Sting - Tea In The Sahara Lyrics

Yes is a comfort. Absolutely is not.

I'll never forget the summer this album came out.

After all this time, still so Epic...

This is probably one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs I have ever heard...and it is almost forgotten in time.

A strangely amazing song with remarkable sounds.

2019 ؟ from moroccan Sahara

αυτο ειναι ο Αγγλος Ασθενης...

Iv had tea in the sierras it was fantastic

Capolavoro assoluto syncronizaty un album del 1983 dalle sonorità ancora avanti del 2019 da incorniciare e farci lezioni di musica alle nuove generazioni grandi Police 🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍

Bellissima.

šik mistik

The Little Prince

I've always like this song. Still do!

Check this out. I based it on a song by The Police that I've always found strange and especially cruel. Long before I began writing these stories I always suspected the young man in the song was a time traveler for who else could do such a terrible thing? Are you sitting comfortably?


The Sisters
👭
A young time traveler, as of yet unused to and therefore unable to fully comprehend the complexity of unrestrained movement in the fourth dimension, once visited a planet.
It is a strange and isolating thing to exist outside of time and can lead to a certain hubris that far exceeds normal human capacity.
The planet had kind, gorgeous skies in shades of green and sparkling desert dunes of diamonds dust. Upon it, he met two sisters.
Similar in age and lonely and bored he was novel, new, exciting and fun. He would occasionally appear at times in their life when they needed him most or when it was nice.


He made some of their birthdays and when one of them had kids but he never looked older he just knew more clever tricks.
On one of his visits he appeared in a machine the likes of which the sisters never had seen.
It could fly in the air and this delighted them so, they developed a desire, knowing he'd say yes, came to him with their bizarre request.
What they wanted to do was go out to the dunes and have a picnic of sorts on the shining diamond sands by the light of their world's two moons.


So one night they flew out together in his plane and picnicked and danced, had tea and played games.
Since his travels began he never had so much fun so he made a promise to them when their party was done that he would return once every year and they go back to the dunes to celebrate.
So on the first anniversary of their night on the sand they went out to await his approach over the land with such anticipation and anxious glee they felt as young as they were when they had first been seen by their, wonderous, unusual friend.
After some time when he had not yet arrived they went further out to find him at the place they had dined that singular, amazing night.


They waited until the sun became high in the beautiful green of their world's friendly sky. But as it grew dark and he had not yet appeared the sisters grew worried and began to fear. Where was the man and why hadn't he come? He had promised he would but he'd never return and that was not good.
The traveler's mind was not yet adept at keeping track of all the people he'd met. Traveling through time was like reading many books at once.
Returning to chapters and picking up where one left off was all well and good for the reader but for the others involved time still goes on and this is where the young time traveler had gone horribly wrong.
For he never again picked up this particular book and on the dunes of their world left the sisters to die. Crying, wondering and asking him why...

Brian Sands very nice

Excelência Top dás Galáxias

This beat just makes me move. And I have 4 sisters.

NO! IT IS the one of the best music heard since Mozart!

Every now and again I hear the lyrics, "Tea in the Sahara with you" don't ask me why I just do. From when I was a little boy growing up I remember this lyrics by my fav band at the time, and tonight I am here once again to hear.............Tea in the Sahara with you............

gotta watch that one best picture and all, narcoleptic pilot?

Puro bajo..impresionante banda

The English Patient

miami vice s1e17 someone ?

The last track on the original "
Synchronicity" album and so in some way the last Police track at all - a worthy one!

Murder by Numbers came after this on some.

Great song and major classic movie.Great video,thxs for posting,they really Go together WeLL.

Miami Vice song!!!

my favourite police song. so gorgeous. perfectly complements the english patient montages.

What movie is this? She is gorgeous! ;)

The English Patient https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116209/

Kristin Scott Thomas.

One of the best arrangements ever! Hands down!

My Arabic roots throught my father

Andy is brilliant your right

going through images with the help of STING is like a dream OR A MOVIE. A Movie it is. ONLY those could say how it was. WHICH is NO one.

Sting IS going to die: life result. he knows that I know. SO: let's play... - music!

Brilliant !

MY daUGHTER is beyond this (l'est say) seriously,

VERY WELL DONE!!!!!

深夜にしつもーん。　私の生活面の足元を見て・・・この不思議な力を無謀にも自分たちの利益に繋げようとした（←ここ、過去形ね！！☆要注目）のであれば・・・あなた方の人権は誰のものだったのでしょうか？　今は、僕は安全です。　だって、守られてるもーん。　場所が問題じゃない。　心の場所の問題だ。　Like tea in the Sahara.

Beautiful people with immense artistic talent are rather rare. But some have indeed been doubly blessed: Sting, Cat Stevens, Dolly Parton, Burt Bacharach, just to name a few. All of these people are stunning (or certainly were in there youth), and all of them are prodigious creators of exceptional music. I'm a 'seven' on a good day and the same number might apply to my musical talent. The best song I ever wrote, I finished today. It was written for a friend who has known misfortune in love. I'll be posting it tomorrow. I hope he likes it. It was two months in the making. Why do mediocre artists strive as much as the gifted to create? It's because we all get the same buzz when we bring something new into the world. I think that's it.

One of the most frustrating parts of being an artist is understanding that timing is everything. No matter how much talent, ambition, charisma, good looks, or whatever other ingredient you may think is important, timing is the one thing that trumps everything else. Market niche or the need for what an artist is making will dictate how much attention people give to the music being made.

I love this video. Thank you for putting this together! Your video captures the book and movie.

I love this song but it has to be LOUD....

