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Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

Wicked Game is a 1989 song by Chris Isaak from his third studio album Heart Shaped World.

Despite being released as a single in 1989, it did not become a hit until it was later featured in the David Lynch film Wild at Heart (1990). Lee Chesnut, an Atlanta radio station music director who loved David Lynch films, began playing the song and it quickly became a nationwide top ten hit in January 1991, reaching #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the first hit song of his career. James Calvin Wilsey played the distinctive lead guitar solo on the song.

The song is written in the mode of B Dorian. Through several years, many different versions and arrangements of the song were made before the final version was released. Both the bassline and drums (except the cymbals) were sampled from previous recordings of the song and then looped.

The song is a ballad about unrequited love, performed in what Allmusic describes as a "brooding, sorrowfully conflicted" tone.

Use in popular culture

The song was used in the 1989 film The Preppie Murder director by John Herzfeld

The song was used as a theme for supercouple Jack and Jennifer in the soap opera Days of our Lives.

The song was used in the Brett Ratner film, The Family Man, the Ridley Scott film, Matchstick Men, and the David Lynch film, Wild at Heart; each starring Nicolas Cage.

The song was used in two episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 "One Man and a Baby" from Season 1 and "Wildfire" from Season 2. It was also used in its spin-off 90210 in the season 3 episode "How Much Is That Liam in the Window".

The song was used in two episodes of Friends Season 2; "The One with the Prom Video" (2x14) and "The One Where Ross And Rachel...You Know" (2x15).

In Flight of the Conchords, the character Dave states that "Women like three things: Men in Kilts, Southern Comfort and Chris Isaak's Wicked Game."

The song was used in The Mentalist in the Season 4 Finale, "The Crimson Hat".

The song was used in the 1992 film Leaving Normal directed by Edward Zwick.

The song has been used in the soap operas The Young and the Restless, One Life to Live and General Hospital.

The master recording song was featured in Konami's rebooted version of their singing video game called Karaoke Revolution.

The song is covered by Pink on her 2013 tour, The Truth About Love Tour.

The song is covered by Phillip Phillips and available on the deluxe edition of his debut album, The World from the Side of the Moon.

John Pritchard auditioned with the song on The Voice UK (series 2) in 2013, and will.i.am turned his chair to become his coach.

The song is covered by Emika and available on her second album, Dva.

A cover of the song by Coves was also used in 2013 in the trailers for the BBC TV series The White Queen`.

The lyrics:

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 want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)

No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)

With you (This world is only gonna break your heart)

What a wicked game to 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 want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)

No, I want to 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 want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)

No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)

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.