Sting - the book of my life

노래는 인생의 책을 통해 과거의 경험과 기억을 회상하는 내용이다
그 책에는 약속, 슬픔, 사랑, 상실 등의 복잡한 감정이 담겨 있으며, 진실을 마주하기 두려운 주인공의 마음이 드러난다
결국 인생의 끝에 대한 해답은 알 수 없는 미스터리로 남아 있다는 점을 강조하고 있다

Let me watch by the fire and remember my days
And it may be a trick of the firelight
But the flickering pages that trouble my sight
Is a book I'm afraid to write
It's the book of my days, it's the book of my life
And it's cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife
And it's all there to see as the section reveals
There's some sorrow in every life
If it reads like a puzzle, a wandering maze
Then I won't understand 'til the end of my days
I'm still forced to remember
Remember the words of my life
There are promises broken and promises kept
Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept
There's a chapter of secrets, and words to confess
If I lose everything that I possess
There's a chapter on loss and a ghost who won't die
There's a chapter on love where the ink's never dry
There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life