Nope, it's creepy. See Sting's explanation:
From an interview with Radio 3MMM Melbourne, October 23, 1996:
RICHARD: I want to know what is your reason for writing Every Breath You Take? What was the background for that?
STING: Oh, I don't know. Do I have to have a reason for that? Well I suppose it's a pretty dark song. It was written in a pretty dark period in my life: my life seemed to be crumbling. The band I was in was breaking up, my first marriage was breaking up, I was breaking up, things were very bleak and I wrote this very obsessive, paranoid song called Every Breath You Take, which has a sort of seductive charm to it
as well and I suppose umm thats why its been a successful song. I think because it's so ambiguous; it's both dark and light.
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