"Smooth Operator" is a song by English band #Sade from their debut studio album, Diamond Life (1984). It was released as the album's third single in the United Kingdom as a 7-inch single with "Spirit" as its B-side, and as a 12-inch maxi single with "Smooth Operator" and "Red Eye" on side A and "Spirit" on side B.
In the United States, "Smooth Operator" was released in February 1985, serving as the album's second US single. The song became Sade's first top-10 entry in the US, peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in May 1985. It spent 13 weeks in the top 40, and also topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for two weeks. Although "Your Love Is King" remains Sade's highest-peaking single in the UK to date, "Smooth Operator" is the band's breakthrough single on the US charts, and their most successful single internationally.
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#Smooth #Operator
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Diamond life, lover boy.
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We move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.
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City lights and business nights.
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When you require street car desire for higher heights.
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No place for beginners or sensitive hearts
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When sentiment is left to chance.
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No place to be ending but somewhere to start.
No need to ask.
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He's a smooth operator,
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smooth operator,
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smooth operator,
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smooth operator.
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Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male.
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Across the north and south, to Key Largo, love for sale.
SOLO
Face to face, each classic case.
We shadow box and double cross,
Yet need the chase.
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A license to love, insurance to hold.
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Melts all your memories and change into gold.
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His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold.
No need to ask.
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He's a smooth operator, smooth operator,
smooth operator, smooth operator,
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Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male.
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Across the north and south, to Key Largo, love for sale.
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Smooth operator,
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smooth operator,
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smooth operator,
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smooth operator,
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smooth operator...
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Smooth Operator" is about a fashionable, devious man who lives a jet-set lifestyle. He is popular with women and breaks many hearts. The lyrics "Coast to Coast/L.A. to Chicago/Western Male/Across the North and South to Key Largo/Love for sale" imply that he uses women to obtain his income. It is also clear that he does not hold sincere affection for these women, as Adu sings near the end, "his heart is cold." The video to this song reinforces the message and the operator appears to be a professional criminal. In one scene, he displays a gun to an interested customer and in others, he appears to be a pimp. He succeeds in evading law enforcement, who have him under surveillance.
