Artist: The Police Album: Live! (Atlanta/Synchronicity Concert) [Disc 2] {1995} Disc 1

One, two, three


With one breath, with one flow
You will know synchronicity
A sleep trance, a dream dance
A shared romance, synchronicity

A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Science is susceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectable
Nothing is invincible

If we share this nightmare
We can dream, spiritus mundi
If you act as you think
The missing link, synchronicity

A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Science is susceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectable
Nothing is invincible

We know you, they know me
Extrasensory, synchronicity
A star fall, a phone call
It joins all, synchronicity

A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Science is susceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectable
Nothing is invincible

It's so deep, it's so wide
You're inside synchronicity
Effect without a cause, sub-atomic laws
Scientific pause, synchronicity
Synchronicity, synchronicity, synchronicity
Synchronicity, synchronicity, synchronicity
Synchronicity, synchronicity

Let's hear ya


Another suburban family morning
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 her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can fake
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 headlight
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache, how they ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on a door
Of a cottage on the shore of a dark Scottish lake

Many miles away, many miles away, many miles away
Many miles away, many miles away

Come on


Fifty million years ago
You walked upon the planet so
Lord of all that you could see
Just a little bit like me

Walking in your footsteps, walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps, walking in your footsteps

Hey Mr. Dinosaur
You really could not ask for more
Were God's favorite creature
But you didn't have a future

Walking in your footsteps, walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps, walking in your footsteps

Hey, mighty brontosaurus
Don't you have a lesson for us
Thought your rule would always last
There were no lessons in your past
You were built three stories high
They say you would not hurt a fly
If we explode the atom bomb
Would they say that we were dumb

We're walking in your footsteps - walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps - walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps - walking in your footsteps
Walking in your footsteps - walking in your footsteps

They say the meek shall inherit the earth
They say the meek shall inherit the earth
They say the meek shall inherit the earth
They say the meek shall inherit the earth
Walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, come on

It would be a science fiction
To laugh at our extinction
But you really ought to think hard
When you're walking in you graveyard
Fifty million years ago
They walked upon the planet so
They live in a museum
It's the only place to see 'em

Now we're walking in their footsteps - walking in your footsteps
Walking in their footsteps - walking in your footsteps
Walking in their footsteps - walking in your footsteps
Walking in their footsteps - walking in your footsteps
Walking in their footsteps - walking in your footsteps
Walking in their footsteps - walking in your footsteps
Walking in their footsteps - walking in your footsteps
Walking in their footsteps - walking in your footsteps

Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh
Another lonely day with no one here but me, oh
More loneliness than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair, oh

I'll send an SOS to the world - I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my - I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle, whoa
Message in a bottle, let's hear you
Message in a bottle, you can do better than that
Message in a bottle

A year has passed since I wrote my note
I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep me together, yeah
Love can mend your life but love can break your heart

I'll send an SOS to the world - I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my - I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle, whoa - what do you say
Message in a bottle, whoa
Ooh, message in a bottle
Message in a bottle

Walked out this morning, I don't believe what I saw
A hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone in being alone
A hundred billion castaways looking for a home

I'll send an SOS to the world - I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my - I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle, oh
Message in a bottle
Ooh, message in a bottle
Message in a bottle

Sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS


Thank you
How was that - was it okay
Hello

Everyone I know is lonely
God's so far away
And my heart belongs to no one
Now sometimes I pray
Take the space between us
Fill it up some way
Take the space between us
Fill it up, fill it up

Oh my God, you take the biscuit
Treating me this way
Expecting me to treat you well
No matter what you say
How can I turn the other cheek
It's black and bruised and torn
I've been waiting
Since the day that I was born
Fill it up
Fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up
Fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up

Fat man in his garden
A poor man at his gate
My God, you must be sleeping
Wake up, it's much too late

Take the space between us
Fill it up some way
Take the space between us
Fill it up, fill it up
Fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up
Fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up
Fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up

Fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up
Fill it up, fill it up
Fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up
Fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up
Fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up, fill it up

Don't think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They're only checks I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
When their eloquence escape me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

De do do do, de da da da is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da - their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da - they're meaningless and all that's true

Poets, priests and poiticians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
No one's jamming their transmission
When their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you

De do do do, de da da da is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da - their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da - they're meaningless and all that's true

Come on

De do do do, de da da da is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da - their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da - they're meaningless and all that's true


What
I can't hear you
That's better
Now keep going

Thank you

This is a song called Wrapped Around Your Finger


You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charibdes
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger

I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turn into a shining band of gold

Oh, I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
Oh, wrapped around my finger

Mephistopheles is not your name
I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your tuition
And you will see it come to its fruition

Oh, I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
Wrapped around it, wrapped around it

Devil on the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air, you'll never find me
I will turn your face to alabaster
When you find your servant is your master

Oh, you'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
Wrapped, wrapped, wrapped around your finger
Wrapped around your finger

My sisters and I
Have one wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
They'd wait for him here
The same place every year
Beneath the sheltering sky
Across the desert he would fly

