Sting wrote this when he became interested in songs with nonsense lyrics,  He claimed it was his son who came up with the title. He says that people who dismiss this song have not bothered to listen to the lyrics. 'De Do Do Do', for example, was grossly misunderstood: the lyrics are about banality, about the abuse of words. Almost everyone who reviewed it said, Oh, this is baby talk. They were just listening to the chorus alone, obviously.

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