The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
If I tell you
If I tell you now
Will you keep on
Will you keep on loving me?
If I tell you
If I tell you how I feel
Will you keep bringing out the best in me?
You give me, you give me the sweetest taboo
You give me, you're giving me the sweetest taboo
Too good for me
There's a quiet storm
And it never felt like this before
There's a quiet storm
That is you
There's a quiet storm
And it never felt this hot before
Giving me something that's taboo
(Sometimes I think you're just too good for me)
You give me the sweetest taboo
That's why I'm in love with you (with you)
You give me the sweetest taboo
Too good for me
(Sometimes I think you're just too good for me)
I'd do anything for you, I'd stand out in the rain
Anything you want me to do, don't let it slip away
There's a quiet storm
And it never felt like this before
There's a quiet storm
I think it's you (ha, ha)
There's a quiet storm
And I never felt this hot before
Giving me something that's taboo
You (you give me) give me the
(You give me the) sweetest taboo
That's why I'm in love with you (with you)
You give me, keep giving me the sweetest taboo
Too good for me
You've got the biggest heart
Sometimes I think you're just too good for me
Every day is Christmas and every night is New Year's Eve
Will you keep on loving me? (Ha, ha)
Will you keep on, will you keep on?
Bringing out the best in me
If I tell you now
Will you keep on
Will you keep on loving me?
If I tell you
If I tell you how I feel
Will you keep bringing out the best in me?
You give me, you give me the sweetest taboo
You give me, you're giving me the sweetest taboo
Too good for me
There's a quiet storm
And it never felt like this before
There's a quiet storm
That is you
There's a quiet storm
And it never felt this hot before
Giving me something that's taboo
(Sometimes I think you're just too good for me)
You give me the sweetest taboo
That's why I'm in love with you (with you)
You give me the sweetest taboo
Too good for me
(Sometimes I think you're just too good for me)
I'd do anything for you, I'd stand out in the rain
Anything you want me to do, don't let it slip away
There's a quiet storm
And it never felt like this before
There's a quiet storm
I think it's you (ha, ha)
There's a quiet storm
And I never felt this hot before
Giving me something that's taboo
You (you give me) give me the
(You give me the) sweetest taboo
That's why I'm in love with you (with you)
You give me, keep giving me the sweetest taboo
Too good for me
You've got the biggest heart
Sometimes I think you're just too good for me
Every day is Christmas and every night is New Year's Eve
Will you keep on loving me? (Ha, ha)
Will you keep on, will you keep on?
Bringing out the best in me
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Well, this song is talking about being in the epitome of intimacy, 'a quiet storm'. What away to describe it.
O, Sade is not only a group, they're an institution!!
Sade IS a group. Its so funny you calling that person a dork (dork?? what are you like 5 or something) when you don't even know what you talking about. Kinda ironic huh....
Search "helen folasade adu" when you're not playing with your toy cars.
i do not want to start an argument, but please look at their greatest hits album. the booklet says:
"sade are sade adu: vocals andrew hale: keyboards stuart matthewman: guitars and sax paul s denman: bass"
i will leave it at that....
this song makes me feel like im on an island . im in forida , thats close enough .
Miss Adu has said in a rare interview with TMU that the song, and much of her album Promise, is about heroin - the way it makes you feel, and the things you do for it when you're addicted. Apparently, she once let a dealer "do things" for a ten pound boot and wrote this song afterwards in an emotional trough. She talked about the bitter-sweet feelings smack gave her - the drive to do the dirty things she'd always fantasised about in one way or another, and yet after she'd done them, how she didn't feel good enough for the drug because of the way she'd lowered herself while under it's divine spell. She referred to it as basking in the Good Lord's perfect light, and then realising He (God/Heroin) could see all her blemishes so clearly when she was illuminated. Essentially here, she was scared of not being able to get high any more, either through tolerance or just being unable to source her skag. She said the thought terrified her, but none-the-less she couldn't stop riding the horse until she was heavily pregnant with her daughter.
oh i didnt know sade did drugs lol... this record is about passion, about obsession.. its sadistic like marquis de sade stuff... its also about low self esteem..
"If I tell you If I tell you now Will you keep on Will you keep on loving me If I tell you If I tell you how I feel Will you keep bringing out the best in me"
Can someone explain to me how not to resist to show someone special your feelings, for example, in the beginning of your relationship, to pretend and be cold, if you want to that relationship last longer??? In my recent relationship (well, all of them...), just after I show my feelings to a girl, she know that she got me, and she turn herself off. As long as I stay cold, she keeps bringing me a hard work to attract me... Can someone give me an a opinion?!
It makes me wanna go to sleep. It's just enchants my soul into a sleep trance if you ask me, lol.
Well, I did as you said to markus and quit playing with my cars for a second, and read about Sade on her official website. Her birth name is what you say, but she goes by Sade Adu, which is obvious if you actually read more than 2 sentences of her biography. She works with other people, but duh, Sade isn't the name of any group, its all over the website. Its so funny you trying to correct me when you don't even know what your talking about., kind of ironic huh? Dork.
Sade isn't a group dork, its just one woman.