User talk:82.31.176.160

Meaning of user name
"Invisible Sun" is a song from The Police album "Ghost in the Machine." The chorus of the song is:

There has to be an invisible sun It gives its heat to everyone There has to be an invisible sun That gives us hope when the whole day's done. 

I took the phrase to mean something like what the Quakers call the "inner light," but rather more bleak: a need for illumination even when little is to be found. I understood that the lyrics also had political overtones, as did the dark and grainy video for the song; I didn't know at the time, however, what they referred to. It turns out that the politics had a specific context, as described in Wikipedia's article for Ghost in the Machine:

"'Invisible Sun,' released as a single before the album, was a large success in the U.K., making it to #2 even though the video was banned by the BBC for including footage referring to the conflict in Northern Ireland." 

I would suppose, then, that "Invisible Sun" was also meant by Sting to be a plea for transcendence in politics.

Is your own user name a reference to Norwich (and its Browne connection)? - Best wishes, InvisibleSun 18:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC)