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They Dance Alone

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Sting wrote this protest composition, which first appeared on his 1987 album ...Nothing Like the Sun. The track served as the fifth and final single released from that album.

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The song uses metaphorical language to address Chilean women mourners who perform the national dance of Chile while holding photographs of people who have disappeared, as a form of grief expression.