Sting - Englishman In New York
Time: 1:57
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night, a candle's brighter than the sun

seriousness; the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol
Heard in 60 songs (442M+ combined views) — most famously in "Englishman In New York" by Sting.
Updated August 13, 2026
Time: 1:57
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night, a candle's brighter than the sun

Time: 2:57
But I traded that for cocaine and a whore
With my new found sobriety
I've got the time to sit and think

Time: 2:35
Man, I gotta be doin' (what?) somethin' right
I got 11 years of sobriety (yeah)
So, the only bottom I'ma be hittin' is if it's sodomy

Time: 0:53
Sleeping with giants, I'm tiptoeing quietly
Feeling it all, it's sobriety
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

Time: 0:49
But these days I'm livin' on the side of alive
Just 'cause I smile through my sobriety
Don't mean it ain't chillin' in the back of my mind

Time: 1:25
Somebody tell me now what done happen to society
My happiness is gone and it took with it my sobriety
They say that money cannot make you happy

Time: 0:10
Ayy
Run, run, here come the menaces to sobriety, like what? (What?)
Super thuggers thumpin' on the cut

Time: 2:55
Meet a young Dennis, the menace to society
Check my sobriety, fuck hoes in varieties
Shame that these things is the reasons you admire me

Time: 1:37
Appease the beast on spattered sheets
Dyed unearthly red as sobriety weeps
Nocternity

Time: 0:52
To my troubled mind
Why, oh why, my God, have you abandoned me in my sobriety?
Behind the old facade, I'm your bewildered child

Time: 1:45
In a gin and tonic trance
We know sobriety won't teach the kids to dance
She's my cyanide

Time: 0:20
Maybe it's just my anxiety
Or my lack of overall sobriety
But why don't you come over and get high with me? Oh-oh

Time: 1:44
I scare the bros that ain't got no Black friends (facts)
They say sobriety gives you a lens, but all I see is niggas playing pretend
You niggas bitches and need an assist

Time: 3:58
♪
Sobriety suits you so well

Time: 0:39
(Cut up to pieces)
And I've woken up to sobriety
Just another day you're not with me

Time: 0:17
This social situation gives you anxiety
Poppin' pills to inoculate your sobriety
♪

Time: 3:01
Believe me baby, ow
Drunken on sobriety
I said, well, heal me

Time: 0:50
(Chorus)
Dear Sobriety
Please come back to me

Time: 2:41
Without breaking down in the moment
When I gave up sobriety after you passed
'Cause it was harder on my own, hope you not mad at me for it?

Time: 1:32
Causin' verbal lobotomy, it's in my geneology
Six months of sobriety, movin' very methodically
Like a unicorn, more ways than oceanography

Time: 3:36
So there I was
Within the sobriety of the immortals
A semblance of supernatural winds passing through

Time: 1:36
That I have not been in
Obviously opting not to sing songs in sobriety
Subsiding the poison imploding our society

Time: 4:44
Him taunting his mortality
He's unnerved by sobriety

Time: 0:49
We're always fixin' something that was never broken
We're on and off again like sobriety
Get back together every time you're done throwin' a fit

Time: 2:19
My inner peace ain't in who follows me, nah
That clout is just a cloud of dust, I need sobriety now
Truth

Time: 1:02
Pariah from society
Addicted to sobriety
A product of a virgin birth, another God on Earth

Time: 1:15
I met a DJ who lived in seclusion
Reality and sobriety were her only delusions
And those lucky bastards, they didn't have to work

Time: 1:20
I'm just an oxymoron in a song when I'm straight bent
Intoxicated on sobriety, irony makes sense
I'm tryin' to make a livin', you diein' to pay the rent

Time: 1:35
Reality ain't good enough for me
And all that I can feel is nothing but sobriety
I'm living in a world of fantasy

Time: 1:31
In my hands you know you'll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
(Twist)

Time: 0:44
Motherfucking mess, I don't fit in society
Demons inside of me, fuck my sobriety
I got anxiеty, no, I won't piss in no cup

Time: 0:12
Okay, I been dealin' with anxiety, yeah
I been practicin' sobriety, yeah
I've been chillin' in the higher me

Time: 1:19
And they're pounding on the shore
(sobriety)...(lets get faded)
They're pounding on that shore

Time: 0:24
Take me back home, when I was a kid
Sobriety is a hell of a drug
They say you only fight with the people you love

Time: 3:28
lemmings
Some don't like sobriety's dirty lenses
Some do let sleeping dogs lie still

Time: 1:29
♪
I quit sobriety
I join up with insanity

Time: 0:57
It's a new you every day
And you struggle with sobriety, dreams of notoriety
Listening to Kill 'Em All

Time: 2:00
So much anxiety, I try to suffer quietly
Got pills that quiet me but fuck up my sobriety
Laugh at the irony, try to see the show, but ain't hire me

Time: 0:49
Please pass some sanity, saints of mediocrity
And keep me out of my sobriety
14 And 23, bridge and tunnel authority

Time: 1:23
An outcast of modern society
Suffering from a case of sobriety
Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick

Time: 0:11
We're victims of a society
That f**ks with me about sobriety
They say don't drink this and don't drink that

Time: 0:18
I wish had qualities like sympathy
Fidelity, sobriety, sincerity, humility
Instead, I got lunacy

Time: 0:48
The po po's they tripping mane
They sobriety checking
Alcoholism

Time: 1:09
From my hands you know you'll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
More than twist in my sobriety

Time: 0:47
And just let go
Our sobriety will diminish
Discriminate we fade slow, fade slow

Time: 0:51
Even Jesus Christ turned the water into wine
Don't confuse sobriety with morality
There's a lot of sober murderers

Time: 1:06
And now today, well, I still got anxiety (Gangsta Grizillz)
It's fucking with my sobriety and the outlook that I have on society
It could be cripplin', even if your bank account steady triplin'

Time: 1:22
Nothing hits so definite (repeat)
The mask of sobriety for afternoons he'd save
I'm just checkin'

Time: 2:41
Water's turnin' to wine, like Jesus did in the book
And the thought of the Bible teachin' sobriety got me shook
Because maybe it was a metaphor that I misunderstood

Time: 1:33
Too gone, ain't no sign of me
Got me wanting to end my sobriety
I ain't gon' end my sobriety

Time: 1:17
My stizzy sets a wiz - eye in me, pissy in a rizzy
Indian wife, I flip 'em behind reachin' for sobriety
Blew north, never find me, reside in this state of mind

Time: 0:41
Tell me, tell me how long
Will this sobriety last?
Who's understanding?

Time: 3:06
When everybody is doin' drugs it makes the world a better place to be
So quit na, and screw aa, and fuck sobriety
When everybody is doin' drugs it makes the world a better place to be

Time: 0:04
They been denying me baby
Trying my sobriety lately
My sober unchauffeur she driving me crazy
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Time: 1:15
♪
I don't expect sobriety
I don't expect stealth

Time: 0:43
I wait in the middle and I press the green to go
Passion and sobriety are yelling in my head
Can't sleep over money, I got cobras in my bed

Time: 1:41
Forget about your fears and all of your anxiety
The thrill I get from you make me forget sobriety (slow your brakes)
Hmm (don't stop dancing, oh!)

Time: 3:13
Now you're walking off to jeers, the lonely sound of jingling spurs, the "toodle-oos" and "Oh, my dears" down at "The Argyle"
Vile vaudevillians applaud sobriety
There's no place for a half-cut cowboy in polite society

Time: 0:58
Da-da-da-da-da-da, da-da
My 17th year of sobriety
And my 16th year on the set

Time: 1:04
You'd be lucky now
An appointment at an embassy, a promise of sobriety
A single night when you didn't go to sleep
