STING - SO LONELY

SO LONELY

STING

SONGWRITER: STING

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: STING MY SONGS

LABEL: MUSIC WORLD

GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL

YEAR: 2019

 

            Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984, and launched a solo career in 1985. He has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age and worldbeat in his music.

             As a solo musician and a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take", three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2019, he received a BMI Award for "Every Breath You Take" becoming the most played song in radio history. In 2002, Sting received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording. In 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music. He was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014, and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2017.

            With the Police, Sting became one of the world's best-selling music artists. Solo and with the Police combined, he has sold over 100 million records. In 2006, Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters. He was 63rd of VH1's 100 greatest artists of rock, and 80th of Q magazine's 100 greatest musical stars of the 20th century. He has collaborated with other musicians on songs such as "Money for Nothing" with Dire Straits, "Rise & Fall" with Craig David, "All for Love" with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, "You Will Be My Ain True Love" with Alison Krauss, and introduced the North African music genre raï to Western audiences through the hit song "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami. In 2018, he released the álbum 44/876, a collaboration with Jamaican musician Shaggy, which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2019.

             The songs are still great and presumably the assumption is that many people who have invested in a CD player since the time of the last retrospective will welcome a fresh chance to buy in to this superb legacy. As a straight-down-the-line exercise in milking the market, 'Greatest Hits' thus takes some beating.

               "So Lonely" is a song by English rock band The Police, released as the third and final single in November 1978 from their debut studio album Outlandos d'Amour (1978), and again in February 1980 as a re-release. The song uses a reggae style, and featured Sting on lead vocals.

"So Lonely" has since been covered by a variety of artists, such as Limbeck and The Militia Group.

            The song is known for a famous mondegreen where the title is often misheard as "Sue Lawley", a broadcaster famous for presenting Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 from 1988 to 2006.

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, so lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely

 

Now no one's knocked upon my door

For a thousand years or more

All made 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, so lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely

 

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

 

Lonely, I'm so lonely

I feel so alone

I feel low

I feel so

Feel so low

I feel low, low

I feel low, low, low

I feel low, low, low

I feel low, low, low

I feel low, low, low

I feel low, low, low

Low, I feel low

I feel low

I feel low

I feel so lonely

I feel so lonely

I feel so lonely, lonely, lonely, lone

Lonely, lone

I feel so alone, yeah

 

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

(I feel so alone, I feel so alone, I feel so lonely)

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

(I feel so alone, I feel so alone, I feel so lonely)

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

(I feel so alone, I feel so alone, I feel so lonely)

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

(I feel so alone, I feel so alone, I feel so lonely)

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

(I feel so alone, I feel so alone, I feel so lonely)

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely.