Artist: The Police Album: Synchronicity {1983}

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, synchronicity

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 couldn't 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

They say the meek shall inherit the earth
They say the meek shall inherit the earth

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

Everyone I know is lonely
And God's so far away
And my heart belongs to no one
So 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 my 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

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

Fat man in his garden
Thin 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

Do I have to tell the story
Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet

Well, the telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone
Telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone
The telephone is screaming
Won't she leave me alone
The telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone, ah

Well, every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Well, I hear my mother calling
But I don't need her as a friend
When every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Oh, oh, mother

Mother, mother

Oh mother, dear, please listen
And don't devour me
Oh mother, dear, please listen
Don't devour me
Oh women, please have mercy
Let this poor boy be
Oh mother, dear, please listen
And don't devour me
Oh, mother

Well, the telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone
The telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone
The telephone is screaming
Won't she leave me alone
The telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone, oh

Oh, mother, oh, mother, mother, mother
Mother, mother, mother, mother, mother

Don't tell the director I said so
But are you safe Miss Gradenko
We were at a policy meeting
They were planning new ways of cheating
I didn't want to rock your boat
But you sent this dangerous note

You've been letting your feelings show
Are you safe, Miss Gradenko
Miss Gradenko, are you safe
Are you safe, Miss Gradenko
Miss Gradenko, are you safe

Is anybody alive in here, is anybody alive in here
Is anybody at all in here - nobody but us in here, nobody but us
Is anybody alive in here - nobody but us

Your uniform don't seem to fit
You're much too alive in it

You've been letting your feelings show
Are you safe, Miss Gradenko
Miss Gradenko, are you safe

Is anybody alive in here, is anybody alive in here
Is anybody at all in here - nobody but us in here, nobody but us
Is anybody alive in here, is anybody alive in here
Is anybody at all in here - nobody but us in here, nobody but us

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 the 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 headlight
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs 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, many miles away

Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you

Every single day
And 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
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but it's you I can't replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby please

Oh, can't you see you belong to me
How my poor heart aches with every step you take

Every move you make
And 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, I'll be watching you, I'll be watching you
I'll be watching you, I'll be watching you, I'll be watching you
I'll be watching you, I'll be watching you, I'll be watching 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 inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles, running round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

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

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles, running round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll 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 - that's my soul up there
There's a dead salmon frozen in a water fall - that's my soul up there
There's a blue whale beached by a spring tide's ebb - that's my soul up there
There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web - that's my soul up there

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

There's a king on 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

King of pain

There's a red fox torn by a huntman's pack - that's my soul up there
There's a black winged gull with a broken back - that's my soul up there
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'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the 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, I'll always be king of pain
I'll always be king of pain, I'll always be king of pain

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
Turned into a shining band of gold

I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your 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

I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger

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

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

Once that you've decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art

There really isn't any need for bloodshed
You just do it with a little more finesse
If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee
Then it avoids an awful lot of mess

Because it's murder by numbers - one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A-B-C
It's murder by numbers - one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A-B-C

Now, if you have a taste for this experience
If you're flushed with your very first success
Then you must try a twosome or a threesome
You'll find your conscience bothers you much less

Because murder is like anything you take to
It's a habit-forming need for more and more
You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a bore

Because it's murder by numbers - one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A-B-C
It's murder by numbers - one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A-B-C

Now, you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history's great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name

But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand

Because it's murder by numbers - one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A-B-C
Murder by numbers - one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A-B-C-D-E
One, two, three - A-B-C
One, two, three - A-B-C
One, two, three - A-B-C

Murder by numbers - one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A-B-C
It's murder by numbers - one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A-B-C-D-E