The Police - Synchronicity II (Official Music Video)

The Official Music Video for Synchronicity II. Taken from The Police - Synchronicity.
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Lyrics:
Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Krispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her 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 in 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 headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away
There's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away, many miles away
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#ThePolice #SynchronicityII #Synchronicity

[@andrewhopkinson8736]

Only Sting could sing the words "Rice Krispies" with such conviction.

[@okrajoe]

So true!

[@BevisFriend2010]

Bahahaha 🤣

[@mariodeleon4350]

I had heard Kellogg's took offense to their product being used in such a negative manner that they threatened to sue The Police if they didn't issue a formal apology.....Ok, April Fools! But I wouldn't doubt that happening it in today's world...

[@slavaukraini404]

John Lennon sang "Sitting on a Cornflake" just as convincingly. He was as good a vocalist as Sting to. But I love them both.

[@shea455]

"Over the din of our Rice Krispies"... it hits hard... this imagery of a child eating breakfast with no control over anything he is singing about. It's both funny and distrubing as a gen-x that had a father trying to do his best during strikes and inflation.

[@robynsegg]

40 years later and this STILL sounds timeless!!!!!

[@robynsegg]

@@tendraftsdeep Same here! Definitely a "desert island disc! 🏜️ 🏝️ 💿 And a Happy New Year to U 2! 😂

[@coreylapinas1000]

No it sounds firmly 80s

[@lookoutforfrankie2611]

Thats a catchy powerful tune

[@chrisstevens-xq2vb]

Amazing song with the worst video ever.

[@joanroberts9801]

It won't *ever* get old!

[@mac7040]

"Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes". I think of this line every day on the way to work.

[@user-mm7xr8if1u]

Someone else, another commentator said the same thing. Yes--I'm in Southern California, and the Los Angeles and San Diego freeways are full of lemmings packed into shiny metal boxes.

[@radish6691]

Time for a change then

[@battistebuono2530]

I was a senior in high school when this awesome album came out. We always changed it to "packed like lemmings into shiny YELLOW boxes." As if that was original back then, LOL! Those were the best times.....

[@chamangus]

Lemmings are small rodents that, as far as I know, have ever been packed into metal boxes. Wonder if sardines wouldn't work better here.

[@saldiven2009]

@@chamangus The lemming reference is related to the apocryphal belief that lemmings will sometimes blindly follow each other on a "march to the sea" where they will rush headlong into the waves and drown themselves en masse.

[@Yourmomgoestocolledge]

Nobody sounds like The Police, not just Sting's voice but the way their verses go into choruses.

[@sratus]

Except that it steals a bit from Dr Jimmy by The Who.

[@innertubez]

I still don't understand how The Police did this with only 3 guys. Legends.

[@RuiLuz]

Talent beats numbers.

[@scottleipski1015]

YES THEY WERE, back in the day!

[@Sausagey2]

Overdubbing

[@jankarlsson8341]

Try looking at a live concert with Rush...

[@billyfoster3223]

Well, well, well, Rush, anyone??!!😎😀

[@josephmorse4318]

Sting looks like Malcolm McDowell mocking Billy Idol.

[@RodrigoSilvaDiaz]

Hahahaha...

[@gregsmith7949]

🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍

[@shaunbond4218]

fitted in with the apocalyptic theme of the video. Plus this video was done about the time he was in the movie Dune

[@kurtiss7265]

🤣🤣👌🏻

[@jacobtyloch2455]

I was leaning more toward DJ Qualls

[@eltorpedo67]

The comparison of "Daddy" coming home at the end of a hellish day at work with a dark "shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore of a dark Scottish lake" is extremely....unsettling.

[@randy5655]

He's back!

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

Think of the synchronicity of the two events...

[@rozzgrey801]

At the time we thought he was referring to the Loch Ness monster, but we realise now it was Nicola Sturgeon.

[@eltorpedo67]

@@rozzgrey801 lol

[@randy5655]

He was referring to a fish?@@rozzgrey801

[@underdog4255]

This song is a masterpiece. From great composing, recording art and lyrical content. The storytelling is stellar. They don't write very many great songs like this anymore. Cheers!!

[@davidbaise5137]

Agree completely 👍

[@sekenamcmurren2217]

Awesome 😂🎵

[@javiergutierrez-jk1kv]

Only the police can play like that

[@msanderfive]

If you havent heard it yet, check out Journey's cover of this tune, its actually better than the original imho. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpTRoah-btF5Z7c

[@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq]

Copeland, the scientific drummer, Andy, the perfect harmonist, Sting, revolution-in-a-pocket, a great bassist, a great singer.

[@frankhengstler6101]

Ever notice that Stewart Copeland plays drums like they owe him money? Truly an awesome band!🤘

[@alanledesma4945]

Stewart is a fucking genius, in my opinion the best drummer ever

[@00simonwise]

He's probably trying to put out the fire that broke out onset...

[@theamazingt4r468]

He is seriously the GOAT.

