the Lyrics.com website. This approach has the effect of amplifying them, transmitting the same urgency of 'Roxanne' and 'Message In A Bottle' but with subtler flashes. Stewart Copeland's 'Miss Gradenko', a novelty about the secretarial paranoia in the Kremlin, is memorable mainly for Summer's modal twanging between the verses. Sting's jungle fatigues may not have been any more convincing than Strummer's urban guerilla outfits but they appeared a sight more classy. But the success had its downside. At the same time, the blending of bassist Sting's bright, keeing vocals with guitarist Andy Summers' billowing fills and gleaming, fine-edged accents suggests an up-to-the-minute intimacy with microworld aesthetics. The song suggests many interpretations: England dreaming of its lost empire, mankind longing for God, and Sting himself pining for an oasis of romantic peace. He smiles with a mouth that looks like it's about to bite the head off a baby doll. The album opens with 'Synchronicity I' and 'Walking In Your Footsteps'. Originally, they were the stars of a bubble gum commercial. Some of the things on that record are quite sinister and angry and twisted. The wild card in the set is 'Mother', by Summers (Sting writes most of the songs). In this haunting parable of endless, unappeasable desire, Sting tells the story, inspired by the Paul Bowles novel 'The Sheltering Sky', of a brother and two sisters who develop an insatiable craving for tea in the desert. A record of real passion that is impossible to truly decipher. The way 'Synchronicity' II suddenly spreads its wings around Copeland's immense drum sound and Sting's striding bass riff, with Summers rattling off cascades of that guitar sound, is little short of enthralling. After listening to 'Synchronicity' for the first time, it becomes quite clear that the Police do not intend to stand idle or wallow in former glories, Whether it's because Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers feel threatened by the host of new bands desperately trying to imitate their immensely successful sound, or because they're fearful of, God forbid, being categorized by the rock press, 'Synchronicity' is yet another dimension of the Police we've never heard before, And even though the album is wiry and fragmentary at times, and so personally emotional that some of the songs actually come too close, 'Synchronicity' is a wonderfully brilliant record. And, aside from the music, it's pretty much the whole show, drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers compositional contributions having been limited to one novelty song apiece (namely Summers's 'Mother', with his Wild Man Fischer turning into Norman Bates vocal good for a yuk but mainly making one thankful that weren't any vocals on last year's Summers/Fripp collaboration, and Copeland's more successful 'Miss Gradenko', a cute distaff 'Well Respected Man' as it might have come out of the USSR, which squeezes just enough into its two minute length). Like Bowie, Sting has the ability to orientate this world to his own pace. On 'Synchronicity', vestiges of that romanticism remain, but only in the melodies. The songs worked with three instruments. Synchronicity II is a song by The Police which is about the theory that seemingly coincidental events are connected through their meaning. SUBURBAN HUSBAND/FATHER KILLS ENTIRE FAMILY; NEIGHBORS SAY "HE WAS A QUIET MAN" The song "Synchronicity II" is about an ordinary day that ends in that type of horrible tragedy. It was a healing process. The song always reminds me of the phone call made in the Koolaid Acid Test to - help me w/ the name - whose presence was being requested at La Honda for the party that was beginning. The Police, on the other hand, avoid a robotic effect by keeping a readily identifiable guitar sound and rawing from a variety of rhythmic influences. Synchronicity is a string of events that seem to be highly symbolic and meaningful in nature. Throughout the LP, these ideas reflect upon one another in echoing, overlapping voices and instruments as the safari shifts between England's industrial flatlands and Africa. It simply went to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and just stayed there - 8 weeks in the UK and in the US where a huge stadium studio helped consolidate its position, for an incredible 17 weeks. So it was very clear to me during the making of this record this was the end of the Police. Basically, it sounds like a frog farting. It was important to Sting, that 'Synchronicity' sounded different. Does Sting spend his Sunday afternoons playing chess against Death, buying time with a couple of extra points off his royalties ("Here you are death, take this money and buy yourself a new scythe."). And now because I'm who I am I lead a rarefied kind of life that's unique to me and a few other people and the man in the street won't be interested in what I want to tell him. "Every Breath You Take" has a seductive, rolling beat masking its … "Rolling Stone, 3/84, On the success of 'Synchronicity'..."I think there is a golden moment in a career when, very naturally, you put your finger out in front of you and you automatically touch the pulse of a lot of people. I just want to say that if there's a feeling of sadness in any of the songs, it's genuine. Sting is a King Of Pain. (Think of those cliche newspaper headlines, like SUBURBAN FATHER KILLS FAMILY AND SELF; NEIGBORS SAY 'HE WAS A QUIET MAN'). 