“Synchronicity II” – what’s with the part about the Scottish lake?
I just downloaded the Police’s “Synchronicity II” off iTunes. As I listened to it, I got to wondering about the lyrics. The verses portray the mundanity of life, but the choruses talk about something happening in some faraway Scottish lake. What’s the connection?
Mr.Blue_Sky
Sting is comparing the man about to mental with the monster in the lake about to attack some poor hapless schmoe in the cabin near the lake.
At least, that’s the way I see it.
Revtim
I took it as the Loch Ness Monster, which represents the narrator’s rising insanity.
vibrotronica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity refers to Carl Jungs “acausal connecting principle.” Basically, everything is interconnected and things that seem like coincidences really aren’t coincidences. The two story threads of the song–a man’s mundane day and the Loch Ness monster doing…whatever the hell she’s doing–seem to be totally independant phenomenon but are actually connected by a mysterious “spooky action at a distance” force. Hence the title.
Futile_Gesture
The idea of Synchronicity is that everything is interconnected, no matter how irreleveant to each other they may appear. “Synchronicity II” is the tale of a stressed-out man playing his part in the rat race and supressing his anger and rage. Consequently this rage manifests itself as something stirring many miles away in a dark Scottish lake.
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePolice/comments/l1zic3/meaning_of_synchronicity_ii/