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

The sky turned to black
Would he ever come back
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups still full of sand

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you


Thank you

There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution

We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world

Our so-called leaders speak, huh
With words they try to jail you
They subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure, come on

We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material
We are, we are

Where does the answer lie, where
Livin' from day to day
If it's something we can't buy
There must be another way

We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits - in the material world
We are spirits in the material world


Thank you

There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
There's a flag pole rag and the wind won't stop

I have stood here before
With the world turning circles
I guess I'm always thought
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
There's a blue whale beached by a spring tide's ebb
There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
The world turning circles running round my brain
I guess I always thought that you could end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall
There's a dead salmon frozen in a water fall
There's a blue whale beached by a spring tide's ebb
There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running round my brain
I guess I always thought that you could end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a king on his a throne with his eyes torn out
There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt
There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed
There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread

There's a red fox torn by a huntman's pack
There's a black winged gull with a broken back
There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running round my brain
I guess I always thought that you could end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

King of pain, king of pain, king of pain, king of pain
I'll always be - king of pain
Always be - king of pain
I'll always be - king of pain
I'll always be - king of pain
I'll always be - king of pain
I'll always, always, always, always, always be king of pain, yeah
King of pain, king of pain, king of pain, king of pain
King of pain, king of pain, king of pain
I'll always be - king of pain
I'll always be - king of pain
I'll always be - king of pain
One, two

Thank you


Young teacher, the subject of schoolgirl fantasy
She wants him so badly, knows what she wants to be
Inside her there's longing, this girl's an open page
Book marking, she's so close now, this girl is half his age

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Her friends are so jealous, you know how bad girls get
Sometimes it's not so easy to be the teacher's pet
Temptation, frustration - so bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop, she's waiting, his car is warm and dry

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Loose talk in the classroom, to hurt they try and try
Strong words in the staffroom, the accusations fly
It's no use, he sees her, he starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in that book by Nabakov

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

You never know what might happen, no, no, no

Please don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me
Please don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me
Please don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me
Please don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me


Thank you

Every Breath You Take, every move you make, every bond you break


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 been lost without a trace
Dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but it's you I can't replace
Feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby please
Hurt me baby

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
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 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 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 breath you take, every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take
I'll be watching you, watching you
Every single day, every word you say
Every game you play, every night you stay
I'll be watching you, watching you
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
Ooh, I'll be watching you

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light

I loved you since I knew you, I wouldn't talk down to you
Told you once, I won't tell you again
I won't share you with another boy
You know my mind is made up so put away your make up
Told you once, I won't tell you again - it's a bad way

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light

Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh
Roxanne, oh yeah, Roxanne, oh Lord
Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh
Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh
Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh
Roxanne, oh no, Roxanne, oh no
Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne - put on the red light
Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh, Roxanne, oh


You want some more
What happened to my jacket - it was all nice when I came on

I've called you so many times today
I guess it's all true, what your girlfriends say
That you don't ever want to see me again
And your brother's gonna kill me and he's six feet ten
I guess you'd call it cowardice
But I'm not prepared to go on like this

I can't - I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't - I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you, I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you

I see you sent my letters back
My LP records and they're all scratched
I can't see the point in another day
When nobody listens to a word I say
You can call it lack of confidence
But to carry on living doesn't make no sense

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing, losing you
You, yeah, losing you, losing you, oh

Alright, Georgia
Very good, let's go
Even better, come on, try harder
One more try, let's change the shape
No problem

I guess this is our last goodbye
And you don't care, so I won't cry
And you'll be sorry when I'm dead
And all this guilt will be on your head
I guess you'd call it suicide
But I'm too full to swallow my pride

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing - no, no
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing - no, no
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing
Can't stand losing you, can't stand losing you
Can't stand losing you, can't stand losing you
Can't stand losing you, can't stand losing you
Can't stand losing you, can't stand losing you
Can't stand losing you, can't stand losing you
Can't stand losing you, can't stand losing you
Can't stand losing you, you, you, you, you


Thank you, good night

I feel so, I feel so
One, two, three, four


Well, someone told me yesterday
That when you throw your love away
You act as if you just don't care
You look as if you're going somewhere
But I just can't convince myself
I couldn't live with no one else
And I can only play that part
And sit and nurse my broken heart

So lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely

Now no one's knocked upon my door
For a thousand years or more
All dressed up and nowhere to go
Welcome to this one man show
Just take a seat they're always free
No surprise, no mystery
In this theatre that I call my soul
I always play the starring role

So lonely, lonely, lonely, so lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely

I feel low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low
Low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low
Low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low
Low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low
I feel so lonely, feel so lonely, feel so lonely, feel so lonely

On the guitar, Andy Summers
Our vocalists, Dolette, Michelle and Tessa - come on girls, out here
Get a load of this
On the drums, Stewart Copeland
And thank you

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely

I feel so low, feel so low, I feel so lonely
I feel so low, I feel so low, I feel so lonely
I feel so low, I feel so low, I feel so lonely
I feel so low, I feel so lonely
I feel so lonely


Thank you and good night