Thieves In The Temple

Album: Graffiti Bridge (1990)
Charted: 7 6
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  • Love come quick
    Love come in a hurry
    There are thieves in the temple tonight

    They don't care where they kick
    Just as long as they hurt you
    There are thieves in the temple tonight

    Love if you're there come save me
    From all this cold despair
    I can hang when you're around
    But I'll surely die
    If you're not there

    Love come quick
    Love come in a hurry
    There are thieves in the temple tonight

    I feel like I'm looking for my soul (soul)
    Like a poor man looking for gold (gold)
    There are thieves in the temple tonight

    Voices from the sky say rely on your best friend to pull you through
    But even if I wanted to I couldn't really truly 'cause my only friend is you

    Come on

    There are thieves in the temple tonight

    Kicking me in my heart, tearing me all apart
    (Tearing me, tearing me, tearing me all apart)
    'Cause me and you could have been a work of art
    Thieves in the temple

    Baby, don't you know I'm holding on
    The best that I can
    Love please help me be
    The better man

    Better than the thieves in the temple
    In the temple tonight

    Oh, thieves in the temple (tonight) tonight
    Help me

    Love come quick
    Love come in a hurry
    There are thieves in the temple tonight

    Thieves in the temple

    You said you loved me! (Thieves in the temple)
    You said I was your friend! (Thieves in the temple)
    You were supposed to take care of me! (Love come quick, thieves in the temple)
    You a lie! Love come in a hurry (lie, lie!)

    Thieves in the temple tonight (ah!) Writer/s: Prince Rogers Nelson
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Mykl from Baltimore, MdThe maxi-CD of this song contains an "Extended Version," a "House" dance version and a "Dub" instrumental version. The "House" version thumps loud!
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