The Police's frontman, Sting, has said the song should not be interpreted as a love song. "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite," Sting told BBC Radio 2.
According to The Independent, the song was partly inspired by Sting's separation from his first wife, Frances Tomelty, and the beginning of his relationship with Tomelty's best friend, Trudie Styler. While going through his divorce and the very public affair, Sting spent time in Jamaica to escape from it all, and where he ultimately wrote "Every Breath You Take."
"The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting," said Sting in a 1993 interview with The Independent. "It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realize at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control."
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