'Every Breath You Take' might possess the mildest melody on the album and therefore is a wise choice as the LP's single, but its haunting lyrics reveal much of the gut-wrenching anxiety Sting has apparently endured since the breakup of his marriage to actress Frances Tomelty. The band gathered on Montserrat in December 1982 along with producer Hugh Padgham they each brought their own songs. 'Every Breath You Take', 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' were all about my life. … So I can remove things without feeling threatened. In these days of big money reunion tours hardly a week goes by without a rumours surfacing that the Police are getting back together, but they've had the strength of character to resist and consequently their legend remains intact. They're all images of entrapment and pain. Shea Stadium was kind of the apex of what we'd set out to do. It's very important - it's not fair to make somebody sing words... we took ourselves seriously as being honest musicians which was very honourable but actually put limitations on Andy and I because we had to write songs that expressed Sting's emotions. In this article, a meaningful coincidence, as coined by Jung, defines synchronicity. "International Musician, '85, "My marriage had broken up by and I sat at the desk where Ian Fleming had written the James Bond books and wrote 'Every Breath You Take' and 'King Of Pain' and 'Wrapped Around Your Finger'. So the multi-layered sound of the previous album was stripped away and made more minimal. If I was them that's how I would do it too. What shall we put out as the second single...". The next two tracks, 'King Of Pain' and 'Wrapped Around Your Finger', are a couple of extraordinary love songs. }; I think it's my function to vanish behind the handiwork, in a sense, and just let it stand on its own," was how Sting saw it. "This was our final studio album. There is something personal about 'Oh My God' and 'Every Breath You Take' that lonely chest-beating like 'Message In A Bottle' was never privy to. Then, two years ago, The Police released a fourth album which borrowed its title from Arthur Koestler's popular tome 'The Ghost In The Machine'. We have the drums in the kitchen at Montserrat because they sound best there. The Police is a band for whom I have held little regard in the past. Actually, I did, but I just felt like a piece of shit. There were lots of overdubs, but the overall feel was spartan.". It's the record of a group coming apart and corning together, a widescreen drama with a fascination at a molecular level. "Hey Mr Dinosaur, you really couldn't ask for more / you were God's favourite creature but you didn't have a future," Sting calls out before adding, "We're walking in your footsteps.". These are just some of the general signs since synchronicity is a complex event. In an early stretch of lyrics we find "Grandmother screaming at the wall", as well as "mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration, but we know all her suicides are fake". In a sense, it's creating it because there are times in everyone's life when something you encounter becomes a symbol for your state of mind. The changes in the Police put 'Synchronicity' through seem to correspond to deep transitions the band have undergone themselves. 'Synchronicity I' is as close as the Police have ever flirted with musical anarchy: nothing seems to fit as each musician drains himself with relentless pokes and punches that ultimately ends in a KO. In 'O My God', Sting drops his third-world mannerisms to voice a desperate plea for help to a distant deity: "Take the space between us, and fill it up , fill it up, fill it up! From the favourable ones you'd gather that this trio is God's own gift to the discriminating pop music fan, while from the few (but firm) detractors you get the picture of three new wave poseurs manipulatively using reggae and punk elements to serve their own emotionally chilly and ultimately banal music. Copy link. 'Oh My God' squirms and twists before succumbing to 'Mother', written by guitarist Andy Summers and 'Miss Gradenko', by drummer Stewart Copeland. The Police - Synchronicity 1 - YouTube. In the lyrics, paranoia, cynicism and excruciating loneliness run rampant. But every box contains the ashes of betrayal. Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl G. Jung "to describe circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection." Drivel, mostly, but it gives that patina of books having been read. Shopping. "Musician, 6/83, "It was important that this album be different. 