Synchronicity II

Synchronicity II tells of a man whose home, job and surroundings wear him down while something monstrous rises from a dark Scottish loch, a reference to the Loch Ness monster. Sting told Time that Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, and that the song is about two parallel events that are not connected logically or causally but symbolically.

Summers recorded the feedback with a Stratocaster and two Marshall amplifiers turned up full, and described six minutes of screeching with his life passing before him. The band had a section they called The Loch, built on a detuned guitar synthesizer, which was meant to close Synchronicity I and lead into this song, but they could not get it to work. It appears on the 2024 box set as Loch. Summers wrote in his memoir that the band recorded his roadie Tam Fairgrieve snoring and used the sound for the monster.

It was the third single from the album and reached number 17 in the UK and number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1983. The video by Godley and Creme was filmed on a sound stage on the outskirts of London, with the band on scaffolding towers among piles of junk.