Released: July 17, 1990
Songwriter: Prince
Producer: Prince
[Chorus]
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight
[Verse 2]
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 because my only friend is you
Come on
[Chorus]
There are thieves in the temple tonight
[Verse 3]
Kicking me in my heart, tearing me all apart
(Tearing me, tearing me, tearing me all apart)
Because 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
Hurt me
[Chorus]
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight
Thieves in the temple
[Outro]
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 lie! Love come (Lie!) in a hurry (Lie!)
Thieves in the temple
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight
[Verse 2]
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 because my only friend is you
Come on
[Chorus]
There are thieves in the temple tonight
[Verse 3]
Kicking me in my heart, tearing me all apart
(Tearing me, tearing me, tearing me all apart)
Because 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
Hurt me
[Chorus]
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight
Thieves in the temple
[Outro]
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 lie! Love come (Lie!) in a hurry (Lie!)
Thieves in the temple
The Hits/The B-Sides
- 1999 (7" Stereo Edit)
- Feel U Up
- Pope
- 200 Balloons
- I Love U In Me
- Irresistible Bitch
- Girl
- God
- 17 Days
- Gotta Stop (Messin’ About)
- La, La, La, He, He, Hee
- Scarlet Pussy
- Peach
- Hello
- Power Fantastic
- I Would Die 4 U (7" Single Version)
- When Doves Cry (7" Single Edit)
- I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man (Fade 7” Edit)
- If I Was Your Girlfriend (7" Single Edit)
- Sign O’ the Times (7" Single Edit)
- 4 The Tears In Your Eyes [Live]
- Nothing Compares 2 U
- Escape
- Horny Toad
- Shockadelica
- Pink Cashmere
- Another Lonely Christmas
- How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
- She’s Always in My Hair
- Diamonds and Pearls
- U Got the Look
- Controversy
- When You Were Mine
- Head
- Let’s Go Crazy
- I Wanna Be Your Lover
- 7
- Purple Rain
- Kiss
- Little Red Corvette
- Erotic City
- Sexy M.F.
- Soft and Wet
- Gett Off
- Cream
- Thieves In The Temple
- I Feel for You
- Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
- Alphabet St.
- Delirious
- Pop Life
- Uptown
- Dirty Mind
- Do Me, Baby
- Raspberry Beret
- Graffiti Bridge (1990)
- 87-91 (1991)
- The Hits/The B-Sides (1993)
- The Very Best of Prince (2001)
- Prince 4Ever (2016)
- 1999
- Little Red Corvette
- Adore
- Sign O’ the Times
- If I Was Your Girlfriend
- P. Control
- I Wanna Be Your Lover
- Nothing Compares 2 U
- The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
- Head
- Controversy
- When You Were Mine
- Do Me, Baby
- Sister
- Starfish and Coffee
- Soft and Wet
- 1000 X’s & O’S
- The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
- U Got the Look
- Call My Name
- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
- How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
- Dirty Mind
- Gold