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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 23:16:00 -0500
From: QUENNEVILLE CRAIG
Subject: CRD: p/police/king_of_pain.crd
Title: King of Pain
Artist: The Police
Songwriter: Sting
My Name: Craig Quenneville (e0fvyczs@mail.erin.utoronto.ca)
This is my first attempt at submitting anything to OLGA. Hope
this makes the cut. This is only a bunch of chords and lyrics,
sorry, no tabs. The solo is pretty easy, but no guitar with
me right now. Just play around with the bottom E and B strings
and you'll figure it out!
Chords x-don't play X-mute string
Bm D G A C#sus C#m
xx4432 xx0232 320003 x02220 xx6674 xx2120
Gmaj7 A/D G6 D/F# A/G F#m
3X0002 xx0220 320000 2X023X 3X2220 xx4222
F#m7 Fmaj7 E7 Eb Eb7 D9
xx2222 xx3210 020100 xx5343 xx1323 x54555
D9/F#
2X021X
KING OF PAIN
Bm A Bm A Bm A Bm A
There's a little black spot on the sun to-day
G A G A C#sus C#m Gmaj7
It's the same old thing as yes - ter - day
Bm A Bm A Bm A Bm A
There's a black hat caught in the high tree top
G A G A C#sus C#m Gmaj7
There's a flagpole rag and the wind won't stop
A/D G6 D/F# G
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
A/D G6 D/F# G
with the world turning cir-cles running 'round my brain.
A/D G6 D/F# G
I guess I'm always hop-ing that you'll end this reign
A/D G6 D/F# G
but it's my destiny to be the king of pain.
Bm
There's a little black spot on the sun today
that's my soul up there
A/G
It's the same old thing as yesterday
F#m G
that's my soul up there
Bm
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
that's my soul up there
A/G
There's a flagpole rag and the wind won't stop
F#m G
that's my soul up there
D G
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
D G
with the world turning circles running 'round my brain.
D G
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
D G
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain.
Bm
There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall
that's my soul up there
A
There's a dead salmon frozen in a water fall
F#m G
that's my soul up there
Bm
There's a blue whale beached by a springtide's ebb
that's my soul up there
A/G
There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web
F#m G
that's my soul up there
D G
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
D G
with the world turning circles running 'round my brain
D G
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
D G
but it's my destiny tro be the king of pain.
G
There's a king of pain.
A G
There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out
A G
There's a blindman looking for a shadow of doubt;
A G
There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed
A D/G Bm
There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread.
guitar solo
Bm
There's a red fox torn by a huntsmen's pack
that's my soul up there
A/G
There's a black winged gull with a broken back
F#m G
that's my soul up there
F#m7 Fmaj7 E7 Eb
There's a little black spot on the sun today
F#m7 Fmaj7 Eb7 D9 D9/F#
It's the same old thing as yes - ter - day
D G
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
D G
with the world turning circles running 'round my brain
D G
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
D G D
but it's my destiny to be the king of pain
G D
King of pain (fade out throwing in
"I will always be..")
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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btotherizzad Average |
#1 by btotherizzad moriznad at Oct 25, 1979 at 12:55 PM EST |
| The first two lines say a lot. "There's a little black spot on the sun today. That's my soul up there." Meaning it's so small, that no one notices. This guy is depressed but rarely lets it out. He is the king of pain. He always thought somebody could help cure him of this but he knows it won't happen. He seems to find beauty in the dissonance. Great song, too. | |
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Secondhand Smok Wanna Be |
#2 by Secondhand Smoka at Jun 22, 1986 at 9:02 PM EST |
| I think it is interesting that the actual symbols of pain in this song all refer to animals rather than humans...almost as if the Law of the Jungle ultimate presence has captivated his sense of sorrow. Events that have no logic to them, but simultaneously cause a few horrible moments of extreme loneliness as the cloak of darkness spreads around them and there is nothing that can be done to stop what is unfolding. Its almost as if he can place himself in their place (soul) and consequently realizes that it will be the same tomorrow. And it seems to all get related to how a person may go out - from a golden bed to being alone choking on a crust of bread. A song about mortality and the loneliness of it. | |
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brian Average |
#3 by brian haun at Feb 22, 1990 at 10:42 AM EST |
| Most of the symbols are pretty generic, but could the king on the throne be Oedipus? | |
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Chris Badass |
#4 by Chris Phillips at Mar 10, 1997 at 6:48 AM EST |
| some pescimist views everything about him in a morbid fascination...(not unlike that bohunk from american beauty). why so much pain...i don't think that sting ever was tortured in iran in a nazi prison camp. go to hell bastard. | |
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randy Professional |
#5 by randy taylor at Jul 4, 1999 at 2:24 AM EST |
| Sting wrote this following his separation from Frances. At the time, he was also not getting along with Stewart and Andy. Sting wrote this in Jamaica at the house where Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond books. Sting: "I conjured up symbols of pain and related them to my soul. A black spot on the sun struck me as being a very painful image." This was a tough song to record. Sting didn't accept most of the suggestions from Andy Summers and Stuart Copeland. The Police recorded this on the Caribbean Island of Monserrat. There was a great deal of tension in the band, and this was their last album. | |
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KELSO Wanna Be |
#6 by KELSO Is a COOL kid at Nov 26, 1999 at 3:13 PM EST |
| There are 15 examples of "pain" listed in the song. If the context of this album, they might be seen not only as symbols, but as examples of synchronicity: The singer hurts in ways similar to the people, animals, and objects in the examples. All of the examples involve a verb in the present tense, so you might imagine the various events and states happening "now". | |
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Laurence Average |
#7 by Laurence Alam at Apr 28, 2000 at 6:14 PM EST |
| It's about a guy who has a severe case of the sorrows, so everything he sees around him is painful and ugly and depressing and hopeless | |
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josh Average |
#8 by josh stagel at Sep 24, 2001 at 4:35 PM EST |
| I love this song. It is about being depressed, but the morbid things you notice when you are depressed. Also how difficult it is to come out of depression. | |
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micheal Lead Player |
#9 by micheal mceachern at Aug 15, 2002 at 7:12 PM EST |
| Somehow, this song seems to be about Satan wrestling with his "personality". I think by him talking about "I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign" Satan wishes his id wasn't so out of control, or that he had a stronger ego and superego to supplement the fact that he is evil incarnate. Of course, this is indeed a paradox because if Satan is indeed a sociopath, then he wouldn't have any sort of a ego/superego to temper his thoughts about wanting to stop doing evil his entire existence. But, maybe, by some miracle, he finally develops a conscience and starts to look at his "role" differently. The other reason why I think it's Satan talking is that of all the bad things that are being described in this song, there is a refrain stating "it's my soul up there", meaning that he was involved in every bad event that happened. Plus, it's his destiny to be the king of pain... | |
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Gary Wanna Be |
#10 by Gary Rossington at Apr 10, 2003 at 3:45 AM EST |
| I think it's just Sting ranting about being lonely and depressed again | |
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