[@GaryHighFruit]

@@alanledesma4945 If it's just your opinion he's the best drummer, then just say he's your favorite and he's great... so we Rush fans don't have to keep saying that Neil Peart is the best. PS: I've been playing drums along with both drummers since the 80s. Maybe U gotta be a drummer to see it.

[@Sal.Manila]

Great comment! He’s such a dynamic, creative musician.

[@Chrissurfs]

God please bring music like this back to earth !!!

[@punkrockscreamsheet]

chris tian the message in the song is awesome Check out a flash flood of colour, talks about similar topics

[@MrThrib]

no

[@GoldwaterB]

You HAD music like this. Enjoy it!

[@aarotoivari8940]

It's still on earth and you've never had better access to it. Be grateful for that.

[@MrTacoToy]

It's out there, it's just not popular

[@johndillon6859]

Even without the video, the way the song instantly transports us from suburban hell to remote Scotland is absolutely astonishing.

[@ziggystardust1751]

Where has the time gone.I was living in the middle east when this album was released.I am 70 now.🎉😮 I am now a old dude but in my heart and mind I'm still young.I have lived during a time of great musicians.Thanks Y.T. for bringing these groups back to see.They keep me young!!🎉

[@chevyvet69]

To this day Stewart Copeland is one of the best drummers ever

[@jeffreycase285]

Yes yes and yes

[@balsingh1]

@@jeffreycase285 him and reni from the stone roses. the 2 best ... ever!

[@onometre]

It's a tragedy that out of the 3 of them it was sting that was massively successful post breakup

[@joebill3400]

nailed.

[@CC-vw1nd]

I concur

[@mark-o-man6603]

The chord changes in this one are absolutely mental.

[@Auntkekebaby]

Sting baby!!! A damn opera!

[@psuengineer84]

Straight out of early 70s prog rock bands. Some similar lines in Genesis songs. Great stuff.

[@Drahlers]

Kind of like the time inn synchronicity I. I don't know how these performances were possible

[@Auntkekebaby]

@@psuengineer84 It's like Prog pop. Three minute prog.

[@Vasily_dont_be_silly]

@@psuengineer84 Took the words right out of my mouth

[@Panicnow2207]

Release date: June 17, 1983. Forty years later, it still resonates. The whole album is brilliant.

[@plumcrazypreston2797]

Sting looks and sings angry as hell. He compares his day in the tormented family life with a day in the life of the LOCH NESS MONSTER! That's the SYNCHRONICITY in the lyrics plot. He has a voice that can belt out some loud notes.

[@tonypine3434]

And their search to get tree fiddy

[@bigmoney4635]

I’m 31 and a huge Police fan and I have my 60 year old dad to thank for my musical taste. He raised me on the good stuff

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

amen 4 our fathers

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

I'm 60 myself, and back in college (early 80s) I listened to my vinyl albums of the Police (and perhaps those of others, in adjacent dorm rooms) many, many times--as you say, good (rockin') stuff! 😝

[@itorqueutorque5137]

😎

[@jacquio1733]

Go dad! I am also in 60s and have managed to inflict my music taste onto my 3! 🤣🤣

[@number1scatterbrain]

They were great in concert.

[@SonicDykstra]

Andy Summers - the most underrated guitar magician ever!

[@Buzzedd777]

I've played for 25 years and more. Andy has a lot of credibility in the guitarist world, maybe not so much the shredders but the good song writers all love him. He can right some bad ass stuff. I'd love to get his Fender Monochrome but 12K, ouch.

[@RayPaganJr]

Another person with the “underrated” comment. Next thing you’ll post is John Entwistle was an underrated bass player.

[@katemurphy1915]

Paul Dykstra unquestionable

[@katemurphy1915]

I wish that he and Robert Fripp would give Apple Music the music that Summers and Fripp made together...I have both on vinyl stored away with all sorts of other treasures...

[@GregSticker]

Agreed right behind Elliot Easton of The Cars.

[@dianesolkah6896]

The 80's music is the best.

[@Snoil]

RUSH and The Police, 3-man bands that surpass it all. Man the 80's need a comeback!

[@ThaiThom]

Yes, you just can't beat a really good trio.

[@rolandobacamartinez5391]

Try Soda Stereo

[@Snoil]

@@rolandobacamartinez5391 Amen there!

[@inkadinkadoodle]

"Many miles away, there's a shadow on the door Of a cottage on the shore Of a dark Scottish lake." Those lines still send a chill up my spine.

[@ClaesN1973]

He's about to break!

[@castlelord8995]

Totally agree. Fantastic line!

[@karazor-el6085]

@@SpikeMichaels Hence the name of the song and a reference to the earlier song, "Synchronicity." Two separate events, both inevitably leading to an act of violence, seeming to happen at roughly the same time.

[@kenmurray1600]

loch. not lake.

[@karazor-el6085]

@@kenmurray1600 The word "loch" is used once, but "lake" is used other times.

[@fredgarvinMP]

I've heard this song my entire life but only realized about a week ago how absolutely brilliant the lyrics are. Terrifyingly brilliant.

[@GOFFMEISTER]

Same bro

[@yuichiro7649]

Same, I currently have 18 years but The Police were a strong part of my childhood thanks to my father

[@scottr.7117]

Terrifyingly hilarious

[@sanakassara]

You can thank Sting's fascination to Carl Jung and his thoughts about Synchronicity for that.

[@fredgarvinMP]

@@scottr.7117 That too...

[@the_best_of_times]

My two favorite things. Rice Crispies and the Loch Ness monster.

[@ricardojohnson7839]

They just don't make great music like this anymore.... alot more creativity and thinking outside the box with this track... hell the entire album!!❤

[@hunterchartrand6646]

I’m only a teen (18) but I absolutely love this kind of music, it’s so much more meaningful and natural sounding than the shit everyone else my age listens to. No matter what anyone else listens to, this is what I will always be rocking for the rest of my life

[@nancydemoss8421]

Good for you, Cobalt46! I'm old enough to be your grandmother (maybe your great-grandmother) but we could rock out to this music together. I could reminisce about the "good old days" of rock - wait, I'm drowning in nostalgia!! Anyway, you have great taste in music!!

[@AldGregg]

You are absolutely correct. A time when bands were allowed to do their thing. So much competition now I feel many are too scared to take chances. Its all about churning out formulas now to make some guaranteed profit. Its quite sad really.

[@garypotter5569]

Many miles away, there's a shadow on the door Of a cottage on the shore Of a dark..Scottish lake. Many miles away... Many miles away.... Many miles away......

[@dbsti3006]

If you ever get into drums, this is a drummer to listen to.

[@nancydemoss8421]

@@garypotter5569 All of these years that have passed since this song came out and the hair still stands up on my neck every time I hear it. "Many miles away, there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore of a dark Scottish lake."

[@kingmalcolm8695]

As a teenager in the 1980's, I absolutely loved the police - and I still do today.

[@tinog100]

some here ...these guys always be my heroes

[@mygoogle1594]

Looks like Mr. Sumner came straight from his turn as a Harkonnen in David Lynch's "Dune".

[@kevio6868]

I hated cops back then...but loved the Police

[@debrawilliams6995]

Great!

[@sylviarobinson5952]

💯×💯

[@mattpeckham667]

These lyrics passed way over my head when I was a kid. The idea that paranormal phenomena ---in this case specifically, monsters---are a physical manifestation of psychological trauma and dislocation.

[@crucialtaunt5717]

It went over my head too. All I knew is the song felt deeply unsettling and intriguing as a child. I just came back to it now because the music got stuck in my head after decades of not hearing it. I'm completely blown away.

[@anthonyjagers7770]

If I recall correctly the LP/cassette didn't print the lyrics in the sleeve. So, I never learned them.

[@TomTwain]

Yep... extremely deep lyrics. It could be argued that there is more than a fleeting allusion to the dark practices of Aleister Crowley... in particular, the closing lyrics...... whether Sting intended that is subjective... 🤔one thing for sure, he was evidently familiar with the works of Carl Jung !

[@Blizofoz45]

I'd argue that creating a monster myth at Loch Ness is human instinct reaching back to primordial fears to counterbalance the disconnect of the industrial age.

[@obxarms7685]

Quantum entanglement

[@isabel1983]

Can’t express how good this band is! Stewart Copelands amazing drumming paired with Stings beautiful vocals and Andy Summers exquisite guitar playing make one of the best bands ever… Synchronicity has to be one of the greatest albums ever made too, every track is truly great 🎶✨

[@davemustabstain7093]

Fantastic album, this is my favourite song on it, although that other one took all the glory.

[@user-hd5wv7ix6w]

That's THE ONLY Police album I have ...

[@zoarpaz1557]

Stings amazing bass!!! Never underestimate Stings bass lines . Genius!

[@jeffinillinois]

When stings bass kicks in.... And the subtle synth strings in the back.....

[@jessemacdonough3064]

It's hard to believe that this song is nearly 40 years old

[@yyaa2539]

yes ...it is hard to believe that the time flows so fast. Iwas in high school behind the iron curtain when i bought the cassette ...

[@tonyfrancesco3701]

Dance while you can.

[@jjmontes14]

37 o 38 dude.

[@Snarkapotamus]

Sure is. We used to go to the local park after work, do illicit (but fun) things and throw the Frisbee around.

[@marclawrence66]

OMG thats scary!

[@jenscee7679]

Sting was filming Dune at the same time, and looks as mad as a fox. Incredible song, incredible performances.

[@user-dc1dr9kr8x]

Outstanding

[@laurallewien2165]

Dune was a great movie, classic sci fi!

[@craiglegere2702]

I was thinking the same thing FEYD

[@christopherharmon2433]

Well Feyd was mad as a fox so...

[@MrRevolverkiller]

he was only acting like a filthy Harkonnenn

[@SisterAbdullahX]

The best Police song by a country mile!

