It's over 30 years ago that as newly qualified teacher, I played this song to my students after reading a book set during the Pinochet regime in Chile. It's as sad and relevant today as it was then. What a sorry state our world is in. Have we learned nothing?
This is for my brother Roy ✝️💔,…He passed on in 1987,…He would have been 67yrs old but he died at the age of 31yrs old ,…My poor Mom ✝️ cried & cried ,…That’s why this song is special to me 🙁
The first time I heard this song play in 1987, I couldn't stop crying and here I am in 2021 and still can't make it through the video without crying. Thank you Sting for bring this to the world's stage and all that you continue to do for Amnesty International.
I'm on the same page. Sometimes you just have to cry. Joni wrote: "laughing and crying, it's the same release" .... The song is timeless ... Like his: "Fragile"... Wish it had Hornsby on the keys. What a combo THAT would be.
When I was a teenager our English teacher introduced us to "Englishman in New York", "Russians" and this beautiful song. Through Sting we improved our vocabulary but more important, started thinking about the world...one of the greatest musicians ever. Beautiful man with a beautiful soul. Now I make my kids listen to Sting so they get to know what great music is. Love you Sting.
Las canciones de Sting me encantan! Y esta canción la escuchaba en mi país (Colombia) tengo la oportunidad de escucharla en Chile y se siente un fuerte escalofrío! Después de tantos años de desaparecidos en este país! Que algún día descansen en paz todos aquellos que desaparecieron y sus familias!
Does Sting get the recognition he deserves? His body of work is just outstanding. Classic pop of the 80"s with the Police, masterpiece songs like this one here, amazing Jazz collaborations with Branford Marsalis and Omar Hakim. A true genius.
Raz na jakiś czas rodzi się psychopata- zbrodniarz z manią władzy nad innymi krajami.I zaczyna napadać,mordować innych.I powołuje się na Boga..19.03.2023.
The decade of the 1980s, we saw Sting morph from the wildman who jumped around talking about De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da into this amazing transcendent poet and musical messenger. What an amazing talent this man is!
Thirty-four years later, and this remains a timeless masterpiece, with a poignant message, and with Branford's brilliantly (yet equally understated) sax solo, bringing the song home, at the end. Stellar!
TIMELESS!, ALL OF HIS WORK. PERFECTION! I WAS BORN 2 DAYS AFTER HIM, AND BORN WITH A HUGE, LOVE OF MUSIC!!! LIBRAN'S!. THE STORY BEHIND THIS SONG IS SO SAD.
Sting is the only dude who made music in the 70's and early 80's that still lives up just as well in 2022, over 40 years later.. the amount of respect i have for this guy is beyond anything.
He's exceptional.. excellent. High Moral Values are of his Nature, too. The rockstar is still genuinely together with his longtime married Partner Trudy. Way to Be and Create Excellence, Mr.Sumner.
I wouldn't say the Only dude but I get what you're trying to say. There aren't many great artists like Sting who created beautiful art that still resonates...today. But Sting is one of the very best of them all.
I watched a film of him doing this song in Chile I believe, there were armed guards standing around the auditorium. There were women that came up on stage with picture of their missing. It was heart wrenching and made me very thankful for where I was born. God Bless all the people that have to live in countries that go thru this, I hope I never have to.
That was the Amnesty International tour. Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones and Branford Marsalis were on the tour with him as well. I believe he did something similar in Argentina
Both our beautiful nations have suffered under the blind ambition of cruel men. It is up to us to make sure that the ghosts of Pinochet and Peron are forever exorcised. @@juanestadian8471
I’m a son of an ex MIR combatant and both parents were tortured my mum being pregnant at the time and under age. This song kept me going through many years. Sting and Blades acknowledgement of the Pinochet dictatorship. Thank you Sting.
My dad was at estadio Victor Jarra ,pissagua ,puchuncavi, where there is or was a German museum. I went to pissagua at ten. We drove the dessert of attacama to get there
Same, that whole verse is incredible. And Sting was totally right, a couple years later the foreign money stopped, and that was basically the end of Pinochet. A shame he didn't live long enough to be executed but at least he lived long enough to be disgraced.
I know his gardeners, a bit weird I know but they are a lovely couple in their 80’s. Sting considers them as part of his family. A true gentleman in my book
Joseph Kenny Very true, when they dud the conspiracy of hope tour there was a risk to life in doing so for all those involved where the only thing that avoided an incident was probably the prospect of global hatred and revolution which would have followed
"The song is a metaphor referring to mourning Chilean women (arpilleristas) who dance the Cueca, the national dance of Chile, alone with photographs of their disappeared loved ones in their hands." Heartbreaking.
I just now tried dancing with my Grief and Anguish and I started in My weeping ilamentation to Begin moaning and bringing forth sounds from deep within me. A new way of coping skills and expression of the inevitable Journey that Lies in Wait for us ALL
Iain Little I remember in the 70s in Italy a family of political refugees from Chile stayed in my house for a few weeks. The ran away from the Pinochet fascist regime. They were killing all political rivals in football stadia.
He also dedicated this song to the mother of disappeared in Argentina. He allowed the mothers of plaza de mayo walk into the stage during a concert while he was singing this song. 30,000 people disappeared in Argentina between the ages of 15 and 60+.
Sting is to me, one of the best artistes of all time. A songwriting genius. Every song has a powerful message. Great guy. Would love to have lunch sometime so I can ask him his songwriting technique. Lol.
Ηe is by far the best pop/rock songwriter of our time.The man has written just about anything. From Jazz to Pop to reggae to theatrical stuff...He's done it all with love and respect. A true master and a genuine lover of music with no boundaries and blinkers in regards of music whatsoever.
It is impossible for me to listen to this song without weeping uncontrollably. Thank you, Sting, for eloquently and beautifully bringing this to the world. "One day we'll sing our freedom." Peace out.
Hear the complexity and classical chord phrasing of his compositions. No other artist of the rock era had such musical references. Such depth of beauty ❤
I consider Sting to be a type of Bob Marley of the soft rock era.. many of his early albums contained songs of deep social commentary..one if my favorite artists of all time.. that Sax was a key signature of his musical style..
La cueca sola es quizá la única danza en el mundo cuya expresión trae pena, tristeza, desesperanza, etc, tanto en quien la baila como en quien le observa.
I've heard this song the first time in the evening before the day, when the album "Nothing Like The Sun" came out in Germany. They played this track in a radio broadcast, where new albums have been presented. I have been so seized by this song, that tears ran in to my eyes. The next day I immediately went to the record store and bought the album ...
