679 - The Police Synchronicity II 1983

"Synchronicity II" is a song by The Police that has been described as aggressive and steely. It was recorded in 1983 and was included on their hit album "Synchronicity".
The song, which refers to Carl Jung's theory of Synchronicity, nominally tells the story of an emasculated husband and harried father whose home, work life, and environment are terrible and depressing. In an early stretch of lyrics we find "Grandmother screaming at the wall" (family trouble/mental illness), as well as "mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration, but we know all her suicides are fake" (nagging, unhappy spouse). Later, we hear about the man humiliated by his boss, all the while he "knows that something somewhere has to break". Meanwhile something monstrous is emerging from a "dark Scottish lake/loch"— perhaps a parallel to the industrial and suburban angst, or to the father's own inner anguish. In "Synchronicity II" lead guitarist Andy Summers "forgoes the pretty clean sounds for post-apocalyptic squeals and crashing power chords," writes Matt Blackett in Guitar Player magazine.