Is It A Crime?
by Sade

Album: Promise (1985)
Charted: 49
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Andrew Hale, Helen Adu, Stuart Matthewman
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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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