Released: April 7, 1978
Songwriter: Sting
Producer: The Police
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne
You don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right
[Pre-Chorus]
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
[Chorus]
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light, oh
[Verse 2]
I loved you since I knew you
I wouldn't talk down to ya
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your make up
Told you once
I won't tell you again it's a bad way
[Pre-Chorus]
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
[Outro]
(Roxanne) You don't have
To put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) You don't have
To put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
[Verse 1]
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne
You don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right
[Pre-Chorus]
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
[Chorus]
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light, oh
[Verse 2]
I loved you since I knew you
I wouldn't talk down to ya
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your make up
Told you once
I won't tell you again it's a bad way
[Pre-Chorus]
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
[Outro]
(Roxanne) You don't have
To put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) You don't have
To put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
(Roxanne) Put on the red light
more tracks from the album
Every Breath You Take: The Classics
- Roxanne
- Message in a Bottle (New Rock Mix)
- King of Pain
- Invisible Sun
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- Every Breath You Take
- Spirits in the Material World
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Don’t Stand So Close to Me
- Can’t Stand Losing You
- Walking on the Moon
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- Message in a Bottle
- Don’t Stand So Close to Me ’86
From the albums
- Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
- Every Breath You Take: The Singles (1986)
- Greatest Hits (1992)
- Every Breath You Take: The Classics (1995)
- The Police (2007)
- NOW That’s What I Call Legends [UK] (2014)
- 70s Mixtape (2018)
The Police popular songs
- Every Breath You Take
- Roxanne
- Don’t Stand So Close to Me
- Message in a Bottle
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- Synchronicity II
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- King of Pain
- Walking on the Moon
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Can’t Stand Losing You
- So Lonely
- Synchronicity I
- Murder by Numbers
- Bring on the Night
- Invisible Sun
- Spirits in the Material World
- Canary in a Coalmine
- The Bed’s Too Big Without You
- Driven to Tears
- Tea in the Sahara
- Next to You
- Walking in Your Footsteps
- I Burn for You