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Sting

How Insensitive

Release date: 15th October 1996

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About This Track

'How Insensitive' by Sting is a track from the album 'Red Hot + Rio', released in 1996. The lyrics frame a bruised, self-critical moment after a confession of love, with the speaker admitting to seeming “unnerved and cold” and left unable to respond except with stare and silence. The song’s viewpoint is introspective and regretful, circling the awkwardness of what to say when an affair is over, and the emptiness that follows.

"How Insensitive" is a track by Sting, from the album Red Hot + Rio, released 15th October 1996. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Sting.

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Lyrics

How Insensitive

How insensitive

I must have seemed

When she told me that she loved me

How unnerved and cold

I must have seemed

When she told me so sincerely

Why she must have asked

Did I just turn and stare in icy silence

What was I to say?

What can you say

When a love affair is over?

Why she must have asked

Did I just turn and stare in icy silence

What was I to say?

What can you say

When a love affair is over?

So now she's gone away

And I'm alone

With a memory of her last look

Vague and drawn and sad

I see it still

All the heartbreak in her last look

How she must have asked

Could I just turn and stare in icy silence

What was I to do?

What can one do

When a love affair is over?

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1996
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    Writer
    Antônio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinícius de Moraes
    Producer
    Daniel Jobim, Paulo Jobim
    Engineer
    Chris Tergesen, Edu Oliveira, Luiz Guilherme D’Orey
    Bass
    Ron Carter
    Drums
    Paulinho Braga
    Vocals
    Antônio Carlos Jobim, Sting
    Acoustic Guitar
    Paulo Jobim
    Background Vocals
    Ana Jobim, Elizabeth Jobim, Maúcha Adnet, Paula Morelenbaum, Simone Caymmi
    Cello
    Jaques Morelenbaum
    Flute
    Danilo Caymmi
    Mastering Engineer
    Tom Coyne
    Mixing Engineer
    Daniel Jobim, Luiz Guilherme D’Orey, Paulo Jobim
    Piano
    Antônio Carlos Jobim
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