The Police "Synchronicity II" (1983)

"Synchronicity II" is a song by the Police, and the third single from their album 'Synchronicity.' Written by lead singer and bassist Sting, it was released as a single in the UK and the U.S. by A&M Records, reached No. 17 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1983.
Lyrics:
Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake
Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today,
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts in a red light street,
But all he ever thinks to do is watch,
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish loch
Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now, looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away

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Complaints of a generation my kids belong to? Making 'us' responsible for their own inadequacies?
If you only knew how much 'anger' we had to deal with. Only we didn't know how to feel sorry for ourselves.
A strong text, surely justified on many levels, but never to condemn those, who you could call victims of
their own circumstances.
Blaming can never be the answer. I still see it worth to make the effort for communication and tolerance.
Thanks Mark for another meaningful & rousing upload.

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And thanks for the insightful comments, Karin. Hope you're doing well!