My favorite police track.God Bless them.The imagery is excellente.

nice song until the movie sound cut in, wtf

Never read the book.  But saw the movie one time: The Sheltering Sky

If there were an ultimate alchemist on dune in Africa and Middle East, he/she would transform sand into water. Then people there shall enjoy no war time. Oh, the natural possibly renders facet to human being. Well, peace for the world.

tje movie was done AFTER the words

the movie as done AFTER the sing.

VICA & PACO

Totally awesome. You capture the mood of the song. Thank you!

My sisters and I
Have this wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession

We want our tea in the Sahara with you
We want our tea in the Sahara with you

The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
They would wait for him here
The same place every year
Beneath the sheltering sky
Across the desert he would fly

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

The sky turned to black
Would he ever come back?
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups full of sand

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

there are some mistakes

guys always wait till it's too late to show how they truly feel. this must change if you are to hold on to a woman!

Lech Janerka - Ta zabawa nie jest dla dziewczynek

amazing, one of my favorite songs ever!

Those dunes remind me of naked curvy women.

Grandes. .

Well done, and song very suits.....thank you!

one of the most overrated movies synched with one of the most underrated Police tunes...and it works!

Mesmerizing, just like having Saharan tea while watching dunes

...colonna sonora del mio matrimonio 💖adoro Sting

along with the bed's too big without you

one of my favorite neglected works of the police

Stunning noise and production!

Un te en el Sahara contigo...como me ecantaria....

Watching The Sheltering Sky, which this song is based on.

Such a great arrangement!!

incredible..

...cudo utwór, wywołujący takie ciarrrrry, gęsia skórę...niesamowity
jak modlitwa ....tylko z Tabą....herbata na Saharze.....

Ok Jarek I hav a Love . yes it very kompliziert. My heart it not free . it a another Man . Her it marriage .... Her love me and i him but it very sad for my Situation for him and me . you anderstand me ?! You my Friend hav my bic Friendship 😌 Lisa  a bic hugs and kiss

@Marlisa Ka. Hej Lisa, You surprised and shy me...These you write...
...sorry... Your friend, ...squeeze You...:-))
Jarek

"Tea in the Sahara" to dla mnie lista M. Niedźwiedzkiego :) Film klimatyczny

2 months ago, I had tea in the Sahara... but damned..! no Kristen Thomas Scott! ;-(

brilhante!!!

Thankz! 

Andy Summers on this track is just brilliant 

he basically makes the song with those dreamy chords in the chorus

absolutely!

he's always brilliant

I was on an inner-tube on a lake in Texas at age 15 I think... It was the first time I had ever been allowed to go on a trip with other kids alone.  We were all messing around on an inner-tube raft together.  Somebody had a radio.  That's when I heard that the "POLICE" had broken up.  Man that ruined my weekend...

around the 84/85 period, those were rumors that the press kept circulating around. no one really knew what had happened to them. it wasnt until 1986/7 after the tried to reconvene to make a greatest hits album that we really knew what had happened to them

The Sheltering Sky, The Police and The English Patient all together. Be still my heart.

@Adrianne Montgomery No doubt.

A little tea for,
for you and me.

Superb.

My first police album. As a wee young lad of 9. This was my favorite song on the synchronicity album.

Exquisite

great ......

this beautiful music end  beautiful movie..... sting forever.

The movie is actually '' The sheltering sky'' however this video goes just as well 

@lake fire
 The movie is THE ENGLISH PATIENT

@klyana130 and +lake fire: You´re both right :-)! The movie in this Youtube-Clip is from the eglish patient. But Sting said about his song: About 'Tea In The Sahara':
"Paul Bowles has written very many books but he wrote a book called 'The Sheltering Sky' which became a film by Bertolucci, a few years ago. I read it long before it was a film. It's one of tho most beautiful, sustained, poetic novels I've ever read. It's about Americans that regard themselves as travellers and not tourists, and I class myself in that category. I'm a hopeless tourist, but I'm constantly on the move. There was a story within that story - that was a sort of Arab legend that was told in the story of three sister who invite a prince to a tea party out in the desert to have tea, tea in the Sahara. They have tea, and it's wonderful, and he promises to come back and he never does. They just wait and wait and wait until it's too late. I just loved this story and wrote a song called 'Tea In The Sahara'. I don't know whether Paul Bowles ever heard it, probably not, but it's still one of my favourite songs." (http://sting.com/discography/index/album/albumId/164/tagName/studio_albums)

The Great "English Patient". Fantastic song done to a great movie...

is beautiful music.... she wonderful girl....

Le Patient anglais

Gorgeous. Thats's all , really.

Right? you'd think they would use the right movie, but then again, maybe they didn't see it, nor read the book.

Should be "The Sheltering Sky"...

Such a calming song. I can't help but think of the time spent together.

This guy is TOO fascinating. :|

I was a teenager on my first 'trip' with my friends to go have some fun (cars FTW) without my parents. We went to a lake and decided to do a float. We all got inner-tubes and lashed them together and carried our coolers and a big radio with us. During the afternoon, the radio station announced that "The Police" had disbanded/broken up...man......what a damper on an otherwise GREAT day. :/

Summer of 83..PnT Katherine O. Thumbs up.

I guess the video-maker just borrowed some scenes of the magnificent "The English Patient" to produce video-clip for the song... Fair enough.

omg , so perfect...I kept thinking of this music whilst watching the movie!!

Excellent

@jedi26 Thanks you for your rapid response. By the way you have a outstanding collection of videos. Keep up the great work.

@mobzapper "The English Patient"

What movie is this from?

Wrong movie