[Verse 1]
I said you look pretty
All strung out on coke
You said it's not funny
But it wasn't a joke
And you won't remember
But I carried you home
You sat in the shower
While I washed off your clothes
[Chorus]
But isn't that what friends are for
Even if we used to be more?
Like lovers or partners in crime
And you were still mine
[Verse 2]
You said we should get out
While we still could
And I shoulda listened
But I misunderstood
Thought you wanted me tied down
I started to chafe
But it's easy to see now
You just wanted me safe
[Chorus]
And when the cops broke down our door
And held us both against our floor
Did we look like lovers or partners in crime?
Did you look like mine?
Or did we look like fools
Tryna get away with it all?
Thinkin' we'd be saved by a call
From each other
We were on the same boat
[Verse 3]
Didn't see you for ages
Didn't pick up your phone
Made it out of our cages
Never made it back home
I was late to the party
Of an old family friend
I was lookin' for parkin'
Thought I saw you again
[Chorus]
Someone I've seen before
You couldn't look any more
Like a lover or a partner in crime
Or something of mine
[Outro]
I said you look pretty
All strung out on coke
You said it's not funny
But it wasn't a joke
Partners in Crime was written by FINNEAS.
Partners in Crime was produced by FINNEAS.
FINNEAS released Partners in Crime on Fri Oct 04 2019.
In an interview with Billboard, Finneas remarked:
Wrote this one in London on July 1, the night [after] we played Glastonbury. It was a guitar part I’d been playing absentmindedly all summer but that night, all the lyrics came out right. The first verse of this song is true, the rest is historical...
In an interview with Ones to Watch, Finneas explained:
I remember working on the production for “Partners in Crime” in Moscow, working on it all day thinking, ‘I think this is done,’ getting on the plane that night to go to St. Petersburg in Russia and being like, ‘This is not done!’ I finished it...
In an interview with Pitchfork, Finneas explained:
There’s a song on my EP called “Partners in Crime” that was totally the hardest to get right. The song centers around an acoustic guitar riff and I just could not get the acoustic guitar to sound the way that I wanted it to sound. I ended up record...