[@trevdog67]

My fave Police song. I had a very surreal experience when I was standing on the shores of Loch Ness while in Scotland for the first time in 2019 with my wife... it dawned on me that I had dreamt about it since first hearing this in 1983. Love it!

[@RK-be2ym]

Jealous!

[@coletanner5193]

I was in your dream..I synchronistically was skipping rocks on the shore and said I would message you in 40 years

[@inkadinkadoodle]

@@coletanner5193 😆

[@pennypay1]

This is one of my favorite 80's songs, especially when comparing song lyrics, and it was an earworm for much of my (brief) visit to Scotland in '98. The countryside blew my mind- as an American, I'd never been anywhere so GREEN- but the overcast skies and the chill made it easy to imagine some unknown beast emerging from a dark lake.

[@blossom1643]

Ok I’m jealous! That’s so Cool 😎 ✌️

[@ronlevovitz7088]

The best and most descriptive lyrics of any Police song. The second stanza paints such a clear picture of the workday that it's almost like it's there in front of you. "And every single meeting with his so-called superior is a humiliating kick in the crotch." Who hasn't gone through this in his or her life?

[@blackberrycobbler4me]

Still going thru it

[@Jonathan_Ellis]

I think that one cannot truly appreciate this song's lyrics until one has had some life experience. It is my favorite song by The Police.

[@Alan_Page]

I've never read anything to support this, but I've always thought it was pretty clear the father was going to snap and kill his family. The references to Loch Ness are like the ideation of violent thoughts (something crawls from the slime at the bottom), and eventually they become more prevalent (something crawls to the surface), and then at the end as he comes home (family is looming in the headlights), the shadow of the monster is on the door of the cottage. There's also a reference to a pain in his head, which could be simply stress or could be a reference to how many killers have experienced physical symptoms, pains in their head, sometimes from physical brain conditions, etc.

[@turquoise770]

@@Alan_Page That's an interpretation akin to a Stephen King-type novel, a la "The Shining", focusing at an individual level on the particulars of family dynamics (which might have been what the lyric writer intended), but to me, based on the lyrics and the song structure, its seems more of a universal commentary on existentialism as humans move into an increasingly uncertain 20/21st century. If you notice the song doesn't really have a repeated chorus, just three verses broken up by what seem to musically read as three quasi-bridges (all starting with: "many miles away...), opening in a very futuristic dystopian minor key which sets the whole tone for what you can expect throughout. Suddenly though, it morphs into the major key as the verse begins and paints what seems to a Penny Lane-like picture with suburban family mornings and Rice Krispy breakfasts, yet as the song shifts into a chromatic modulation the lyrics begin to suggest cracks in the facade. Then in that quasi-bridge ( seeming more to me like a musical aside ), an F natural (outside of the normal F sharps of the keys of A, G and D in which most of the song operates) figures strongly, mirrored in the lyrics with the unrelated topic of something lurking in a Scottish Lake, yet loosely tangential to the topic in the verses by the phrase "many miles away" (from that particular family) - a sort of re-imagining of the comic book technique "meanwhile, on the other side of town...". There is an obvious tension between the verses ( descriptions of the mundane putting on a stiff upper lip and muddling through an increasingly difficult world to live in) and the seemingly unrelated quasi-bridges ( describing the approach of an ever-closer foreboding), and when I first heard the song, I realized that the clever and gradual elevating of this tension - between the seemingly unrelated subject matter of the verses and this ominous "thing" of the quasi-bridges - was intentionally left to my own imagination to make a connection, really for the very same reason that the ominous "thing" from the bottom of the Scottish lake is not named or described. While the lyrics of the verses are meant in a haphazard way to approximate our own workaday experiences (confronting boredom, pollution, workplace dynamics, rush hour traffic, ad infinitum - or what might be called "la nausee" according to the mid-twentieth century French philosopher Sartre), the unnamed foreboding mentioned in the quasi-bridges represent an inevitable confrontation with existential threats arising from the consciousness that attempts to unite these seemingly meaningless trivialities and sufferings with ultimate purpose and meaning. This inevitable confrontation and its resolution are again cleverly omitted as the lyric writer knows that every hearer of the song will eventually in their own way have to respond to the knock on that cottage door (on the shore of a dark Scottish lake), and confront whatever is on the other side; a cliff hanger of sorts as the song ends with a "to be continued..." coda. As an addendum, notice that in the second quasi-bridge before the instrumental interlude, he sings "a dark Scottish loch", pronounced with fairly good amount of emphasis - perhaps to foreshadow that cottage door (LOCK? - or unlocked?). Yet, again another bit of cleverness.

[@snoopyallblack3507]

They dont know how to write lyrics today, that era will never be the same again, great time to grow up

[@truthteller9681]

Sting’s lyrics and bass line, Andy Summer’s guitar and Stewart Copelands incredible drumming! Please bring them back!,

[@goldenagenut]

A true 'power trio', the sound those 3 could put out, amazing. Look at Emerson Lake and Palmer, or Rush, when you have every member with that level of talent and skill, you can often do without a fourth. So rare for that many people with that level of talent to find each other at the right time and click together.