'Synchronicity', the group's fifth album, is highlighted by the gently romantic 'Tea In The Sahara', 'King Of Pain', with its alternately monastic and cathartic moods, and 'Synchronicity II', an aggressive, steely pieve that uses a longer melodic line than usual in Police songs. 'Synchronicity' doesn't take the headlong rush into electronics implied by the title, but it does show The Police playing around even more than usual with guitar synthesisers and other effects. The ambiguities persist in 'Wrapped Around Your Finger', a naif's trip to Costello country aswirl with luxurious harmonies. I write from experience, but it's not one that'll ring bells anywhere else. Possibly the worst thing about the Police is their reviews. There's no need for me to say, I've got to be on this track so people will know I can play keyboards! The record seems to grow more sensual and multi-faceted as it progresses, and it fittingly closes with 'Tea In The Sahara' - overtones of another apocalypse wedded to an atmosphere that is gold leaf and quartz gleam. Once again, Sting uses the songs to tackle some weighty metaphysical topics, and some delightful lyrics result. Now, none of these songs are particularly insightful, but then neither are any of them particularly stupid. Neither tune can match any of Sting's compositions either in style or output, but their inclusion here helps make the LP more balanced and democratic. The Universe, Great Spirit, Higher Power, Divine Creator, by whatever name you call Her or Him, speaks to us through song! Synchronicity: 9 Signs That The Universe Is Reaching Out To You Have you ever had the experience where you were thinking about someone and then within a minute, received a call from that same person? So it was best when I'd write instrumentals - that would work best. It's an engaging collection. It's very obvious why THIS song is entitled "Synchronicity." The communion between darkness and light in pop music has its supreme incarnation in The Police. Thus began their ascent from the teeny-bopper category. The album's lead-off track and first single 'Every Breath You Take' demonstrates these changes with a wily pop flair. 'Synchronicity' is all big, vibrant, complex sound performed with great clarity, even grace. He believed that there are no coincidences in life and every event occurs for a reason. Although it magnifies the differences between Sting and Summers and Copeland it also evolves the group into a unique state: a mega-band playing off glittering experimentation against the sounding board of a giant audience. 2. This "space" is evoked in an eerie, sprinting dub-rock style, with Sting addressing not only God but also a woman and the people of the world, begging for what he clearly feels is an impossible reconciliation. Though Sting has worked on that for a long time it wasn't until 'Ghost In The Machine' that it came good. Based on the idea that "every girl I go out with becomes my mother in the end," it's a part-spoof, part-manic track that shows The Police shouldn't be written off quite yet. For maximum enjoyment, synchronise yourself. 'Tea In The Sahara', 'Synchronicity's' moodiest, most tantalising song, is an aural mirage that brings back the birdcalls and jungle sounds of earlier songs as whispering, ghostly instrumental voices. And I didn't disagree with the ideas that he expressed in his songs. Like Marks and Spencer, The Police guarantee quality. Young men were dying in the freezing waters of the South Atlantic, while I was gazing at sunspots on a clifftop overlooking the Caribbean. Few contemporary pop songs have described the nuances of jealousy so chillingly. Some of the music fuses intuitive pop genius with wilfully dense orchestration so powerfully it stuns. Synchronicity, the last studio album by The Police, became their fourth UK No. We would disagree violently in prose. If serendipity is like the bread crumb, synchronicity is the trail that leads us toward a new destination. That he sites this intriguing meditation in a sumptuous pop melody and sings it multi-tracked voices of chill purity is no more than a skilled writer/performer fulfilling his dues, but that he does it at all is remarkable. Message In A Box – The Complete Recordings. I think that's a good thing for all of us, because the reason he's such a good drummer is that he's fresh, he's original, he's spontaneous and he takes risks. First up is 'Every Breath You Take' followed by 'King of Pain', an excellent song that never ceases to challenge the listener, 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' and 'Tea in the Sahara', both of which dutifully remind us why the Police and Sting, in particular, are the best things that have happened to rock since the Sex Pistols. It's about my mental breakdown and the putting back together of that personality. But I also think this is our best album, which I hope is the main reason. (function() { Stewart Copeland, whose aggressive complex drum strategies have made the Police one of rock's most artful dance bands, is now keeping a harder, simpler beat, investing his few critical flourishes with the energy and imagination he used to spend on a whole drum roll. The effusive gallop of 'Synchronicity I' sets the first tone, a revision of 'Message In A Bottle' dynamics to sweep aside the cobwebs of inactivity. I would imagine the next LP would be exponentially bigger than that. “Synchronicity an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.” – Carl Jung. The two tracks, 'Mother' and 'Miss Gradenko', are quite out of context with the rest of the album. In this article, we will explore how you can become more aware of synchronicity in your own life." The mood of cosmic anxiety is interrupted by two songs written by other members of the band. 