Wrapped Around Your Finger

Wrapped Around Your Finger

Infobox Single
Name = Wrapped Around Your Finger


Artist = The Police
from Album = Synchronicity
Released = start date|1983|7 UKstart date|1984|1 US
Format = 7", 12"
Recorded = 1983
Genre = New Wave
Length = 5:13
Chart position = * #7 (UK)
* #8 (US Billboard Hot 100)
Label = A&M - AM 127
Writer = Sting
Producer = The Police
NoReviews = Yes
Last single = "Every Breath You Take" (1983)
This single = "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (1983)
Next single = "Synchronicity II" (1983)Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Background = white


Lower caption = French 7-inch single cover"Wrapped Around Your Finger" is the second UK single from The Police's 1983 album "Synchronicity". It was released worldwide by A&M Records and featured non-album track "Someone To Talk To" as a b-side.

The song is a tale of an apprentice who seeks esoteric wisdom under the tutelage of a teacher, eventually superseding the mentor to become the master. Like other Police songs from this period, it features mythological and literary references, notably to the the Scylla and Charybdis monsters of Greek mythology, and the German legend of Faust. It has a relatively slow, almost foreboding feel in the beginning verses, modulating to evoke a lighter, triumphant feel as the student achieves mastery. It reached #7 in the UK charts in July 1983 and was the fourth single from "Synchronicity" to chart in the US, making it to #8 on the Billboard chart in March of 1984.

Cover versions

* On the album "Policia! - A Tribute to the Police", the metalcore band Underoath recorded this song.
* Brazilian alternative rock band Skank played an upbeat version of this song in Spanish language, titled "Estaré Prendido En Tus Dedos" ("I'll Be Bound to Your Fingers", or in the song context, a translation of the chorus line, "I'll be wrapped around your finger"), on their live album "Skank MTV ao vivo".
* Dutch alternative rock/grunge band Green Lizard did a cover version of this song on their debut album "Identity" in 2000.
* Tori Amos has covered this in concert with a simple piano arrangement of the song

Credits

*Sting - Fretless bass guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals
*Andy Summers - Guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Someone To Talk To", effects
*Stewart Copeland - Drums

Track listing

7": A&M / AM 127 (UK)

# "Wrapped Around Your Finger" - 5:07
# "Someone To Talk To" - 3:08
* also released on picture disc (AMP127). One per member.

7": A&M / AM-2614 (US)

# "Wrapped Around Your Finger" -
# "Tea in the Sahara" (Live) -

12": A&M / AMX 127 (UK)

# "Wrapped Around Your Finger" - 5:07
# "Someone To Talk To" - 3:08
# "Message In A Bottle" (Live) - 4:52
# "I Burn For You" - 4:50

12": A&M / SP17264 (US)

# "Wrapped Around Your Finger" - 5:07
# "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (Live) - 5:21
# "Murder By Numbers" - 4:37
# "Someone To Talk To" - 3:08
* US promo 12"

References

* [http://www.cinematography.net/Pages%20DW/Candle_Effect.htm Wrapped Around Your Finger] - technical notes on the music video from director Daniel Pearl.

External links

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