[@joefera8947]

Them coming back is not going to happen, as they don't get along. They barely made it through the reunion tour. Hell, they could barely make it through the impromptu gig at Sting's wedding.

[@lloydertel1]

totally agree.. i miss them. MY cds are almost worn out

[@groovyg7231]

Andy does come up with good guitar riffs

[@laekrits]

Back from where?

[@d.b.4062]

Still loving this 40 years later. Was fortunate to see them in concert on the Synchronicity tour in 1983-1984. What I'd give to go back to these days.

[@chefgiovanni]

I seen them in concert during the 1st tour !

[@johnnyslc]

This is an amazing song

[@FoulOwl2112]

Mind if l hitch a ride when you go?

[@ruvimperna5532]

much love

[@devolve42]

My experience of the 80s was pretty shit, so I wouldn't want to relive it but it would be cool to have a time machine to visit some concerts now and then.

[@Bodlasona]

It's amazing how precious these lyrics are ...When he Sings: Another Industrial Ugly Morning...HE sings that so cheerfully even though nobody wants to live in that surrounding. Sting is a genius

[@talesmysterywonder]

Don’t compliment Sting. It might give him a big ego.

[@Reikitaii]

I LOVE how haunting Police's songs are. Not to mention the creepy lyric undertones. It's perfect.

[@hoodwink3476]

Daddy issues? Need a good choking?

[@The-Silliest-Billy]

I'm getting vibes of Kafka mixed with Jung. A little existential dread considered with total futility. The music accompanies it perfectly.

[@tomfommber]

A horrifying love song to the working class.

[@Io-Io-Io]

Litterature

[@zant5721]

I’m I’m getting a mix of Kung mixed with a little Fu and some Judge Dread and a lot of fertility of the soil with a lime in the coconut. It’s like Wow Man!

[@alanscott7798]

Andy Summers - bloody brilliant guitarist - and utterly original.

[@elikfriend]

They all are

[@cruelty-freediet1720]

average

[@thescottishcrusader2781]

@Gibberish no u

[@ChrisCross2014]

@Delike el Ducce Love 2 hear your top hit songs.

[@JohnnyBeane]

@@cruelty-freediet1720 lol

[@lucaslucas2933]

I rarely hear lyrics as good as this one these days. I was working the other day when this one came on the radio. I was having a terrible day already, but this song instantly changed that.

[@stevendimmock4791]

Nobody writes lyrics like these any more because the youth of today are largely brought up to a lower level of intelligence as us. Therefore they don't need them. All they need is Swift and Sheeran, saying the same old meaningless crap over and over again. And they think that the lyrics are brilliant because, luckily for them, there will be some pathetic influencer who will tell them that they are good.

[@johnstrausbaugh6718]

I remember getting this record for Christmas. Played the hell out of it. This is one of the best tracks on the record

[@johnlewandowski8624]

Me too!

[@2760ade]

Haven't heard this for years, it is unbelievably brilliant, seriously!!

[@skylilly1]

Yep, sure is! The likes we'll never see or hear again.

[@dwightclark7627]

Copeland is as steady as a metronome on this one. Amazing performance.

[@titidiz6343]

You said it's brillant but said you haven't heard for years... Lol you really like your music... Ha ha ha.

[@2760ade]

@@titidiz6343 I'm more into heavy rock/metal generally, that's why! I was a kid when this came out, and I randomly heard it again recently, had just forgotten how bloody good it was!!😀😀

[@spookymulder945]

One of the best riffs ever. Sick af.

[@DeeDee-vy7sz]

Sting looks possessed in this video but the lyrics are so epic. The daily grind of life is so perfectly described.

[@peteyspaletas2023]

"Daddy stares out into the distance. There's only so much more that he can take". A 40 year old song 📺📻 (1983-2023).

[@carnivoreRon]

My favorite Police song.

[@scrooglemcduck1163]

And we're still packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes.

[@RickPayneInc]

a whole song of mental briliance

[@Danin4985]

This is my all time favorite song. Ever. Dark, witty, and energetic. The Police are my number one band. Next to them are Pink Floyd, Prince, Eurythmics, and few more. Brilliant song.

[@patricial3494]

My all-time favourite too. The Police were phenomenal.

[@Joao-id4dn]

Sting is an intelectual by rock star standards.

[@JoelBryant1960]

Andy Summers makes it sound so simple to play his abstract parts. Genius guitarist

[@michaelwills1926]

Brother that is the truth

[@nealborganelli9964]

Pure genius guitarist!

[@rondamon6641]

talented and obsessed. Just listen "Don't stand so close to me 86' " how he adorns with indescribable chords Really a gifted guitar player !!!

[@artysanmobile]

They are brilliantly arranged and no mean feat to play either.