Sting has always been one of my favorite artists. His lyrics are literate and powerful, and he does indeed have a social conscience. I love his solo efforts as well as the work he did with The Police. This particular song never fails to make me weep.
I heard this song for the first time when I was 14 years old. I was deeply impressed by the shocking lyrics that I can not imagine from the music. I respect STING which makes such a song.
Saludos Luis Alberto. No sabía sobre la historia de la canción. Si noté que en una parte canta en español. Casi al terminar la canción, hay un cambio de ritmo, en el cual se me eriza la piel (uno, por el arreglo musical; otro, quizás por la impresión del tema de "bailar con los muertos".
De verdad por eso se dió su dedicación como parte de su campaña en contra de la dictadura y la guerra en el mundo y por algo Sting es un artista que tiene siempre su preocupación por todo lo que pasa en el mundo y éso es realmente un gran apoyo
When you hear the lyrics, music, instruments, medley, rhythm, harmonizing, etc., it makes you crave more. Good God man, here we are in 2021, why can’t today’s musicians create audible beauty like this that stirs the soul?
Maybe you should know that the socialist movement in Chile was squashed with the aid of the CIA and Mi6. The same dudes that are sponsoring your war in Ukraine. Do us a favor, dont compare. The LATAM socialist movement history is not a pretty tale to tell.
Como Chileno jamás podré agradecerle lo suficiente a Sting por exponer la violación de DDHH en Chile en el periodo de la dictadura militar (Pinochet). Las torturas y los desaparecidos. Mi amor y agradecimiento eterno para Ud. maestro!
Its been over more than 40 year since our cousin got tortured to death at Villa Grimaldi. After his death our family had to flee Chile. We are spread out in the whole world. Just a month ago my mother saw his cousin (brother of the murdered one) for the first time over 40 years. His mother 'danced alone' for years after his death. Until she passed away in Australia 20 odd years ago.
I feel you. One of the closest and most important persons in my life (my mom) still struggles not only with the poverty inherited by the right-wing policies specially for people that (for many reasons) cannot adjust to the labor market, but also with the trauma of terror, persecution and loss, to the point of having delusions and paranoia associated with it. She has even been living on the streets for a year, out of poverty and madness and I still don't have enough money to help her. I've heard she's not the only one. I have had to become used to live with a broken heart, in the face of many chileans, even young ones, who are still saying that either everything was justified, or that we should forget it already. How could we forget, if the wound is still alive, if there's still no guarantee that this will not happen again? I send you a hug from the distance, from your family's land, and from someone who is still part of that now invisible community that made us the target of selfish and powerful people to persecute and terrorize.
I am son of the Chilean dictatorship, I was brought up as an obedient son, Never get into trouble, Let alone politics, Never saw or heard anything, Specially in the news, I was told we were in war with Marxism But also I was told that we were free, Nothing could have been further from the truth Thousand of my people dead, just because of their ideas, and also because of being poor, As a country, we have no appreciation for human life in every single way, But we are the “best economy in Latinoamérica”, Uneducated, physically and mentally ill, We are into a deep relationship with deception, We don’t want to see nothing that shows out purulent past, We are no longer citizens, Actually, we never were, Just consumers,
this would have to be my personal favorite song by sting. as a kid growing up I always wondered why I was the first born Canadian out of a Spanish family. then I found out my father was a political prisoner and tortured by Pinochet. this song holds a very special place in my heart lets me know where I come from and what my family went through
Wow! I recently went to Vancouver. Many people forget the Indigenous people or immigrants like they do here in America. Your story is amazing. Thank you for sharing. I would like to see a book or movie covering this topic.❤️
STING is by far, the most AMAZING ARTIST ALIVE!!!! He has been my all time favorite since I was like 4 years old. He is beautiful and all of his songs are beautiful and they something to him. This brings back so many memories. He is all I listen to and will never stop. I would give anything to meet him. His concerts are the most incredible times I have ever had in my life. He is an ABSOLUTE Dimond in the rough.
I desperately hope that this song will be an inspiration to the Russian mothers and grandmothers who see their sons and grandsons sent to another country A leader won’t listen to foreign voices A leader won't listen to protesting students Hopefully a leader will listen to the voices of mothers and grandmothers I am deeply praying for this
Please, add your voice in reaching out to Sting and Bono for a joint concert on the new Mothers of the Disappeared in Russia and Ukraine (rescue crews unable to reach the living or the dead in Mariupol due to shelling, residents abducted into Russia) -- see th-cam.com/video/1tCLtHlzeeI/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/dqbqJYt0_X4/w-d-xo.html
One of my favourite songs from Sting. Like espacially the part at 05:30min. Good bless all "Desaparecidos" all around the world and from all totalitarian governments. Rest in Peace! Let us form a better world.
There are very few songs that reduce me to tears in this digital age but this is one of them. Until you've lost someone you love you can not know what he is talking about. Just the thought that you will never see them again is unbearable. They exist now only as a spirit.
I was too young to understand this song when it first came out. Now that I'm a grown up and have actually read a little about what actually happened down in Chile...God bless all the relatives of the missing.
This is probably one of the most controversial songs ever produced by Sting, however to this day no one denies is also one of his most beautiful artistic works ever. The lyrics, the musical arrangements, the message is simply a homage to a historic time now forgotten by new times. One day a reporter asked him about this song, and his answer was frankly quite unusual:" I will be very careful next time I get involved into this type of projects..." he said the reporter. Probably he later found out how heavely involved was the US goverment supporting Pinochet and how much of the people that supported this maniac are still in high chains of power. Also would not be surprissing that he learned being Chile historically tied with British intellingence, he was getting into a very fragile ground with his own goverment, since most likely the brits teamed up with the CIA to squash the socialist movement in Chile. That answer Sting gave still covers a lot of ground to this day.
Mi País Chile sigue sufriendo esto , que jamás será superado... Señor Sting mis respetos hacia Ud. Un músico y cantante increíble que llega a mi corazón. Gracias por su dedicación. Hoy el mundo está en un cambio profundo , gracias al estallido social"
I still weep when I listen to this song. Four decades ago my best friend a young and brilliant labor lawyer and poet disappeared. His body was never found. Three decades ago I was abducted by military intelligence agents and detained for three months. Unlike my best friend and thousands of other desaparecidos I was surfaced and released. Members of my family, friends and comrades danced for me and saved me. Now a new dictatorship/dictator is emerging. The good fight is not over. Let's keep dancing, dancing, dancing. Dance with your wives, with your daughters, with your mothers and sisters..