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' was another spiteful song wrapped in a sugar coat, 'Synchronicity II' was as fine a piece of rock as the band ever recorded and 'Tea In The Sahara' was beautifully atmospheric. His more simple songs include 'Walking In Your Footsteps', 'King Of Pain', and 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' (in which The Police return to their old-style white reggae approach), but the album is saved by 'O My God', a startling mixture of impassioned vocals and guitar effects, the bleakly tuneful 'Synchronicity II', and the final wailing, witty 'Tea In the Sahara'. Fair enough. They operate without any lead to earth or deference to schedules. 'Walking In Your Footsteps', a children's tune sung in a third-world accent and brightly illustrated with African percussion and flute, contemplates nothing less than humanity's nuclear suicide. In short, everything you know about the Police is not wrong, but dramatically altered in concept and rearranged in execution. The sinister flavour of the lyric, professing an obsessive love hooked up to a devouring domination, is one of Sting's long suits; the vaguely threatening undertow of the sound is another. “What I found were “coincidences” which were connected so meaningfully that their “chance” concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.” I'm in a strange situation. Not there's very much wrong with it. Every time he picks up the receiver dear old Mom is there. And surprisingly to me, Andy said 'Yeah, you're right, it can only go down from here. Jung held that to ascribe meaning to certain acausal coincidences can be a healthy, even necessary, function of the human mind—principally, by way of bringing important material of the unconscious mind to attention. It's Turkish-inflected reggae sound underscores a lyric that portrays marriage as an ancient, ritualistic hex conniving to seduce the innocent and the curious into a kind of slavery. "Musician, 6/83, "The title of the album refers to coincidence and things being connected without there being a logical link. I believe he was coined the Intrepid Traveler. As the song ends, I believe he is just about to snap and do something horrible, like kill his family. “What message does this song have for me?” Make no mistake! Like Him, The Police never made a move without consulting the career plan wallchart. If you agree with the law of synchronicity, then you connect more deeply and send out a strong message (ripple), which creates more synchronicity and coincidence in your favor. The Police had the courage to say goodbye at the very peak of their commercial and artistic abilities. That's synchronicity, drawing that analogy. That's flattering in a way, but I thought we should try to sound a little different, so we pared away the things people have come to expect in our music. "Stewart Copeland: "In The Studio" Radio Show, On why the recording sessions were in different rooms..."In my case, it's because there is nothing worse than hearing a bass through a set of headphones. Infact a classic thing was where sitting around a coffee table arguing politics I'd hammer him into the ground and leave him speechless. And in 'King Of Pain' Sting enters a realm he never dared before. Seven months later, the band played their final concert in Australia and went their separate ways. Indeed listening to this opening track, 'Synchronicity I', it doesn't take much of a leap of imagination to foresee the Police as a fusion group. Where Bob Dylan used a locomotive as an image of good coming to mankind's rescue in his song 'Slow Train Coming', 'Synchronicity II' foresees impending doom in the shape of an avenging Loch Ness monster. The songs are surreal and delicate, illuminating and even a bit amusing, and they never fall to disregard the noble conventions of what a good pop tune is all about. It is a mechanism by which loved ones of all types can connect. The final track on side one is 'Synchronicity II', the most astute song Sting has written. So yeah, there is a moment when you think 'Oh, so that's what making it is'. It reached number-one on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart with 1,117,000 copies sold. Was it part of a divine plan? Does your favorite song always come on at the right time while you're in shuffle mode? It leaves a puzzling end to a most interesting album. Which of course is not their fault. enough! 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