[@robvoyles]

he plays some very difficult chords, it may sound simple but there not. you are correct, he gets not enough respect for his playing ability's.

[@Tom-ok2rh]

Hard to exactly explain what a “Driving” song is that makes you want to be hauling ass in a car, but this one easily is one of the top ones. Everything clicking all at once.What a great tune👍👍

[@SCVM__]

Try it in a Bass Boat

[@CHINGAZOS]

This song and other numerous 80s tracks had this effect on me also, especially Ministry's Stigmata, I would turn into a Speed Demon, lol.

[@Tom-ok2rh]

@@CHINGAZOS to be honest with you I have never heard of Ministry or that tune and after listening to it on KZbin I can safely say if I heard that song while driving after a few beers I might be inclined to drive straight into a brick wall…lol

[@perisbrodsky4242]

This, and Deathwish kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpm0mWOFZ8mNf5o

[@occamrazor5196]

Mmmh.... 🤔 Too dangerous...

[@Firearcher4]

One of their absolute best tunes if not the very best. This song is a GEM

[@zurnu74]

That _C-C-C-C-B♭ C-C-C-C-C-B♭_ guitar riff is sooo... really I cant explain it

[@stevekarno9790]

Their best tune. Andy's riffs made this song.

[@brianterry8317]

Certainly its between this song and Invisible son

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

Andy doesn't get enough credit. Stewart & Sting get all the accolades.

[@lloydertel1]

Andy was great.. But i think Stewarts drumming was awesome

[@travisscottfan221]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXWtqXmGhcedmLM doesnt this sound like this song

[@craigleegillings]

Juss, Jurrr.. we'll probably never see this magic again.. Genius... ty..

[@tomgebarowski8156]

All three band members were so talented individually, and even greater together as a band!

[@ericmills9839]

More amazing that they were barely on speaking terms when they recorded this album. They were in separate rooms the whole time.

[@wayneparke554]

A true shame they couldn't get along. Most of the blame rests on Sting. And he was never as good solo as he was with Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers. And while Sting may have been the majority of the creative force, together they had Synchronicity. The whole was definitely better than the sum of the parts.

[@ericmills9839]

@@wayneparke554 Indeed, but we got 5 great albums out of it. Listening to Synchronicity again, Sting was already moving in that jazzy direction regardless and change was inevitable, though we don't know what it would have looked like with them together.

[@ashwb1]

Full Dune acting mode

[@SerialThrilla404]

I would listen to this song driving 1 1/2 hours to work stuck in traffic (in my tiny metal box) to a dead end job collecting a mediocre paycheck while the people at the top got rich. It made me say screw this, and start my own business, I will never go back.

[@barbaradoyle6093]

Well, thankfully you didn’t go home and murder the family.

[@johnstark5324]

God I am getting old, I remember when this was new.

[@spoonunit03]

Yeah, i remember buying it new (LP)and playing it till my stylus wore out. Just kept turning it over all night while getting drunk & stoned. ....Bloody kids today just don't know the.......oh jeez, STOP... :)

[@jillnashlund5905]

GOD IS JILL RUDOLF LOVE CALL 911 KEVIN RUDOLF NOT HAPPY HE MAD GO AWAY PINK SH SH

[@automachinehead]

you aren't alone there bud was 6 when this was released

[@ixglocTV]

You're not "getting old", you're ancient! "Getting old" is for the thirtysomethings.

[@grimmbleaper9981]

@@ixglocTV come on man dont make it worse

[@mdimranali8158]

Andy summer is one of the most underrated guitarist ever walked on the earth

[@cdick]

underrated? you mean in the most popular band in America at one time? put the bong down.

[@alexiskatsogiannos7468]

I like Stings acting in this video! Classic song too.

[@dogewood5499]

Wow! I didn’t know the Scottish National Anthem had a music video too!

[@StingFanDonna]

As much as I utterly adore Sting...I bow at the greatness of Stewart Copeland.

[@chrismiller3490]

DING DING DING. WE HAVE A WINNER

[@MrRlwiley]

Copeland was one of the main reasons Sting left. Sting said he couldnt stand Copelands messy meter.

[@achenarmyst2156]

In fact they are three geniuses.

[@andrewmark3682]

Stewart Copeland sure pushes the beat around, fab drummer with distinctive sound.

[@2degucitas]

He looks like he's killing the drums in murderous rage!

[@toob1979]

@@2degucitas Exactly! Stewart's punishing those drums like they owe him money.

[@cswann8]

If in a million years, there's something left behind to show humans were here...I hope this is it.

[@ghostina]

teenage angst..80's edition.

[@janiquevaillot8554]

MANY MILES AWAY !..... Still love this song. Since I was a teenager. November 2020. Who still listerning to the greatest album of The Police (SYNCHRONICITY) ???

[@janiquevaillot8554]

❤

[@yimmyherrera721]

Here!!..from Chile ....Dec .2020!!.