Violeta Filipina te admiro por tu valentía y por la pena y dolor que debes haber pasado, ya sea por tu propio dolor o el que sufriste al perder a seres queridos. Aquí tienes una admiradora.
Grande el Maestro Sting. Su musica es maravillosa, pero con esta canción se gano mi respeto y admiración, no solo como gran músico y compositor sino como humano.
A diferencia de muchos artistas nacionales como internacionales no se quedó indiferente a la tragedia que vivió Chile durante la dictadura militar! Gran artista y gran persona!
I visited Chile in 1990 whilst serving in the UK military, listened to this song throughout the trip (6 months) ............very profound and made me think every day I was there.
Such a terrific song, a song that ticks so many boxes: its melody, its lyrics and the emotional range that manages to take in grief, hope and protest. Can you imagine Elton John or David Bowie pulling off anything like this?
The most beautiful song ever about war and its tragedies, a protest song. I hope I'm correct in what I thought I read about it. The song is a metaphor referring to mourning Chilean women who dance the Cueca, the national dance of Chile, alone with photographs of their disappeared loved ones in their hands...."mesmerizing"
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No sé cuanta gente es capaz de apreciar que en un mismo tema se reúnan 3 monstuos del arte mundial para recordar el golpe militar chileno y sus horribles consecuencias. Sting, Rubén Blades y el gran Ezralow juntos en este temón universal, es un honor y un placer escucharlos y verlos en este video. MAGNÍFICOS
El maestro Ruben Blades es un grande de la musica pero… Ruben Blades, que esta en este video con Sting, escribio para alrededor de 1978 una de sus canciones mas conocidas "El Cantante". Me parece que esta cancion es una imitacion o "copia" de la cancion que escribio el cantante Billy Joel en 1974 titulada "The Entertainer". Coincidencia? Demasiada la coincidencia para que el maestro Blades no se haya inspirado en esa cancion. Claro esta, la cancion de Billy Joel es en ingles y el ritmo es en Rock y no salsa. Pero mucha la similitud en la letra para no ser la misma. Si este fuera el caso, me parece que el maestro se copio. Esta conexion entre las dos canciones me vino a la mente el otro dia "de casualidad" escuchando la cancion de Billy Joel "The Entertainer". Dije: "Wow, esta cancion, la letra, se parece mucho a la que Ruben escribio sobre el El Cantante. Sera la misma?" Entonces busque las fechas de las dos canciones. Yo encuentro que la letra de las dos canciones son demasiado similar para Ruben no haberse "inspirado/copiado" con la cancion de Billy Joel. Pero no me creas, investiga y llega a tus propias conclusiones. Para eso esta el internet. Esto mismo paso hace poco con la banda Led Zeppelin y econtraron que se habian "copiado" en su cancion mas conocida "Stairway To Heaven". No sabian que el internet los descubriria un dia. Ouch!
One Christmas many years ago, my mother gave me Nothing like the sun and said to me: "Davide, there is Your Mark playing along with my Sting in this song". Those were the years of the tragedy in South America and of the brave mothers. Only a mother can understand the pain of another mother who has lost her child. This song reminds me of the strength of mothers, the strength of my mother and how much a mother is within each child. And when the mother is gone, her love always remains in the heart. Here, Sting, with Mark and Eric's guitar, they still make my mother feel alive here with me
Todas las dictaduras son horribles amigo, unas más que otras pero todas son horribles. Ahora en Chile sucedió algo raro, por así decirlo, y no es por justificar nada, pero la dictadura de Pinochet buscó el bien del país y lo logró, Chile salió adelante con las políticas que se implementaron. Chile fue un modelo para varios países. Lamentablemente en el camino se cometieron abominaciones que se cometen en cualquier dictadura y eso sí no es para admirar
Lamentablemente hoy en Chile no hay dictadura, pero la indolencia de los presidentes frente al terrorismo en la Araucanía los iguala o empeora , son muchas las personas que han muerto, inocentes padres de familia y ahí ningún cantante o líder de opinión se pronuncia
I am here, weeping through election night at 9:30 pm on the East coast in the USA. Sacred Heart of Jesus, we adore you! ImmaculateHeart of Mary, pray for us! Enfold us in the Divine Mercy! God the Father, For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us! Holy Ghost descend upon us! Have Mercy upon us!
Still relevant after all these decades. How many (grand)mothers, aunties, cousins, sisters, wives, (grand)daughters & nieces dance with missing (grand)sons, nephews, cousins, brothers, husbands & uncles nowadays in the Gaza Strip & even victims of lynch mobs & police violence in the U.S.?
I do my bit for your Sting for years. A bit is I try to protect birds of the Amazon, but for over twenty years have tried to protect the Amazon forest. Thank you for the awareness, Sting.
🇩🇿 Dear Sting , Thank you for your deepest words to the deepest heart of the earth. Thank you for the beauty. Que la terre vous bénisse. From the Desert Rose, Algeria.
When I open TH-cam this song of Sting enters directly into my soul and after thousand times of listening my mind again want to-do listen this song! God bless Sting and his empathy for women and soldiers both of them are haunted by wars!
I so agree and thanks for your reply Richard.ife. Sting has been my. Mini hero. his words and voice speak for all of us. I am a mother and I have danced alone and with my daughter too. I My internet connection just skipped a heartbeat.. Not yet into a cardiac arrest🔮🔮
Canzone che emoziona profondamente. Grande guerriero della Luce! Caro Sting Non bisogna danzare da sole, ed io ho deciso da tempo di non farlo. Io ho danzato Co Signore per il Signore nelle mie notti insonni❤❤❤ Ho continuato ad amare la vita ad aiutare in silenzio. " Chi semina nel dolore raccoglie nella gioia❤" Sei un meraviglioso artista ed un uomo con un nobile cuore❤ Grazie per questo capolavoro❤❤❤
Seven minutes that simply flies by. Timeless has a dual meaning. Gentle, soothing, sad, and uplifting. Who played that beautiful solo at the end? That's perfection.
I have not heard this song in over 10 plus years. However, the song is just as relevant today as it was back then. I'm actually in tears hearing this. HAVE WE NOT LEARNED ANYTHING AS A PEOPLE?! WHERE IS THE HEART CONDITION?!
