"[6] The song, which refers to Carl Jung's theory of synchronicity, nominally tells the story of a man whose home, work life, and environment are dispiriting and depressing.

The man is routinely denigrated by his boss ("and every single meeting with his so-called superior / Is a humiliating kick in the crotch") and ignored when he crosses a picket line; all the while "he knows that something somewhere has to break".

[8][9] Writing in Entertainment Weekly about a 1996 Sting tour, Chris Willman said: "The late-inning number that really gets [the crowd] galvanized is the edgy old Police staple that has the most old-fashioned unresolved rock tension in it, 'Synchronicity II'—which, after all, is a song about a domestic crisis so anxiety-producing that it wakes up the Loch Ness Monster.

"[10]Sting explained the theme of the song to Time magazine: "Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos.

[12] The theme of "The Second Coming" is similar to that of "Synchronicity II"—a civilisation beginning to collapse, and the rise of something new, something perhaps savage, to take its place.

In "Synchronicity II" guitarist Andy Summers "forgoes the pretty clean sounds for post-apocalyptic squeals and crashing power chords", writes Matt Blackett in Guitar Player magazine.

[17] The music video for "Synchronicity II" was directed by Godley & Creme, filmed at a sound stage on the outskirts of London.

In it the band are seen performing on top of giant piles of guitars, drums, junk, car parts, wires, with debris and papers flying about, punctuated by footage of Loch Ness for the first and third choruses.