10 Songs With Meanings That Are Completely Misunderstood
3. Every Breath You Take By The Police Isn't About Love OR Stalking
The Police's Every Breath You Take is probably the most commonly cited example of a song with a misunderstood meaning. For everyone blissfully ignorant of how creepy its lyrics are there's two dozen people waiting to leap in and explain that the song is actually about Sting stalking his ex-wife. Sadly, those people are completely wrong too.
According to the man himself, Every Breath You Take was written in the Caribbean. Sting woke up in the middle of the night with the line every breath you take, every move you make in his head, and finished writing it in about half an hour.
Here's where it gets interesting, though. Sting actually claims that he was thinking about Big Brother while writing it, and that the intention was for it to depict a totalitarian surveillance state, in which all of society is watched 24/7.