Chris Isaak - Wicked Game Lyrics

Chris Isaak Lyrics

"Wicked Game"

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

No, I don't wanna fall in love
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't wanna fall in love
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you, with you (With you)
(This world is only gonna break your heart)

What a wicked game we play, to make me feel this way
What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you
What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way
What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you

And I don't wanna fall in love
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't wanna fall in love
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

No, I don't wanna fall in love
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't wanna fall in love
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you (With you)
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you (With you)
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I... (This world is only gonna break your heart)
(This world is only gonna break your heart)

Nobody loves no one

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Writer(s): Chris Isaak

Although this song was released as a single in 1989, it became a hit later, after David Lynch used it in the film "Wild at Heart" (1990). One of the Atlanta radio music directors, Lee Chesnut, loved Lynch films and started to play this song which brought it to the top-ten early in 1991.

"Wicked Game" reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the first hit for Chris Isaak.

One of the music videos for this song was filmed in Hawaii and it features model Helena Christensen. The clip won the MTV Video Music Awards for "Best Male Video", "Best Cinematography" and "Best Video from a Film". The second video was directed by David Lynch for the "Wild at Heart" VHS release and it features the film's main characters played by Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern.

The band HIM recorded the cover versions of this song several times. Frontmen Ville Valo told its story, "I went to Pasila's library and borrowed the soundtrack-vinyl of 'Wild At Heart' and recorded it on tape. So with Linde we tried to 'learn' the song from the tape. It was kind of funny, that we learnt the song a bit wrong. We did not hear the guitar parts well enough from that 'bad quality' tape. We also heard the lyrics wrong, and when the song was later recorded to our first EP, there were a few funny mistakes in the lyrics."

album: "Heart Shaped World" (1989)

Heart Shaped World

I'm Not Waiting

Don't Make Me Dream About You

In The Heat Of The Jungle

Diddley Daddy

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"Wicked Game" lyrics

Chris Isaak Lyrics