[@marioro8423]

🤟🇲🇽💯🛡️🗡️👌

[@fabiocianchetta6127]

Me

[@fabiocianchetta6127]

Many miles away. Scotish lake

[@Auntkekebaby]

Sting is a BRILLIANT lyricist and composer. Master! It's a damn opera. A perfect prog pop song

[@staceychutskoff1232]

This Song Is A Masterpiece From 1984-2024! Thankyou

[@staceychutskoff1232]

Cheers! 2024

[@jenmahar1729]

One of the best rock songs OF ALL TIME!!

[@BigDaddy-xx1gk]

The Police and the Talking Heads. My two favorite bands of all time! Love the minimalist, complex sounds. Love the lyrics. Sting and David Byrne are musical geniuses.

[@andymatthews7617]

Sting really cared about what he was singing about

[@coffinact745]

Omg I love talking heads and the police too we probably have the exact music taste. Do you like donald fagen?

[@noimpostura]

I think it is an unfair comparison, David Byrne is far superior. Sting played the rock and roll star, David never. The quality of their work after the split proves it. Sting needed more of Andy and Stewart, than David of the rest of Talking Heads.

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Sting and Byrne have something else in common. They pull their lyrics from the same place.

[@noimpostura]

@@princeofcupspoc9073 ok, what do yo mean?

[@cncs2806]

The lyrics in this song are just pure GENIUS.

[@fredlougee2807]

When the album was released most people were raving about Every Breath You Take, completely not getting it of course, probably because that was where the band put the money for the cool video on MTV. By comparison this video is a lame joke, but who cares because the song is the thing. It's not just the lyrics themselves which are pure genius. It's the lyrical phrasing as well. The way Gordon sings "And every single meeting with his so-called-superiors is a humiliating kick in the crotch" for example. That's not a poetic line, really, but he turns it into a song line with his presentation. That is genius.

[@RicardoMartinez-jy5lo]

One wishes Western politicians might as well start from here to try to fix our decadent civilization.

[@debrawilliams7983]

cncs2 They sure are. My favorite form of Poetry - Songwriting

[@chadblanchard1931]

...yep and following the concepts of Syncronicity by Carl Jung makes it all the more magical...a coincidence ...I think not...

[@scottharrisohn6972]

Sting among the greatest lyricists ever with J Lennon and J Morrison.

[@lowmoon9025]

When I was a kid I loved them as a pop band, today I can appreciate their sublime musicianship and sophistication of the writing. Everything about this band was best in class.

[@deafears4025]

How many of the men that listen to this never knew much of it was about them?

[@georgyboyvega3286]

My favorite band ever. I am still have chills everytime i listen this song.

[@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq]

They compete in my heart with Genesis, the Beatles, and J. S. Bach.

[@forumquorum8156]

@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq right! first time i heard minuet and badinerie, it was almost a religious experience for me. wonderful.

[@radiofreqz1097]

Especially when you know what it's about...

[@sweetpeterjeter9941]

Bring tears to my eyes.

[@drumtwo4seven]

Great song Great band You need to get out more often there's a far bigger world out there There really is

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

This video doesn’t looked aged at all. They were such amazing artists.

[@tatianajones4550]

You mean they are.

[@danielmcalister2713]

The damn POLICE!!

[@geosuicide1015]

Oh no, the video is aged, but the music hasn't

[@valparaisosting]

In 2004 I often went to the cyber to watch the police videos on KZbin when it wasn't common internet at home! This video in particular liked very much

[@BobsBand]

You must be kidding. The video is terrible! Too 80s. Excellent song though.

[@JeffTheNebraskaDJ]

ANOTHER TIMELESS CLASSIC! 80"S MUSIC RULES!! the dj

[@gargoyle790]

Best song on the album.

[@sterlingholobyte]

Only Sting could put "Rice Crispies" in the lyrics of a song and make it seem cool.

[@mikey_suzefour]

Made me enjoy the cereal more after I bought the album LOL @sterlingholobyte.

[@alvertmccarthy5551]

It's the only Police I love 👍😄

[@mbcoll8154]

These 3 guys snap crackle and pop.

[@empereurjustinien2082]

Big shaq did

[@francoisb.6301]

@@empereurjustinien2082 you beat me to it by 6 hours T_T

[@tomkruze2749]

Sting looks like Billy Idol in this video hahaha

[@finakeda602]

🤣I'm weak

[@Torgo1969]

More than a little bombastic, and one notes that Sting went in a completely different direction once he went solo. I suspect he disliked the excesses of being a rock star.

[@nope_no_nunya.]

Yes☺

[@ImpartiallySpeaking]

....you mean how similar Billy Idol looks to Sting!

[@jaramendez]

His hair 😂😂😂

[@gavinsmith9022]

Always loved the line " another working day has ended, only the rush hour hell to face " man, still the same 40yrs later, we all must be insane lol.

[@MTRAdmiralty]

Stuart Copeland's snare drum sound is legendary. So tight and crisp -- he must have snapped many drum heads with it that tight.

