1474 - The Police Don't Stand So Close To Me 1980

"Don't Stand So Close to Me" is a hit single by the British rock band The Police. It concerns a schoolgirl's crush on her young teacher and the teacher's nervousness about the situation. "Don't Stand So Close to Me" appeared on The Police's album "Zenyatta Mondatta" and became a hit 'No.1' UK single.

1131 - The Police So Lonely 1978

"So Lonely" is a song by The Police, appearing on the 1978 studio album Outlandos d'Amour and released as a single in November 1978. Sting has admitted that he used Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry" as the basis for this song: "People thrashing out three chords didn't really interest us musically. Reggae was accepted in punk circles and musically more sophisticated, and we could play it, so we veered off in that direction. I mean let's be honest here, 'So Lonely' was unabashedly culled from 'No Woman No Cry' by Bob Marley. Same chorus. What we invented was this thing of going back and forth between thrash punk and reggae. That was the little niche we created for ourselves".

934 - The Police Message in a Bottle 1979

"Message in a Bottle" is a 1979 song by The Police, from their second album, "Reggatta de Blanc". This song is about a guy stranded on a remote island. One day he finds a bottle, puts a message in it and throws it out to sea in hopes that someone will find it and come save him. The lyrics can be seen as a metaphor for being lonely and realizing there are lots of people just like you.
Sting (from 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh): "I think the lyrics are subtle and well crafted enough to hit people on a different level from something you just sing along to. It's quite a cleverly put together metaphor. It develops and has an artistic shape to it." Guitarist Andy Summers said it was the best track he ever played on.

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.