New Sting song blasts "This War"

Knight Ridder ^ | Jonathan Takiff

[jimbo123]

Sting delivers another tasty, variegated bunch of adult rock songs on "Sacred Love" (A&M). He's playing the bad guy on "Stolen Car," empathizing with a runaway wife on "Never Coming Home," connecting with his/our romantic side on "Send Your Love" and the especially entralling "Book of My Life" and drubbing the government's war-on-everything philosophy with "This War." Good show.
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"This War"

You've got the mouth of a she wolf

Inside the mask of an innocent lamb

You say your heart is all compassion

But there's just a flat line on your cardiogram

Yet you always made a profit baby

If it was a famine or a feast

Yes, I'm the soul of indiscretion,

I was cursed with x-ray vision,

I could see right through all the lies you told,

When you smiled for the television

And you can see the coming battle

You pray the drums will never cease

And you may win this war that's coming

But would you tolerate the peace?

Investing in munitions
And those little cotton flags

Invest in wooden caskets

In guns and body bags, guns and body bags

Your daddy was a businessman

And it always made good sense

You know the war can make you rich my friend

In dollars, pounds and cents

In the temple that was Mammon's
You were ordained the parish priest

Yes you may win this coming battle

But could you tolerate the peace?

Invest in deadly weapons

And those little cotton flags

Invest in wooden caskets

In guns and body bags

You're invested in oppression

Investing in corruption

Invest in every tyranny

And the whole world's destruction

I imagine there's a future

When all the earthly wars are over

You may find yourself just standing there

On the white cliffs of Dover

You may ask, what does it profit a man

To gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

Is that your body you see on the rocks below

As the tide begins to roll?

And you invested in this prison

From which you never got released

You may have won this war we're fighting

But would you tolerate the peace?

There's a war on our democracy

A war on our dissent

There's a war inside religion

And what Jesus might have meant

There's a war on mother nature

A war upon the seas

There's a war upon the forests

On the birds and the bees

There's a war on education

A war on information

A war between the sexes

And every nation

A war on our compassion

A war on understanding

A war on love and life itself

It's war that they're demanding

Make it easy on yourself

And don't do nothing

[jimbo123]

Boycott time.

[Leroy S. Mort]

That settles it. No more Sting LP's on my Victrola.

[sheltonmac]

Sorry. I like his music too much.

[Argus]

It makes about as much sense as "Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah, ting-tang, walla-walla bing-bang." It used to be funny on Steve Allen's show, when he'd read out idiotic rock lyrics as if they were Shakespeare. Sting's lyrics are devoid of thought, so why bother boycotting him? It just gets him more publicity.

[Bommer]

A war on love and life itself

Saddams rape rooms and mass graves seem to contridict this schmucks lyric, yes?

[Grando Calrissian]

Too bad Sting hasn't been relevant since 1983.

[cake_crumb]

I haven't listened to him in ages. He was good. Not much of a singer, but a great poet and creative genius in his way.

Now he's gone the way of the rest of the aging crowd of stars and is desperately trying to march in lockstep with what all aging lefties hope is still the fashionable anti-war movement, in a vain attempt to recapture his own lost youth. No originality. No genius.

Really sad.

[Steve_Seattle]

Yes, Sting seems very confused, confused to the point of silliness - a war against Saddam is a war against love and life?

[Steve_Seattle]

What really bugs me about these rockers is the way they take their freedom for granted, as if it just happened somehow. They have no historical sense whatsoever. They are willfully ignorant, just to please the liberal masses and sell records.

[cake_crumb]

I'd like to see him spend a few months in Iraq, interacting with the people in the tea and barber shops. I'd suggest the video shop that sold evidence of Saddam's atrocities, but someone blew it up yesterday (Iraq time).

He of all people could write a song which captures their suffering under the Saddam regime.

[Billthedrill]

There's a war on mother nature
A war upon the seas
There's a war upon the forests
On the birds and the bees

Good God, this is excruciating. This guy used to have talent.

[Spiff]

Stuck Fing!!!

[Dan from Michigan]

Sting's still around?

[aculeus]

[sirchtruth]

As usual this is just another lefty Bush bash...Silly stuckup arrogant prude has his talent, but enamers on with the lies and BS of the left.

So sad to see such talent go to waste in the notes of idiocy.

[Indiana Jones]

Some of his music has been pretty good in the past.Maybe Sting could be the inspiration for a Laura Ingraham sequel - "Shut Up & Hum."

[cake_crumb]

"They have no historical sense whatsoever. They are willfully ignorant, just to please the liberal masses and sell records"

Their own excessive lifestyles ruin them, along with the need to be more and more and MORE sensitive so they can compete in a market of others claiming equal or better "sensitivity". The natural sensitivity of the artist is lost when it becomes a competition. I REALLY loved his music, and mourn his loss. I always knew he was a vain man, but for some reason, hoped he'd find ways to overcome that and age gracefully.

Like Stephen Tyler. I always had a crush on him, LOL...I once dated a man who'd gone to AA with him. That's the closest I've ever gotten to being a groupie.

[Orangedog]

I like his music...not real crazy about his politics. I'd buy his CD, but he won't get my vote for dog catcher or any other elected office. Just like Reagan would get my vote, but I don't think you could pay me to listen to him sing ;)

[hobblemaster]

He retired, so he became Stung.

[iopscusa]

The ignorant RANT-that is all that is left of this wash'd out old no-talent fool! I never liked his music anyway.
Far as I care, let him rot in H____!