Into Temptation

Album: Temple of Low Men (1988)
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  • You opened up your door
    I couldn't believe my luck
    You in your new blue dress
    Taking away my breath
    The cradle is soft and warm
    Couldn't do me no harm
    You're showing me how to give
    Into temptation
    Knowing full well the earth will rebel
    Into temptation

    A muddle of nervous words
    Could never amount to betrayal
    The sentence is all my own
    The price is to watch it fail
    As I turn to go
    You looked at me for half a second
    With an open invitation for me to go

    Into temptation
    Knowing full well the earth will rebel
    Into temptation
    Safe in the wide open arms of hell

    We can go sailing in
    Climb down, lose yourself when you linger long
    Into temptation
    Right where you belong

    The guilty get no sleep
    In the last slow hours of morning
    Experience is cheap
    I should've listened to the warning
    But the cradle is soft and warm

    Into temptation
    Knowing full well the earth will rebel
    Into your wide open arms
    No way to break the spell
    Don't tell Writer/s: NEIL MULLANE FINN
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • The Singing Sydney Bus Driver from SydneyOne of my all time favourite songs, and my favourite Crowded House song. I was fearful in a way of liking this song because the lyrics may be interpreted as a desire to have you-know-what with an under-age girl: "the cradle was soft and warm, it couldn't do me no harm" line made me feel quite uneasy. But now that I have learnt about the origins of these lyrics, I don't feel so bad. I love Paul Hester's drum-brush technique and the string section accompaniment. It makes the song's character come alive and emotive.
  • Martha from Knoxville, TnI was always sure it was about an affair. I was going through a similar experience before I was married.
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