Where Did Our Love Go? - "The Bed's Too Big Without You"
@teamfreak16 (45341)
Denver, Colorado
August 8, 2026 12:40am CST
Where Did Our Love Go? The title alone should give this series away - breakup songs, so to speak, but not the sappy stuff you hear on your local iHeart Radio abomination. And this one is definitely not sappy: “The Bed’s Too Big Without You” by The Police.
Obviously, after a breakup, one tries to cope as best they can. And sleeping alone again can be a big adjustment. Sting is not adjusting well. He’s lonely, he can’t stand sleeping by himself, he’s wondering where it went wrong (“All I made was one mistake.”) He made love to his pillow (seriously, that’s a lyric!)
The Police, early on, were known as a new wave band that added ska and reggae elements to their sound. “The Bed’s Too Big Without You,” a single from their 1979 album (single released in 1980,) Regatta de Blanc, is straight-up reggae. Heck, even though Sting obviously sounds like Sting, I think I can detect a small hint of a rastafarian accent at times. I’m often too busy listening to the music, so I might be wrong on that one.
Final verdict - Sting needed to get a smaller bed. Maybe a twin.
Link is to the studio album version:
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@AliCanary (4820)
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8 Aug
Despite his earlier missteps (also thinking of "Every Breath You Take"), Sting and Trudie Styler seem to have made a lifelong match. I am quite a huge Police fan, have all their albums and the CD boxed set. Even dated a dude who looked like Stewart Copeland, lol.
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@AliCanary (4820)
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8 Aug
@teamfreak16 I love his solo work, too! My sister and I took a six-hour road trip and all we listened to the entire trip was a cassette of The Soul Cages that we just let endlessly loop while we drove and talked.
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@teamfreak16 (45341)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Aug
That's true, he and Trudie have been together a long, long time. He did write some pretty dark tunes when he was with the band. I don't think a lot of radio listeners got that part.
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@teamfreak16 (45341)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Aug
@AliCanary - Sounds like a good time!
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@teamfreak16 (45341)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Aug
It was released as a single, but I don't remember ever hearing it on the radio, at least not where I was living at the time. I've just usually always had a physical copy of the album in some format or other. That's why I know it.
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@AliCanary (4820)
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8 Aug
@teamfreak16 This is a great album. Since you know the deep cuts, I also really like "J'aurais Toujours Faim de Toi" from this one.
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@teamfreak16 (45341)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Aug
@AliCanary - I'd say it's my favorite album by them. Although yesterday I did listen to my copy of Zenyatta Mondatta.
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@FourWalls (88336)
• United States
18h
Or stop stalking his exes (“Every Breath You Take”). 
Great song. Lots of good breakup songs from them. I always loved that line in “Can’t Stand Losing You”: “I’m too full to swallow my pride.”1 person likes this
@FourWalls (88336)
• United States
9h
@teamfreak16 — like Buford T. Justice said, that is nothing but pure old-fashioned communism!
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@teamfreak16 (45341)
• Denver, Colorado
12h
She scratched up his records. What's he supposed to do?
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@teamfreak16 (45341)
• Denver, Colorado
9 Aug
It often takes me quite a while before I get around to really listening to the lyrics. I also listen more to the music.
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@Deepizzaguy (124079)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
8 Aug
Very good song sung by The Police.
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@teamfreak16 (45341)
• Denver, Colorado
9 Aug
It's one of my favorite songs by them.
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@teamfreak16 (45341)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Aug
This one has such a reggae groove that it almost seems darker than sad.
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