Synchronicity Ii Lyrics - Sting

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 

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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 lake 

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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 the 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