It really doesn't mean anything, we just thought it was a catchy domain name that would be easy to remember and spell. (we never considered the people who might try to spell it Invisible Son for whatever reason, we were thinking about "sun" at the time... D'oh!) It was taken from the title of a song on the album "Ghost In the Machine" released in 1981. Possibly the best of the original Police albums, it is still a favorite of mine. The songs lyrics are dark, but the song is essentially one of hope.

This was a song about the Troubles in Ireland. Long before the Police took off, I knew a girl from Andersontown in Belfast. I used to go and see her there. I had very short hair at the time, and I wasn't allowed to talk in Andersontown because people would think I was a squaddy. I wrote the song at the time of the hunger strikes. I wanted to write a hopeful song, - that's the image of the invisible sun that is shining any way, no matter how dark it seems. If you didn't know it was about the Troubles, there are very few specific clues: the mention of the Armalite is the actual reference.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Looking at the barrel of an Armalite
I don't want to spend the rest of my days
Keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say

I don't want to spend my time in hell
Looking at the walls of a prison cell
I don't ever want to play the part
Of a statistic on a government chart

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

It's dark all day and it glows all night
Factory smoke and acetylene light
I face the day with me head caved in
Looking like something that the cat brought in

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

And they're only going to change this place
By killing everybody in the human race
They would kill me for a cigarette
But I don't even wanna die just yet

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done