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1999 song by Garbage

"Temptation Waits" is a 1999 song performed by the band Garbage and is featured in their second studio album Version 2.0 as the opening song. "Temptation Waits" was not released as an international single, but was released as an airplay only sixth single in Spain to mark the year long chart run of Version 2.0 on the Spanish album charts and to mark its certification of the European Platinum Award by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for 1 million sales of Version 2.0 across Europe. In North America, "Temptation Waits" was licensed to TV's Angel, Dawson's Creek, The Sopranos and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and was included on the 1999 tie in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album.

"Temptation Waits" was performed at almost every show on the Version 2.0 tour; where it began as a mid set inclusion before being promoted to open each show. Once established as the setlist opener, "Temptation Waits" was intro taped by a recording of a section of the 4th Movement of Mahler's "Symphony No. 5", famously used in the climax scene of the 1971 movie Death in Venice. During the last leg of the tour in 1999, it was replaced as opener by "#1 Crush" and moved back into the mid set, and led into by a sample of voice over dialogue from the trailer to the 1965 exploitation film Bad Girls Go to Hell. "Temptation Waits" was initially absent from the BeautifulGarbage tour set list, but returned to the band's live set in mid 2002 where it remained a common feature of the band's show until the end of that year. "Temptation Waits" was not performed again until 2012, when it once again became a regular in the setlist. A live version of "Temptation Waits" recorded at the Roskilde Festival, Denmark in June 1998 was included on the repackaged Version 2.0 Special Live Edition, released by Mushroom Records the following year.

"Temptation Waits" received a mostly positive reception from music critics around the time of Version 2.0s release. Billboard journalist Bradley Bambarger wrote that the song's "slice of predatory swagger opens the album in fine style, with an '80s pop sound a la Psychedelic Furs updated with aplomb" In a review for MTV Online, Alexandra Flood wrote: "It's a rock/disco anthem about obsessive love. Continuous changing movements make it not only good, but also interesting. "Temptation Waits" is in itself a wolf in sheep's clothing. It comes on subdued at first, but opens up into a memorable, downright danceable, single bound song." Peter Murphy of Hot Press compared the song's "claustrophobic meshes of flesh and technology" thematic to the protagonist of Shinya Tsukamoto’s 1989 cyberpunk film Tetsuo.