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Written by Penn, a professional songwriter and producer, and Moman, a session guitarist at Phil Spector 's Gold Star Studio, the song is the lament from an adulterer to his illicit lover, told from the adulterer's point of view. They continue their sin, "hiding in shadows where {Link without Title} don't belong" because their "love keeps coming on strong." At the climax of the song, the narrator fears "they're gonna find us some day." In the summer of 1966, while a DJ convention was being held in Memphis, Tennessee , the song was written in about thirty minutes. Penn and Moman were cheating while playing cards with Florida DJ Don Schroeder. They wrote the song while on a break. “We were always wanting to come up with the best cheatin’ song. Ever,” Penn said. The duo went to the hotel room of Quinton Claunch, founder of Hi Records , to write. Claunch told them, "boys, you can use my room on one condition, which is that you give me that song for James Carr. They said I had a deal, and they kept their word.” The song has been covered by many artists, including Elvis Costello , Ry Cooder , Aretha Franklin , Linda Ronstadt , Percy Sledge , Linda Thompson , Eva Cassidy , Frank Black , Diamanda Galás and the Flying Burrito Brothers . The song was a top 25 country music hit for the duet team of Archie Campbell and Lorene Mann in early 1968, and covered later that year by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton on their album, '' Just The Two Of Us ''. Southern novelist Ace Atkins titled his 2002 book "The Dark End of the Street" after the song. REFERENCES
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