Day 316: So Lonely

So Lonely by The Police

SING LOUD WITH HEADPHONES ON! But practice it first…

Sting wrote the lyrics while he was in his previous band, Last Exit, then “grafted them shamelessly onto the chords from Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman No Cry,'” he explained in Lyrics By Sting. “This kind of musical juxtaposition – the lilting rhythm of the verses separated by monolithic slabs of straight rock and roll – pleased the hell out of me. That we could achieve it effortlessly just added to the irony of a song about misery being sung so joyously.”

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-police/so-lonely