Talk:Wrapped Around Your Finger

Death?
I disagree with the summary and with the idea that the song is about death. I think it is about subservience and power.


 * Yeah, I don't see the death references either. Maybe Sting's editing his own wikipedia stuff to confound us! Globe199 05:40, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. This sort of thing doesn't seem to have any source for this theory. As in say, the band disclosing this information in an interview, or something like that. It really should be removed as it seems to be mere speculation. Adriene


 * Mephistophleles has no direct connection to death, neither do the names of flowers mentioned in the begining.

Song Meaning "Wrapped Around Your Finger"
In the beginning of the song, scilia and charybdis are not flowers. Scilia and Charybdis are characters found in greek mythology. Both characters destroyed sailers on the ocean and there was no way to avoid passing by at least one of them. Scilia was a six headed sea monster and Charybdis a whirlpool that would destroy ships and it's crew. In Homer's "Odyssey", Odiseus had to make a choice which "monster" he would pass by, knowing that he would lose crew members, no matter which way he went. Today, the term "Caught between Scilia and Charybdis" is used to say "Caught between a rock and a hard place." In this song, a student is torn between his relationship with his master/mentor and his patience, which will inevidabley make him more powerful and knowledgable than his master. His patience and learning comes to it's "fruition" and the student and master soon learn that "your servant is your master." By patience, the student learns all he can and becomes more powerful than his master, which in itself, defeats the master, but not neccesarily through death.-- ~

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Meaning
"Staring at the ring around you finger" and "I have only come here seeking knowledge, the kind they would not teach me of in college" tend to make me think that this is about the singer's sexual apprenticeship with a married woman. The turning of her face to alabaster, seems to lend itself to the theory that he has gotten what he wanted from her and now the "servant is your master." In a complex relationship with a married woman it seems like through some sort of potential threats or intimidation to reveal the relationship he has gained control of her. Someone please let me know if after listening to the song any different interpretations can be made.WesUGAdawg (talk) 21:42, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Possible style influence
I am curious if this song was influenced by neo-classical musician Andreas Vollenweider's albums that had been released prior to recording. There is a very strong similarity in the verse style and especially the synthesizer work. However in 1983-1984 Vollenweider was not very popular so this wouldn't have been mentioned in interviews. In any case the Andreas Vollenweider album Caverna Magica released in 1983 is great for anyone who likes the style of this song. --75.181.155.117 (talk) 04:14, 1 June 2012 (UTC)(may 2012)