Lyrics

by Sting

Book Overview

The first-ever compendium of Stings lyrics covers the period from the Polices 1978 debut album through his solo career and including his work on the 2003 CD Sacred Love. The book also features Stings... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385339879
• ISBN13: 9780385339872
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Dial Press
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

EXCELENT

THE BOOK BRINGS EVERY STING LYRICS WE LOVE. THE ISSUE IS GORGEUS AND THE QUALITY IS UNIQUE!!!!

Can Lyrics And Art Become As One?

This book was first released in 1991, as a part of the big lavish box that was called: "Sting ~ Acoustic Live In Newcastle." Inside that box was a CD of a concert in Newcastle, England. My very favorite snippet of my favorite batch of live Sting recordings. Roberto Gligorov, designed this wonderful book, wrapping his art around Sting's great lyrics so we are now able to have fantasic 'visions' of Sting's words presented for our eyes. Twenty five songs are featured here, and they are expanded with fine visuals into something even more unique. With pen & ink, watercolors, oils, Photographs and early computer images, {1991, the Stone-Age for that medium!} these words by Sting, are transformed and they increase in scope and color. The only other book of this sort that I have come across was about The Beatles, {if you have found other rock and pop artists that have been presented in this fashion, please leave me a comment!} This book showcases a great new way to observe what music can be for us, the listener. If you ever wondered just what was going on at the: "Island of Souls" or why: "We Work The Black Seam Together." Here in this book, is the place to bring it more into or out-of focus. Art, IS only what you perceive, within itself. This book is like jumping into the deep end of the pool for some, for others they may find these waters cool and refreshing. These visuals are an opinion, we may agree or disagree as much as we like, but if we are so lucky, we may find something new and refreshing within. Sting, likes this book plenty, and so do I, art is cool and fun sometimes! 4.5 Stars!!!

_Lyrics_ met my every expectation and more

_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. :)

Wonderful and Fun read

I really love this book. Sting's lyrics are pure poetry. To read the lyrics alone without the music deepens it's meaning and i found my self later adding the music in my head and thinking of how the music stands alone as well. At times i would be singing out loud embarrassing my husband in borders.LOL And it is interesting to hear how some of the songs were created or brought to life. I am buying one book for myself and one for a friend.

What artist isn't a bit of a narcissist?

Sting is one of the few artists of our time that still produces fresh music after 30 years in the business. Having been a avid fan for nearly 20 of those years, I'm grateful that he has pulled this book together. Many times I have wondered what inspired songs like Spirits in the Material World, Fields of Gold, Inside, Shape of my Heart, etc. Many of his songs represent a certain time in my life, so its good to understand his creative process, simple or complexed. As far as Sting being a narissist, well what artist isn't? Some a little more than others, but that's okay because that's why we buy their music and go to their concerts.