10 Love Songs That Are Actually Incredibly Dark
4. Every Breath You Take - The Police
To this day, The Police's Every Breath You Take has been one of the biggest songs in pop music history. Using a simple premise for a song, Sting took the few chords that everyone knows and loves from the past decades of rock music and turned them into this beautiful song about following your crush around everywhere they go. It may have been cute at the time, but you're actually listening to something a lot more sinister if you so much as look at the lyrics for a second.
Going through every line of the song, the word "love" is never mentioned once, with Sting just saying that he will be watching this girl with every breath and move she makes in life. He even talks about longing for her embrace and dreaming to see her even more in the future. We never hear about this nameless person's feelings, and that's when you start putting the pieces together. This isn't a love song... this is a stalker that is looking to feed on his prey to get what he wants.
The irony wasn't lost on Sting either, going so far as to admit that there's something quite wicked going on in this song and finding it strange how so many people connected with this really messed up story. If anything, this is actually a warning sign to listeners everywhere to pay attention to what they're singing along to. Because if you're not hanging on every word, there's a good chance that you're singing along to something just as sinister as you heard just now.