Sting, "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free"
"If you love somebody,
set them free
You can't control
an independent heart
Can't tear the one you love apart
Forever conditioned
to believe that we can't live
We can't live here
and be happy with less
So many riches, so many souls
Everything we see
we want to possess [...]"
If You Love Somebody Set Them Free is the first single released from Sting's solo debut album "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" (1985). He said that he wrote the song as an "antidote" to the Police's 1983 song "Every Breath You Take.
Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 2 October 1951). He is a musician, a singer-songwriter but also an activist and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the lead singer and bassist of the rock band The Police.
Use "If you love somebody, set them free" to declare your love to someone who really loves his freedom...