Released: June 1, 1983
Songwriter: Sting
Producer: The Police Hugh Padgham
[Verse 1]
My sisters and I
Have one wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession
[Chorus]
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
[Verse 2]
The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
They wait for him here
The same place every year
Beneath the sheltering sky
Across the desert he would fly
[Chorus]
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
[Verse 3]
The sky turned to black
Would he ever come back?
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups still full of sand
[Chorus]
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
[Outro]
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
My sisters and I
Have one wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession
[Chorus]
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
[Verse 2]
The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
They wait for him here
The same place every year
Beneath the sheltering sky
Across the desert he would fly
[Chorus]
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
[Verse 3]
The sky turned to black
Would he ever come back?
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups still full of sand
[Chorus]
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
[Outro]
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
- Synchronicity (1983)
- Greatest Hits (1992)
- The Police (2007)
- 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