What is the Police song Synchronicity II about?

Question

I get the stressed-out Everyman bits but not the dark Scottish loch bits.

Answer 1

The song, which refers to Carl Jung's theory of Synchronicity, nominally tells the story of an emasculated husband and harried father whose home, work life, and environment are terrible and depressing. In an early stretch of lyrics we find "Grandmother screaming at the wall" (family trouble/mental illness), as well as "mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration, but we know all her suicides are fake" (nagging, unhappy spouse). Later, we hear about the man humiliated by his boss, all the while he "knows that something somewhere has to break". Meanwhile something monstrous is emerging from a "dark Scottish lake/loch"— perhaps a parallel to the industrial and suburban angst, or to the father's own inner anguish.

Answer 2

I'd like to say that the entity emerging from the loch represents the man's suppressed rage and frustration, but why doesn't it make a beeline for his house instead of heading for "a cottage on the shore" that's "many miles away"?

Answer 3

The lurking unknown that lives in every person's "loch"

It is certainly more evocative than saying "closet"