Wrapped Around Your Finger

 

The way this song is commonly understood – to be based on romance – seems to be a misinterpretation. What is apparent is that there is a power struggle involved, as the “spiteful” singer (Sting) finds himself at the mercy of the person whose “finger” he is “wrapped around”, only later to prevail over this individual. And as the reader is probably already aware, being ‘wrapped around somebody’s finger’ is another way of saying that said person has control over you.

The singer is not overly fond of this person who exerts this control over him. This becomes evident when he more or less refers to this individual as Mephistopheles (the devil) in the second verse. And the track concludes with the singer rather gaining control over this individual and thus bragging that he now has this person wrapped around his finger.

All things considered, it is not likely that Sting is singing to a love interest. Rather it seems this song may be more literal than symbolic. The singer gave himself over to someone as a “young apprentice” in search of arcane knowledge. This person proved to be someone he could not look up to and indeed displayed a devilish nature. But ultimately the singer prevailed as in becoming dominant over this individual using what he learned from him.

Sting penned “Wrapped Around Your Finger” all by himself. He revealed that this song was written based on incidents or happenings in his life. The literalness of the lyrics become evident in light of Sting’s own words about the song’s real meaning. According to him, the track is based upon a “friend” of his who is also “a professional psychic and (his) tutor in tarot”. So this track reads like a tale literally derived from a chapter in the life of Sting.

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For out of the darkness comes the white light. The secret journey within is to activate your third eye to see God face-to-face. It is only outside religion that the truth of God rests, waiting for us to return home, where the Kundalini rises to the pineal gland. This song is about religion only being able to take us so far in pursuit of spiritual answers before we must go within to come face-to-face with God to know the rest. Sting's song sounds and feels like the Kundalini rising within.