Why are these women here dancing on their own? Why is there this sadness in their eyes? Why are the soldiers here Their faces fixed like stone? I can't see what it is they despise They're dancing with the missing They're dancing with the dead They dance with the invisible ones Their anguish is unsaid They're dancing with their fathers They're dancing with their sons They're dancing with their husbands They dance alone They dance alone It's the only form of protest they're allowed I've seen their silent faces they scream so loud If they were to speak these words They'd go missing too Another woman on the torture table What else can they do They're dancing with the missing They're dancing with the dead They dance with the invisible ones Their anguish is unsaid They're dancing with their fathers They're dancing with their sons They're dancing with their husbands They dance alone They dance alone One day we'll dance on their graves One day we'll sing our freedom One day we'll laugh in our joy And we'll dance One day we'll dance on their graves One day we'll sing our freedom One day we'll laugh in our joy And we'll dance Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos Ellas danzan con los muertos Ellas danzan con amores invisibles Ellas danzan con silenciosa angistia Danzan con sus padres Danzan con sus hijos Danzan con sus esposos Ellas danzan solas Danzan solas Hey Mr. Pinochet You've sown a bitter crop It's foreign money that supports you One day the money's going to stop No wages for your torturers No budget for your guns Can you think of your own mother Dancin' with her invisible son They're dancing with the missing They're dancing with the dead They dance with the invisible ones Their anguish is unsaid They're dancing with their fathers They're dancing with their sons They're dancing with their husbands They dance alone They dance alone
Always tears in my eyes, hearing this song, very, great, outstanding, thank you Sting. Fan then and now (End of 2018) Democrats, your part now. Acting against Angela Merkel, Macron, Soros, Trump, Saudis, Erdogan, Putin, Xi Jinping, Mullahs of Iran and so on!!!! Amities du Allemagne, Francfort, Hessen, Rhein-Main!
I love this song. Thank you Sting. I'd never heard it before. "Hey Mr. Pinochet, you sowed a bitter crop". In deed. One day all men will be called to account for their deeds in this life. There men like these will finally be made to see. This song is beautiful and although it is sad it is also full of hope.
It's over 30 years ago that as newly qualified teacher, I played this song to my students after reading a book set during the Pinochet regime in Chile. It's as sad and relevant today as it was then. What a sorry state our world is in. Have we learned nothing?
Apparently not 😢. Seems like it's going to take a while longer before things will change for the better..! 😢😢😢...
ASTONISHINGLY ACCURATE, TODAY.
STAY SAFE PEEPS.
This is for my brother Roy ✝️💔,…He passed on in 1987,…He would have been 67yrs old but he died at the age of 31yrs old ,…My poor Mom ✝️ cried & cried
,…That’s why this song is special to me 🙁
The first time I heard this song play in 1987, I couldn't stop crying and here I am in 2021 and still can't make it through the video without crying. Thank you Sting for bring this to the world's stage and all that you continue to do for Amnesty International.
Same here.....same here
Ja też
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Thanks for your words!
I'm on the same page. Sometimes you just have to cry.
Joni wrote: "laughing and crying, it's the same release" .... The song is timeless ... Like his: "Fragile"... Wish it had Hornsby on the keys. What a combo THAT would be.
When I was a teenager our English teacher introduced us to "Englishman in New York", "Russians" and this beautiful song. Through Sting we improved our vocabulary but more important, started thinking about the world...one of the greatest musicians ever. Beautiful man with a beautiful soul. Now I make my kids listen to Sting so they get to know what great music is. Love you Sting.
Teach them. May they know what thought provoking music is
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May I propose Sting's Portuguese language haunting version of 'Fragile'?
The Spanish version is amazing
Fantastic comment completely agree 👏
You were on the right side of history many times. Bravo artist.
Las canciones de Sting me encantan! Y esta canción la escuchaba en mi país (Colombia) tengo la oportunidad de escucharla en Chile y se siente un fuerte escalofrío! Después de tantos años de desaparecidos en este país! Que algún día descansen en paz todos aquellos que desaparecieron y sus familias!
Does Sting get the recognition he deserves? His body of work is just outstanding. Classic pop of the 80"s with the Police, masterpiece songs like this one here, amazing Jazz collaborations with Branford Marsalis and Omar Hakim. A true genius.
he does pretty well, $500,000 a night, sings whatever he wants!
I don't know, he's pretty obscure.
This song will never get old. Its powerful message of peace will last forever as a testament of what should never happen again.
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Still relevant.
Yet it just keeps 🙄 repeating
Yep
Raz na jakiś czas rodzi się psychopata- zbrodniarz z manią władzy nad innymi krajami.I zaczyna napadać,mordować innych.I powołuje się na Boga..19.03.2023.
The decade of the 1980s, we saw Sting morph from the wildman who jumped around talking about De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da into this amazing transcendent poet and musical messenger. What an amazing talent this man is!
Thirty-four years later, and this remains a timeless masterpiece, with a poignant message, and with Branford's brilliantly (yet equally understated) sax solo, bringing the song home, at the end. Stellar!
TIMELESS!, ALL OF HIS WORK. PERFECTION!
I WAS BORN 2 DAYS AFTER HIM, AND BORN WITH A HUGE, LOVE OF MUSIC!!!
LIBRAN'S!. THE STORY BEHIND THIS SONG IS SO SAD.
Sting is the only dude who made music in the 70's and early 80's that still lives up just as well in 2022, over 40 years later.. the amount of respect i have for this guy is beyond anything.
Agreed100%
He's exceptional.. excellent. High Moral Values are of his Nature, too. The rockstar is still genuinely together with his longtime married Partner Trudy. Way to Be and Create Excellence, Mr.Sumner.
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So agree
I wouldn't say the Only dude but I get what you're trying to say. There aren't many great artists like Sting who created beautiful art that still resonates...today. But Sting is one of the very best of them all.
I watched a film of him doing this song in Chile I believe, there were armed guards standing around the auditorium. There were women that came up on stage with picture of their missing. It was heart wrenching and made me very thankful for where I was born. God Bless all the people that have to live in countries that go thru this, I hope I never have to.
That was the Amnesty International tour. Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones and Branford Marsalis were on the tour with him as well. I believe he did something similar in Argentina
Both our beautiful nations have suffered under the blind ambition of cruel men. It is up to us to make sure that the ghosts of Pinochet and Peron are forever exorcised. @@juanestadian8471
I’m a son of an ex MIR combatant and both parents were tortured my mum being pregnant at the time and under age. This song kept me going through many years. Sting and Blades acknowledgement of the Pinochet dictatorship. Thank you Sting.
My dad was at estadio Victor Jarra ,pissagua ,puchuncavi, where there is or was a German museum. I went to pissagua at ten. We drove the dessert of attacama to get there
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Damn
"Can you think of your own mother dancing with her invisible son?" This line always sends chills down my spine...
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Clayton Morris is mentioning this song in his eulogy of Kissinger (the TH-cam channel Redacted).
