Words of warning took me by surprise   From a voice I hardly recognized   Well, my heart was beating faster   And my blood ran hot and cold   I was heading for disaster   When suddenly I realized that I had lost control   Lost control      Loaded questions played upon my mind   Allegations I could not deny   Well, my mind was in confusion   Had my back against the wall   I'd been led into collusion   Before I realized I was a victim of it all   Of it all      Here's to my crime of passion   I can't forget the look upon your face   And to your tender mercies   Goodbye to all the innocence we never can replace   Can replace      All of Sunday sittin' by the telephone   Not a whisper, well, I should have known   But it seems that I'd insisted   'Cause in spite of all you said   I believe my words were twisted   As line by line the promises were spinning round my head   Around my head      Here's to my crime of passion   I can't forget the look upon your face   And to your tender mercies   Goodbye to all the innocence we never can replace   Can replace      Waves of anger slowly do recede   To faded memories that I'll never need   But my mind keeps on returning to the way it used to be   There's a flame forever burning   There's nothing I can say to you will ever make you see   Make you see      Here's to my crime of passion   I just can't seem to shake it off my mind   As for your tender mercy   I'll never stop regretting that I left it all behind   All behind      Oh, all behind   For a crime of passion   For a crime of passion