[@retiredvet204]

Copeland....Monster on the drums!!

[@chrismiller3490]

DAMN RIGHT. FUCKING AMAZING

[@dayceem]

Anyone reaching for the tom toms would have ruined this. Copeland had that shallow sound that essentially defined 80's music for me.

[@TheKinoEye]

MONSTER!

[@lizmagu3189]

Stuart on the drums = 🤯 And Sting giving off that Billy Idol vibe.. LOVE THIS SONG!!

[@Io-Io-Io]

Forget the video & listen !

[@marclawrence66]

Know what you mean, but I'm not sure Sting copied anyone EVER

[@billcobbett9259]

Can you imagine these guys doing White Wedding?

[@sandrajovic9304]

@@marclawrence66 Billy may've copied Sting's look (if you look at the years) but I'm glad he did. He made it his own and was delicious.

[@wildinamerica]

Sting artfully articulates a dark commentary of a society that's lost its way.

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend a Song called 'The bond villain' By Robert Nix

[@terrydoyle]

Definitely one of The Police's best songs. Great music and lyrics. Setting the bar for creative, memorable songs.

[@Chris-Kay]

2019 and still loving the police

[@jacquelineiona1996]

Me too fellow Police fan....

[@jacquelineiona1996]

Also... Sting was and is a brilliant song writer!!! I loved his writing since I was 16 ... I remember I had these thoughts... Things happening at the same time in different places... I just didn't know what to call it until Sting came along in my life... I can truly say he has enriched my life thru all of his music... Love him

[@hoodwink3476]

2019 plus 4 months from your comment. I AM the future. Slink away 4-months-ago man.

[@TheDetroitLion313]

You and me both.

[@ianbarrett4166]

I always thought the later stuff was better shame they broke up

[@tommdistefano3981]

Stewart Copeland the Best Drummerlin the World! I can't wait to see Sting in concert!

[@Accam570]

Sting was beautiful back then.

[@oztrace6016]

I remember when this song was released thinking it was way ahead of its time in terms of sound. Sting is a legend.

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

"many miles away,there's a shadow on the door,of a cottage on the shore,of a dark Scottish lake." I can see it.

[@debrawilliams7983]

kawasaki whip two Great escape lyrics

[@MrTw2009]

Yea..creepy right? I love this line ;)

[@dougdevine5294]

Bolskine house.

[@eachfallenrobin]

@@dougdevine5294 you know

[@amosissister]

Loch Ness heading towards Urquhart Castle. Beautiful during the day. Looks creepy at night.

[@rosemarybaker8820]

I never get tired of this song. Love this group.

[@robertengland8769]

This song was on the radio all the time in the '80's. Still sounds better than crap nowadays. Lol.

[@DeidreL9]

In love with the haunting dark brilliance of this song…it’s haunted me for decades. Sting is incredible😍

[@usamerican0005]

"Trapped like lemmings into shiny metal boxes..." Yep, way too much of life spent feeling that way.

[@caelidhg6261]

I loved those few moments in 2020 where there was barely any traffic.. how I miss those halcyon days

[@woomydayz]

I thought it was packed like lemons into shiny metal boxes lmao-

[@usamerican0005]

@@woomydayz It's actually "Packed like lemmings..." so I had the wrong lyric also

[@woomydayz]

@@usamerican0005 oh lmao

[@robertbroatch6919]

The tragic plight of so many-right over a cliff!

[@victorevanssr.5034]

One of the greatest bands ever

[@spoton7683]

My first EVER rock concert... The Police... 29 February, 1984... (Yup, Leap Year / Day)... Western Springs, Auckland, Nuu Zullun... Support acts = Australian Crawl + Bryan Adams (who had just released his first album, I think...) ... After which... Pitch black... Extended expectant silence... Then.. The first shrill syntho tones of Synchronicity II.... Closely followed by an EXPLOSION of colour (including Sting in flouro ragged jumpsuit hanging from a tightrope; later bouncing up and down on a mini trampoline et CETERA... and BIG sound... Crystal clear to match the evening weather... WWWOW.. GREAT work guys... You RRROCKED!!! (Best concert I had ever seen 😉)... Thanks... You were my favourite band for YEARS... 🙇🙇🙇

[@philmorris4306]

Stewart Copeland once said that Sting was arrogant from birth .Thank God he was. The Police would be nothing without him. Andy Summers was and still is a fantastic guitarist and Stewart is just Stewart 😂

[@cymbolichuman433]

That's one of the saddest lyrics ever in the most exciting instrumentals.

[@The-Silliest-Billy]

When people say all police are bad, show them this

[@hdmat101]

Agreed lol, this the only police I like

[@sygmoore]

Good one 💙

[@frederickleo5265]

Topical

[@dbsti3006]

I've heard people criticize the Police before....never understood why.

[@kennykelley5107]

Word

[@rauldiaz4871]

Fantastic Brothers !!!!

[@waterlily3758]

This is a song that makes you feel something even though it makes no sense.