Danke ich war vielleicht schon lange in der Welt 🗺
Same, that whole verse is incredible. And Sting was totally right, a couple years later the foreign money stopped, and that was basically the end of Pinochet. A shame he didn't live long enough to be executed but at least he lived long enough to be disgraced.
Anguish. Yes, Women could refill Oceans with our tears.
Brave man sting. Has showed many times, that he has a social conscience Great human being. And the music Sublime
I know his gardeners, a bit weird I know but they are a lovely couple in their 80’s. Sting considers them as part of his family. A true gentleman in my book
@@GalaxyGamer_YT665, maybe like an English man in New York? Couldn't help to avoid this joke, hope you don't mind.
Thank You Sting for Your powerful songs...You have Big Heart .Much Love and Blessings😙💖
Joseph Kenny
Very true, when they dud the conspiracy of hope tour there was a risk to life in doing so for all those involved where the only thing that avoided an incident was probably the prospect of global hatred and revolution which would have followed
not only a musical genius but a huge heart and conscience, makes him even more of a giant.
"The song is a metaphor referring to mourning Chilean women (arpilleristas) who dance the Cueca, the national dance of Chile, alone with photographs of their disappeared loved ones in their hands."
Heartbreaking.
I just now tried dancing with my Grief and Anguish and I started in My weeping ilamentation to Begin moaning and bringing forth sounds from deep within me. A new way of coping skills and expression of the inevitable Journey that Lies in Wait for us ALL
Iain Little I remember in the 70s in Italy a family of political refugees from Chile stayed in my house for a few weeks. The ran away from the Pinochet fascist regime. They were killing all political rivals in football stadia.
He also dedicated this song to the mother of disappeared in Argentina.
He allowed the mothers of plaza de mayo walk into the stage during a concert while he was singing this song. 30,000 people disappeared in Argentina between the ages of 15 and 60+.
It is a buetifull song very sad
Buetifull so sad a hopeless feeling
Its been more than 30 years when Sting wrote this song.. Still sounds amazing.
It will be another 80 before it sounds less than amazing
Masterpiece never fades...
@@rhettpeter83 80? noooo I will be making sure all my bloodline listenes to him :D
Sting is to me, one of the best artistes of all time. A songwriting genius. Every song has a powerful message. Great guy. Would love to have lunch sometime so I can ask him his songwriting technique. Lol.
Yes, I can pretty well map out my entire life in the lyrics to Sting’s songs !!!
Indeed!!
Ηe is by far the best pop/rock songwriter of our time.The man has written just about anything. From Jazz to Pop to reggae to theatrical stuff...He's done it all with love and respect. A true master and a genuine lover of music with no boundaries and blinkers in regards of music whatsoever.
Вы-лошадь? , они ржут😮
It is impossible for me to listen to this song without weeping uncontrollably. Thank you, Sting, for eloquently and beautifully bringing this to the world. "One day we'll sing our freedom." Peace out.
I have not heard this song for years and when I first did, it made me feel extremely emotional and teary!
Hear the complexity and classical chord phrasing of his compositions. No other artist of the rock era had such musical references. Such depth of beauty ❤
Так может, наверное, только он.
I consider Sting to be a type of Bob Marley of the soft rock era.. many of his early albums contained songs of deep social commentary..one if my favorite artists of all time.. that Sax was a key signature of his musical style..
So true!!!!
Every time I hear this song it touches me deeply.
La cueca sola es quizá la única danza en el mundo cuya expresión trae pena, tristeza, desesperanza, etc, tanto en quien la baila como en quien le observa.
thank you Sting please keep praying on it, equality and life is not a result it is a right for every soul
I listen to this song after many years: it's still powerful and emotionating. Great Sting!
I've heard this song the first time in the evening before the day, when the album "Nothing Like The Sun" came out in Germany. They played this track in a radio broadcast, where new albums have been presented. I have been so seized by this song, that tears ran in to my eyes. The next day I immediately went to the record store and bought the album ...
Sting and I share the same Birthday. October 2nd...I can so relate to the vibe of his music..
ME, JUST 2 DAYS OFF!! I LLOKED AT BOTH BIRTH CHARTS!!, AMAZINGLY SIMILAR.
How graceful and powerful is that song. Masterpiece.
Sting has always been one of my favorite artists. His lyrics are literate and powerful, and he does indeed have a social conscience. I love his solo efforts as well as the work he did with The Police. This particular song never fails to make me weep.
This song touches the soul
We shall always be grateful to Sting for this homage in honour of the arrested, tortured, and disappeared ones during Pinochet's Dictatorship. 🇨🇱🤝🏼🇬🇧
Think he ended up on Pinochet’s ‘ hit list ‘ didn’t he ?
I heard this song for the first time when I was 14 years old.
I was deeply impressed by the shocking lyrics that I can not imagine from the music.
I respect STING which makes such a song.
I am also now listening to this song for the first time, I am 14, it's such an incredible song
Gracias STING por acordarte de Chile cuando más sufría.
Saludos Luis Alberto. No sabía sobre la historia de la canción. Si noté que en una parte canta en español. Casi al terminar la canción, hay un cambio de ritmo, en el cual se me eriza la piel (uno, por el arreglo musical; otro, quizás por la impresión del tema de "bailar con los muertos".
De verdad por eso se dió su dedicación como parte de su campaña en contra de la dictadura y la guerra en el mundo y por algo Sting es un artista que tiene siempre su preocupación por todo lo que pasa en el mundo y éso es realmente un gran apoyo
When you hear the lyrics, music, instruments, medley, rhythm, harmonizing, etc., it makes you crave more. Good God man, here we are in 2021, why can’t today’s musicians create audible beauty like this that stirs the soul?
Especially when you realize that Sting is growing old just like all of the other legends who have passed on, or on the verge of death.
Rich,it's a beautiful song 🎵
возможно для того, чтоб мы смогли оценить, что у нас было...что у нас есть
Absolutely! I love this 🎶.
@@skingerskanger And he wrote a bop about it, like the legend he is (50,000)
So relevant song for our country Ukraine by now. 😭 So many missing and dead sons and fathers and husbants already.
Maybe you should know that the socialist movement in Chile was squashed with the aid of the CIA and Mi6. The same dudes that are sponsoring your war in Ukraine. Do us a favor, dont compare. The LATAM socialist movement history is not a pretty tale to tell.
Como Chileno jamás podré agradecerle lo suficiente a Sting por exponer la violación de DDHH en Chile en el periodo de la dictadura militar (Pinochet). Las torturas y los desaparecidos. Mi amor y agradecimiento eterno para Ud. maestro!
Such a powerful song of terrible sadness, and yet great with hope seeking peace in coexistence. Sting Forever!
Nunca se olvidará, por siempre quedará en nuestras memorias
Ni perdon ni olvido
Nunca. Nunca olvidaremos a quién nos robaron. Nunca!
If you are still listening to this in 2023 for the words, the sadness and the humanity of it. Thank you. Sending ❤ to you.
Gracias a vos esto es humanidad!!! 💝
Still listening in 2024!
@@wantobeaprincess desde Argentina 💝
❤️
Listening on election night 2024 in USA. And weeping
Its been over more than 40 year since our cousin got tortured to death at Villa Grimaldi. After his death our family had to flee Chile. We are spread out in the whole world. Just a month ago my mother saw his cousin (brother of the murdered one) for the first time over 40 years.
His mother 'danced alone' for years after his death. Until she passed away in Australia 20 odd years ago.
Necyn 😭❤
I feel you. One of the closest and most important persons in my life (my mom) still struggles not only with the poverty inherited by the right-wing policies specially for people that (for many reasons) cannot adjust to the labor market, but also with the trauma of terror, persecution and loss, to the point of having delusions and paranoia associated with it. She has even been living on the streets for a year, out of poverty and madness and I still don't have enough money to help her. I've heard she's not the only one. I have had to become used to live with a broken heart, in the face of many chileans, even young ones, who are still saying that either everything was justified, or that we should forget it already. How could we forget, if the wound is still alive, if there's still no guarantee that this will not happen again? I send you a hug from the distance, from your family's land, and from someone who is still part of that now invisible community that made us the target of selfish and powerful people to persecute and terrorize.
@@togetheras0ne My love to you.
I am son of the Chilean dictatorship,
I was brought up as an obedient son,
Never get into trouble,
Let alone politics,
Never saw or heard anything,
Specially in the news,
I was told we were in war with Marxism
But also I was told that we were free,
Nothing could have been further from the truth
Thousand of my people dead, just because of their ideas, and also because of being poor,
As a country, we have no appreciation for human life in every single way,
But we are the “best economy in Latinoamérica”,
Uneducated, physically and mentally ill,
We are into a deep relationship with deception,
We don’t want to see nothing that shows out purulent past,
We are no longer citizens,
Actually, we never were,
Just consumers,
Christ our True King have mercy on all of us who endure in believing that Justice is both real and inevitable. peace from Iowa, Necyn.
this would have to be my personal favorite song by sting. as a kid growing up I always wondered why I was the first born Canadian out of a Spanish family. then I found out my father was a political prisoner and tortured by Pinochet. this song holds a very special place in my heart lets me know where I come from and what my family went through
💜💜💜💜
You just got me a bit closer...Thank you...
❤️
Amazing
Wow! I recently went to Vancouver. Many people forget the Indigenous people or immigrants like they do here in America. Your story is amazing. Thank you for sharing. I would like to see a book or movie covering this topic.❤️
STING is by far, the most AMAZING ARTIST ALIVE!!!! He has been my all time favorite since I was like 4 years old. He is beautiful and all of his songs are beautiful and they something to him. This brings back so many memories. He is all I listen to and will never stop. I would give anything to meet him. His concerts are the most incredible times I have ever had in my life. He is an ABSOLUTE Dimond in the rough.
❤ Yes
Thank you for this song, Sting. It still breaks my heart. ❤
I desperately hope that this song will be an inspiration to the Russian mothers and grandmothers who see their sons and grandsons sent to another country
A leader won’t listen to foreign voices
A leader won't listen to protesting students
Hopefully a leader will listen to the voices of mothers and grandmothers
I am deeply praying for this
❤️❤️
Mi associo alla preghiera
@@almagalliu491 thank You
Please, add your voice in reaching out to Sting and Bono for a joint concert on the new Mothers of the Disappeared in Russia and Ukraine (rescue crews unable to reach the living or the dead in Mariupol due to shelling, residents abducted into Russia) -- see th-cam.com/video/1tCLtHlzeeI/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/dqbqJYt0_X4/w-d-xo.html
DEEPLY TRUE
how to compose a beautiful hit song with style ,class, message and an awesome music structure...Sting is a Sir!
+superbatfirenze Indeed, he is a musical genius with a huge heart....
Definitely agreeded
One of my favourite songs from Sting. Like espacially the part at 05:30min. Good bless all "Desaparecidos" all around the world and from all totalitarian governments. Rest in Peace! Let us form a better world.
Amen my friend.
los chilenos sufrimos una dictadura demencial
+elizabet bello Mentira. Pinochet salvo al pais de caer en una dictadura comunista.
Aníbal Domínguez ESTE MUSICO A PESAR DE SER MI FAVORITO, NO SABE EL DAÑO QUE HACE EL COMUNISMO. POBRE IGNORANTE.
Aníbal Domínguez...Pinochet no salvo el pais.... mato personas... asi de sencillo
There are very few songs that reduce me to tears in this digital age but this is one of them.
Until you've lost someone you love you can not know what he is talking about.
Just the thought that you will never see them again is unbearable.
They exist now only as a spirit.
So true the part about until you loose someone you truly love is key to gettting this.
I was too young to understand this song when it first came out. Now that I'm a grown up and have actually read a little about what actually happened down in Chile...God bless all the relatives of the missing.
Song that teaches and explains ... A very masterpiece !
He made the invisible visible with a beautiful song...
couldn't have said it any better 😢❤
indeed he did
CERI MCCOY Verdad!!
Wow + huh = poetry
God bless you for this insightful comment.
This is probably one of the most controversial songs ever produced by Sting, however to this day no one denies is also one of his most beautiful artistic works ever. The lyrics, the musical arrangements, the message is simply a homage to a historic time now forgotten by new times. One day a reporter asked him about this song, and his answer was frankly quite unusual:" I will be very careful next time I get involved into this type of projects..." he said the reporter. Probably he later found out how heavely involved was the US goverment supporting Pinochet and how much of the people that supported this maniac are still in high chains of power. Also would not be surprissing that he learned being Chile historically tied with British intellingence, he was getting into a very fragile ground with his own goverment, since most likely the brits teamed up with the CIA to squash the socialist movement in Chile. That answer Sting gave still covers a lot of ground to this day.
Such a sad and beautiful song, with an ending that sings of hope. Sting is, as always, masterful.
Y'all are the damn best. I'm honored to have the kind of support that you show me, thank you. How are you doing it is nice meeting you here btw
Esta cancion acompanha mi busqueda desde 1987.Fuerza a todos los que perdieron a los suyos.Fuerza y resiliencia.
Mi País Chile sigue sufriendo esto , que jamás será superado...
Señor Sting mis respetos hacia Ud.
Un músico y cantante increíble que llega a mi corazón.
Gracias por su dedicación.
Hoy el mundo está en un cambio profundo , gracias al estallido social"
Lamentablemente las fake news y el miedo le ganaron a la esperanza :(
@@diegog4517 , hola Diego .
Nunca se olvidó!!
Saludos .
Si. Incredible
Musica por mundo
Si. Por seguro
I still weep when I listen to this song. Four decades ago my best friend a young and brilliant labor lawyer and poet disappeared. His body was never found. Three decades ago I was abducted by military intelligence agents and detained for three months. Unlike my best friend and thousands of other desaparecidos I was surfaced and released. Members of my family, friends and comrades danced for me and saved me. Now a new dictatorship/dictator is emerging. The good fight is not over. Let's keep dancing, dancing, dancing. Dance with your wives, with your daughters, with your mothers and sisters..
Violeta Filipina te admiro por tu valentía y por la pena y dolor que debes haber pasado, ya sea por tu propio dolor o el que sufriste al perder a seres queridos. Aquí tienes una admiradora.
Saludos de un hermano vecino brasileño debajo de un Gobierno tan horrible cuanto el de Pinochet: Bolsonaro.
Mi tio tambien deparecio por 3 meses. Pudemos traer lo ha Australia despues, pero nuca estuvo igual.
This is an INCREDIBLE story and YOU, my dear are INCREDIBLY! Stay strong! I am so blessed to hear your journey!❤️
I mean tot how you are an INCREDIBLE WOMAN!💟
Thank you, Gordon! It is such a sad and haunting song. And it is still happening all over the world. Never forget...!!
Grande el Maestro Sting. Su musica es maravillosa, pero con esta canción se gano mi respeto y admiración, no solo como gran músico y compositor sino como humano.
A diferencia de muchos artistas nacionales como internacionales no se quedó indiferente a la tragedia que vivió Chile durante la dictadura militar! Gran artista y gran persona!
What tragedy? The economy went up? Chile is the richest country in South America (in terms of gdp per capita)? What tragedy?
@@kongshvalmagyar4984 the Pinochet miltary régimen
@@matiasruiz5791 Look at chile now. Take the “evil regimen” but it makes you richer. Sissy
I visited Chile in 1990 whilst serving in the UK military, listened to this song throughout the trip (6 months) ............very profound and made me think every day I was there.
Such a terrific song, a song that ticks so many boxes: its melody, its lyrics and the emotional range that manages to take in grief, hope and protest. Can you imagine Elton John or David Bowie pulling off anything like this?
The most beautiful song ever about war and its tragedies, a protest song. I hope I'm correct in what I thought I read about it. The song is a metaphor referring to mourning Chilean women who dance the Cueca, the national dance of Chile, alone with photographs of their disappeared loved ones in their hands...."mesmerizing"
summersbr1 not about war at all, it's about the mass murder of many chileans commited by a dictatorship.
You are right about the dance, but it definitely wasn't a war, the military against its own, mostly unarmed people, is never a war
Yes it’s written in the albumn where you copied it from so why bullshit making out you dident read it there
I love Sting with his long hair. Thank you, master for writing a song dedicated to my dear country Chile
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I love this...it brings so much emotion. One of Sting's finest songs..
Y'all are the damn best. I'm honored to have the kind of support that you show me, thank you. How are you doing it is nice meeting you here btw
The most beautiful song, yes, still listening to it!! Love me some STING!!!!
The all-out best ever singer/composer/ of modern times for me. And bloody gorgeous, too!
Stunning in every way....Sting is a one of a kind musician..bravo
В 91 году до дыр кассету гоняла, слушая его альбом. Волшебная музыка, ностальгия.
Thank you Gordon, for giving music a higher purpose. Reaching hearts and minds through the arts.Peace.
One of my favorite videos and songs. Heartbreaking 💔 and moving how so many families are affected by tragedy of inhumane tyranny. Thx 🙏
🗣️🕊️💕NON AUX ARMES NON AUX GUERRES ♥️🌐🕊️ LE GRAND BLEU MERCI 🕊️
No sé cuanta gente es capaz de apreciar que en un mismo tema se reúnan 3 monstuos del arte mundial para recordar el golpe militar chileno y sus horribles consecuencias. Sting, Rubén Blades y el gran Ezralow juntos en este temón universal, es un honor y un placer escucharlos y verlos en este video. MAGNÍFICOS
El maestro Ruben Blades es un grande de la musica pero… Ruben Blades, que esta en este video con Sting, escribio para alrededor de 1978 una de sus canciones mas conocidas "El Cantante". Me parece que esta cancion es una imitacion o "copia" de la cancion que escribio el cantante Billy Joel en 1974 titulada "The Entertainer". Coincidencia?
Demasiada la coincidencia para que el maestro Blades no se haya inspirado en esa cancion. Claro esta, la cancion de Billy Joel es en ingles y el ritmo es en Rock y no salsa. Pero mucha la similitud en la letra para no ser la misma. Si este fuera el caso, me parece que el maestro se copio.
Esta conexion entre las dos canciones me vino a la mente el otro dia "de casualidad" escuchando la cancion de Billy Joel "The Entertainer". Dije: "Wow, esta cancion, la letra, se parece mucho a la que Ruben escribio sobre el El Cantante. Sera la misma?" Entonces busque las fechas de las dos canciones.
Yo encuentro que la letra de las dos canciones son demasiado similar para Ruben no haberse "inspirado/copiado" con la cancion de Billy Joel.
Pero no me creas, investiga y llega a tus propias conclusiones. Para eso esta el internet. Esto mismo paso hace poco con la banda Led Zeppelin y econtraron que se habian "copiado" en su cancion mas conocida "Stairway To Heaven". No sabian que el internet los descubriria un dia. Ouch!
Saludos de un hermano vecino brasileño debajo de un Gobierno tan horrible cuanto el de Pinochet: Bolsonaro.
siempre que se hace una limpieza de comunistas ,la queja es la misma ...mejor no hacer experimentos marxistas ..no es verdad
creo que acabas de ningunear con violencia a peter gabriel
Por lo que se, Mark Knopfler y Eric Clapton trabajaron en este tema con Sting.
One Christmas many years ago, my mother gave me Nothing like the sun and said to me: "Davide, there is Your Mark playing along with my Sting in this song". Those were the years of the tragedy in South America and of the brave mothers. Only a mother can understand the pain of another mother who has lost her child. This song reminds me of the strength of mothers, the strength of my mother and how much a mother is within each child. And when the mother is gone, her love always remains in the heart. Here, Sting, with Mark and Eric's guitar, they still make my mother feel alive here with me
Hermoso y muy emotivo video...PARA QUE NUNCA MÁS EN CHILE SUCEDA ALGO IGUAL A LOS HORRORES DE LA DICTADURA. Gracias Stin
Todas las dictaduras son horribles amigo, unas más que otras pero todas son horribles. Ahora en Chile sucedió algo raro, por así decirlo, y no es por justificar nada, pero la dictadura de Pinochet buscó el bien del país y lo logró, Chile salió adelante con las políticas que se implementaron. Chile fue un modelo para varios países. Lamentablemente en el camino se cometieron abominaciones que se cometen en cualquier dictadura y eso sí no es para admirar
@@novshuju Eso no justifica que los militares y la CNI hayan torturado, abusado y asesinado.
Lamentablemente hoy en Chile no hay dictadura, pero la indolencia de los presidentes frente al terrorismo en la Araucanía los iguala o empeora , son muchas las personas que han muerto, inocentes padres de familia y ahí ningún cantante o líder de opinión se pronuncia
Magic!!! Marwellous musicians. I never stop loving this song.
I am here, weeping through election night at 9:30 pm on the East coast in the USA. Sacred Heart of Jesus, we adore you! ImmaculateHeart of Mary, pray for us! Enfold us in the Divine Mercy! God the Father, For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us! Holy Ghost descend upon us! Have Mercy upon us!
Still relevant after all these decades.
How many (grand)mothers, aunties, cousins, sisters, wives, (grand)daughters & nieces dance with missing (grand)sons, nephews, cousins, brothers, husbands & uncles nowadays in the Gaza Strip & even victims of lynch mobs & police violence in the U.S.?
Such a powerful song ..it breaks me down everytime I listen to it 😢 😭 😢 😭
Hauntingly beautiful
I do my bit for your Sting for years. A bit is I try to protect birds of the Amazon, but for over twenty years have tried to protect the Amazon forest. Thank you for the awareness, Sting.
🇩🇿 Dear Sting ,
Thank you for your deepest words to the deepest heart of the earth. Thank you for the beauty.
Que la terre vous bénisse.
From the Desert Rose, Algeria.
When I open TH-cam this song of Sting enters directly into my soul and after thousand times of listening my mind again want to-do listen this song! God bless Sting and his empathy for women and soldiers both of them are haunted by wars!
Sting and Branford Marseilles...the winning combination
So beautiful tune, definitely a tribute to all those women... so moving. Thank you Sting!
A master piece, thank you Sting
I so agree and thanks for your reply Richard.ife. Sting has been my. Mini hero. his words and voice speak for all of us. I am a mother and I have danced alone and with my daughter too.
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My internet connection just skipped a heartbeat.. Not yet into a cardiac arrest🔮🔮
Hey if Amber placed a turd into Johnny's bed. I would say she is in deep shi:. Maybe I am wrong about this but I do not think so.
Cogito, ergo sum.
Canzone che emoziona profondamente. Grande guerriero della Luce! Caro Sting
Non bisogna danzare da sole, ed io ho deciso da tempo di non farlo.
Io ho danzato Co Signore per il Signore nelle mie notti insonni❤❤❤
Ho continuato ad amare la vita ad aiutare in silenzio.
" Chi semina nel dolore raccoglie nella gioia❤"
Sei un meraviglioso artista ed un uomo con un nobile cuore❤
Grazie per questo capolavoro❤❤❤
What a beautiful elegy. Only Sting could do it as perfectly as this.
Прекрасный вокал, браво👏👏👏
This entire album reduces me to a puddle of tears every time, goddammit
It’s a big club, my friend. Peace.
My all time favorite artist! I love Sting!!!! ♥️
Seven minutes that simply flies by. Timeless has a dual meaning. Gentle, soothing, sad, and uplifting. Who played that beautiful solo at the end? That's perfection.
I have not heard this song in over 10 plus years. However, the song is just as relevant today as it was back then. I'm actually in tears hearing this. HAVE WE NOT LEARNED ANYTHING AS A PEOPLE?! WHERE IS THE HEART CONDITION?!
This song easily can take an award as the most melancholic song of all times!
Why are these women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed like stone?
I can't see what it is they despise
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone
They dance alone
It's the only form of protest they're allowed
I've seen their silent faces they scream so loud
If they were to speak these words
They'd go missing too
Another woman on the torture table
What else can they do
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone
They dance alone
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
Ellas danzan con silenciosa angistia
Danzan con sus padres
Danzan con sus hijos
Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas
Hey Mr. Pinochet
You've sown a bitter crop
It's foreign money that supports you
One day the money's going to stop
No wages for your torturers
No budget for your guns
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin' with her invisible son
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone
They dance alone
San Miquel Thank you.
Thank you
Always tears in my eyes, hearing this song, very, great, outstanding, thank you Sting. Fan then and now (End of 2018) Democrats, your part now. Acting against Angela Merkel, Macron, Soros, Trump, Saudis, Erdogan, Putin, Xi Jinping, Mullahs of Iran and so on!!!! Amities du Allemagne, Francfort, Hessen, Rhein-Main!
What a beautiful letter, thanks for uploading!
Reminds me of Jackson Browne Lives in the Balance. Powerful song👍👍👍
Un duo... Pour ne plus jamais "danser" seul... Écoute cet air mon amour...
Très jolie danse et chanson que je découvre grâce à toi ma belle SUZON...merçi mille fois...💃🕺👩❤️👨👫💞💋
Спасибо ! Стинг не только прекрасный музыкант, но и великий Человек !
This still makes me so sad, it's hard to stop the tears. There are still so many like Pinochet in this world. Still too many dancing alone.
KKumokun yes. And you will get a helicopter ride soon.
Oh dont pretend that you are crying! You are fishing for a response really!
How right you are !
Best wishes to you.
Got to be one of the greatest songs ever, missed by many.
I love this song. Thank you Sting. I'd never heard it before. "Hey Mr. Pinochet, you sowed a bitter crop". In deed. One day all men will be called to account for their deeds in this life. There men like these will finally be made to see. This song is beautiful and although it is sad it is also full of hope.
Somethings are timeless, the beautiful and the ugly....thankyou for this song.....bless you for this song
Gracias sting por éste bello homenaje ❤