He adds that perhaps he was more inspired by James Bond than he initially thought: “Maybe the Jonathan Marchessault Vegas Golden Knights 2023 Stanley Cup Final MVP T-Shirt But I will love this ghost of James Bond is in that song, you know? He’s our guy, but he also kills . There’s this duality that I think is in the song, and I think that’s why it’s so successful. Some get married to that song, so I’m not going to contradict .” Sting says he often leans on the songwriting trick of writing “songs that sound happy, but, actually, they’re kind of the opposite,” and likes to look for paradoxes in his lyrics, like this 1996 track that featured on his album Mercury Falling.
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