SADE: It’s a crime 7″ UK 1985 Classic. Check video

Description

She is undeniably one of the best singers to grace this planet. Timeless and classic.

Sade – Is It A Crime?
Label: Epic
Catalog#: A 6742
Format: Vinyl, 7″
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Soul-Jazz

Tracklist
A Is It A Crime?
B Punch Drunk  [This is one of the few jazzy greats that you will hear the tenor sax and the acoustic piano flirt with one another as their behavior is mitigated by the percussion. Sexy!]

Photography – Helmut Newton
Producer – Robin Millar

“Is It a Crime?” is a song by English band Sade from their second studio album, Promise (1985). It was released in 1986 as the album’s second single. The song was written by Sade Adu, Stuart Matthewman and Andrew Hale.
Reception:
Tanya Rena Jefferson of AXS stated, “‘Is It a Crime’ is a smooth jazz filled song that fills up your brain with soulful joy. Sade sings in confidence on how she is in love, and she is so in love that she wonders if it is a crime that she loves her lover so. The romantic mellow song has a great tempo that fills your ears with sudden relaxation and ease.” Sophie Heawood of The Guardian commented that “Sade’s penchant for the epic was fully indulged on this six-and-a-half-minute 1986 single, from its length to its metaphors: her love here is ‘wider than Victoria Lake … taller than the Empire State’ – and, unsaid, clearly able to traverse half the globe as well.” Frank Guan of Vulture commented, “The alternation between low/slow verse and high/loud chorus is so effective here you wonder if the Pixies hadn’t learned a thing or two from this track. There’s a kind of subtle but forceful politics in her assertion of the scale of her love: it exceeds all imperial figures.

“Is It A Crime”:
It may come, it may come as some surprise
but I miss you
I could see through, all of your lies
But I still 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