STING: A friend of mine bought a sheet of lyrics for "Roxanne" that had turned up in a collection of memorabilia, and he asked me to verify if it was genuine. Others had been composed while touring, and some were created during rehearsals or while recording. Some of the songs had been written for my previous band, Last Exit, and adapted for the new one. We had been together as a band for roughly a year by then. STING: Our first album as the Police was recorded piecemeal in a rundown studio above a dairy in Leatherhead. Eliot, “These fragments I have shored against my ruins.” I can't predict the outcome, but I have taken this risk knowingly and, while no one in their right mind should ever attempt to set “The Waste Land” to music, in the hopeful words of T. No doubt some of them will perish in the cold cruelty of this new environment, and yet others may prove more resilient and become perhaps more beautiful in their naked state. My wares have neither been sorted nor dressed in clothes that do not belong to them indeed, they have been shorn of the very garments that gave them their shape in the first place.
I have set out my compositions in the sequence they were written and provided a little background when I thought it might be illuminating. So it seems I am entering, with some trepidation, the unadorned realm of the poet. And while I've never seriously described myself as a poet, the book in your hands, devoid as it is of any musical notation, looks suspiciously like a book of poems. Nevertheless, the exercise has been an interesting one, seeing, perhaps for the first time, how successfully the lyrics survive on their own and inviting the question as to whether song lyrics are in fact poetry or something else entirely. The two, lyrics and music, have always been mutually dependent, in much the same way as a mannequin and a set of clothes are dependent on each other separate them, and what remains is a naked dummy and a pile of cloth. Publishing my lyrics separately from their musical accompaniment is something that I've studiously avoided until now. The book includes an introduction as well as photographs from each period of Sting's career. “Lyrics,” by Sting, features lyrics to more than 100 songs, presented in chronological order from the first Police album, “Outlandos D'Amour,” to Sting's most recent solo rock album, “Sacred Love.” Sting has also penned original commentary about his writing process, the inspiration behind the albums and the evolution of his career as a songwriter.
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