Lyrics
by Sting
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Author: StingEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-23
ISBN: 0385339879
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: The Dial Press
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Book Review: _Lyrics_ met my every expectation and more
Summary: 5 Stars
_Lyrics_ by Sting is a book of, naturally enough, Sting song lyrics. Some of the lyrics are for songs I've never heard here in the U.S., and wonder if they made it onto albums in the U.K. or elsewhere. At any rate, it's a joy to have them in this compilation.
There is no sheet music with the lyrics. They are presented as plain text, just as if they were poetry. And to some more than others, at least some of these will stand up as poems. And to many of us, they will stand up as self-activating harbingers of happy memories and therefore really happy reads. For me, the latter mode of reading them suits me more than the former, trying to fit song lyrics in poetic pigeonholes. I'm for the good read.
It is, of course, very handy to have Sting's own version of the lyrics to songs one has wondered about for perhaps years. I had, since college, mistaken a certain lyric in "King of Pain"... but I won't tell you. It's just *too* embarrassing.
The book is a reasonable size, and the typeface is big enough that I don't have to take off my glasses to read it, and they're moderately strong.
On a more personal note, I wanted to get this for completeness' sake, for I love and respect Sting, as a singer myself (four years with the Harvard Glee Club and years' more choral singing later on). And as one prone to having dramatic visions on occasion, I've been blessed with visions of Sting quite a few times, since I was just a few years old and he was unknown to the general world until a few weeks ago at last meeting. The visions have a validity of their own kind, though if you asked Sting in a normal frame of consciousness whether he remembered any of those experiences he'd probably send you to the funny farm. And then me. Or maybe me first. Or maybe just me. But at any rate, they make me feel especially connected with him, without my making too much out of the visions. There's an amazing amount of psychic ability in my family history, so why shouldn't I share in it? At any rate, it was another reason I purchased the book. There will be many reasons people will want a book like this, "from the sublime to the ridiculous" as they say. Let your reason(s) be your own, or share them, but this is certainly a book with many memories of many kinds attached, memories of vast numbers of people who have shared these songs. Prepare to be haunted -- perhaps even by a vision of Sting. :)
Summary of Lyrics
From the first Police album, Outlandos D'Amour, through Sacred Love, here are the collected lyrics written by Sting, along with his commentary.Theory, Composition & Performance Books
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