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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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