As mentioned, The Bridge turned out to be period ballads. -Except this one, which makes it worth a mention. I had hoped this would be more broadly contextualized, as the last time Sting did this there were four tracks, not one, on Sacred Love (iBook p. 1850). This makes attending to the song a bit of a leap and rather preposterous, so I intend to tread lightly, as in arch-types. But the fact that this is a reprise of a concept he delved into only once before (2003) is significant.
How many times have I had this dream
That wakes me from my slumber?
How will I ever get to sleep again
Counting sheep in a Book of Numbers?
How many times have I had this dream
With you walking towards me from the river?
when will I ever get to rest
Wondering if I can deliver?
This is the sound of rushing water
Flooding through my brain
This is the sound of God's own daughter
Calling out your name
This is the sound of atmospheres
Three metric tonnes of pressure
This is the sum of all my fears
Something I just can't measure
I remеmber the story of Jonah
He was trappеd in the belly of a whale
How many times must he succeed?
How many times must he fail?
This is the sound of rushing water
Flooding through my brain
This is the sound of God's own daughter
Calling out your name
I'll see my shrink on an analyst's couch
Hit me with a hammer and I'll say, "Ouch"
What we have here is so easy to solve
Just takes a firm purpose and some resolve
This is the sound of rushing water
Flooding through my brain
This is the sound of God's own daughter
Calling out your name
This is the sound of rushing water
Flooding through my brain
This is the sound of God's own daughter
Calling out your name
Your name, your name
Your name, your name
Your name, your name, your name, your
Ease into the water
Flooding through your brain
Ease into the water
Calling out your name
Ease into the water
Flooding through your brain
Ease into the water
The video concept ends alluding to baptism, going into the water. God is framed in terms of the Old Testament by mention of the book of Numbers. The song begins with having been in a dream that launches the songwriter from sleep. Again, this query of it being an awakening (that awakes the songwriter to elucidate the following elements in turn) has happened twice now post proposal, -once by the person who stealth bomb named me by my real name, and that this waking dream has happened in the past (both infer it happening again), is accounted by both songwriters ("how many times" and climbing out of the wreckage of a burned out star, meaning the ride crashed before). Awakening is followed in the same verse (or equated) with the appearance of someone from the water, who given the substance of the song, is dubbed "God's own daughter". But Sting is not singing of this arising for the sake of himself. He is signifying it due to the pressure he feels that it must be declared ("three metric tonnes"), and further signifying this in the resurrective context of Jonah arriving from the belly of the whale (to save Nineveh by testifying for God to the people).
Of course the water in this allusion is mental, not physical, it's flooding the mind/brain. In other words it fits my interpretation of the water actually being representative of the inspirational ether, the universal unconscious sea. The song closes with the admonition to embrace the water by easing into it. That's it. That's the arch type.