Released: June 17, 1983
Songwriter: Sting
Producer: The Police Hugh Padgham
[Verse 1]
You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger
I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turn into a shining band of gold
[Chorus]
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
[Verse 2]
Mephistopheles is not your name
I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your tuition
You will see it come to its fruition
[Chorus]
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
[Verse 3]
Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air, you'll never find me
I will turn your face to alabaster
When you find your servant is your master
[Outro]
Oh, you'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
Ohh
You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger
I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turn into a shining band of gold
[Chorus]
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
[Verse 2]
Mephistopheles is not your name
I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your tuition
You will see it come to its fruition
[Chorus]
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger
[Verse 3]
Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air, you'll never find me
I will turn your face to alabaster
When you find your servant is your master
[Outro]
Oh, you'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger
Ohh
The Police
- Roxanne
- Bring on the Night
- Walking in Your Footsteps
- Tea in the Sahara
- Murder by Numbers
- Next to You
- So Lonely
- Hole in My Life
- Driven to Tears
- Canary in a Coalmine
- Voices Inside My Head
- Demolition Man
- Reggatta de Blanc
- Synchronicity I
- King of Pain
- Message in a Bottle
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- Walking on the Moon
- Can’t Stand Losing You
- Don’t Stand So Close to Me
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Spirits in the Material World
- Every Breath You Take
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- Invisible Sun
- Synchronicity II
- Truth Hits Everybody
- Synchronicity (1983)
- Every Breath You Take: The Singles (1986)
- Greatest Hits (1992)
- Every Breath You Take: The Classics (1995)
- 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