Is It A Crime?
by Sade

Album: Promise (1985)
Charted: 49
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  • This may come, this may come as some surprise
    but I miss you
    I could see through, all of your lies
    But I stll miss you
    He takes her love, but it doesn't feel like mine
    He tastes her kiss, her kisses are not wine, they're not mine
    He takes, but surely she can't give what I'm feeling now
    She takes, but surely she doesn't know how

    Is it a crime?
    Is it a crime
    That I still want you
    And I want you to want me too ?

    My love is wider, wider than Victoria Lake
    My love is taller, taller than the Empire State

    It dives and it jumps and it ripples like the deepest ocean
    I can't give you more than that, surely you want me back

    Is it a crime?
    Is it a crime
    That I still want you
    And I want you to want me too ?

    My love is wider than Victoria Lake
    Taller than the Empire State
    It dives and it jumps
    I can't give you more than that, surely you want me back

    Is it a crime?
    Is it a crime
    That I still want you
    And I want you to want me too ?

    It dives and it jumps
    And it ripples like the deepest Ocean
    I can't give you more than that
    Surely you want me back

    Tell me
    Is it a crime?
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Comments: 1

  • Mr Franx from AustraliaHello,
    What isn’t mentioned here is that “Is it a crime?” is the follow up song to “The sweetest taboo” song.
    If you watch both video clips this will make sense.
    In “The sweetest taboo”, Sade’s love interest with Temor is set in an exotic location and she is singing about him afterwards in the New York rehearsal space.
    In “Is it a crime” Sade is singing about the same guy in the same rehearsal space as Temor rides around New York in a cab looking for Sade after their breakup because of his rough treatment to her.
    He eventually gets to the bands space to find it empty. He does find his name that Sade wrote on the window, at the end of “The sweetest taboo” video.
    He wipes it away in frustration.
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