The Police.....Invisible Sun - Still Relevant

[1srelluc]

Different "troubles" but the lyrics still seem relevant. Maybe even more so now than before, for a completely different reason.

The Armilite has been relegated to collector status now but I suspect there's more than a few stashed away from the former "troubles".




The Police - Invisible Sun

[Verse 1]
I don't wanna spend the rest of my life
Lookin' at the barrel of an Armalite
I don't wanna spend the rest of my days
Keepin' outta trouble like the soldiers say

[Verse 2]
I don't wanna spend my time in hell
Lookin' at the walls of a prison cell
I don't ever wanna play the part
Of a statistic on a government chart

[Chorus]
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

[Verse 3]
It's dark all day and it glows all night
Factory smoke and acetylene light
I face the day with my head caved in
Lookin' like somethin' that the cat brought in

[Chorus]
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

[Verse 4]
And they're only gonna change this place
By killin' everybody in the human race
They would kill me for a cigarette
But I don't even wanna die just yet

[Chorus]
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Off the same album (Not a dud front to back on this one). And also more than relevant today.

 

[1srelluc]

Off the same album (Not a dud front to back on this one). And also more than relevant today.

Sounds pretty "duddy" to me.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Sounds pretty "duddy" to me.

To each their own. The whole album was a winner.

 

[odanny]

Sting's father was a lifelong fisherman, caught Sole, and since these are bottom feeding fish in the Irish Sea and English Channel, they are caught in baited cages, he wrote this song in tribute to his father after his death, one of my favorite Sting songs.

 

[WillyT2]

Invisible Sun was one of the first MTV videos that did not feature the band in the images.

Remained pretty rare for quite a while. (Think Duran Duran, etc.)

I've always loved that song and that video.

 

[odanny]

Here is the kind of opening to a music video you rarely see:

 

[1srelluc]

Here is the kind of opening to a music video you rarely see: