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Every Breath You Take
The Police

"Every Breath You Take" isn't a love song - and Sting has been saying so for 40 years.
He wrote it while his first marriage was falling apart, alone at night in Ian Fleming's old Jamaica house. What came out was a song about jealousy and surveillance, not devotion - yet it's been the go-to first-dance pick at weddings for four decades.
Have you ever actually listened to the lyrics at a wedding?
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