"Next to You" is a song written by Sting and recorded by The Police as the opening track on their debut album Outlandos d'Amour in 1978.
It was the song performed for the second encore during The Police's 2007 Reunion tour.
When Sting originally presented the song to his bandmates, they felt it was neither aggressive nor political enough for the band's early punk sensibility.
The song also includes a slide guitar solo which Copeland dismissed as "old wave," yet Summers said in 2000 that he was still getting letters "about that brilliant slide guitar solo".
[4] The American punk band the Offspring recorded a cover version of this song as one of the two singles for their Greatest Hits album along with "Can't Repeat".