Walking On Thin Ice

Album: Onobox (1981)
Charted: 35 58
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  • Walking on thin ice
    I'm paying the price
    For throwing the dice in the air
    Why must we learn it the hard way
    And play the game of life with your heart?

    I gave you my knife
    You gave me my life
    Like a gush of wind in my hair
    Why do we forget what's been said
    And play the game of life with our hearts?

    I may cry some day
    But the tears will dry whichever way
    And when our hearts return to ashes
    It'll be just a story
    It'll be just a story

    I knew a girl
    That tried to walk across the lake
    'Course it was winter when all this was ice
    That's a hell of a thing to do, you know
    They say this lake is as big as the ocean
    I wonder if she knew about it? Writer/s: Yoko Ono
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing
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Comments: 3

  • Jamal from Portland OrI don't know if she is encouraging to walk on thin ice or if it is a reference to something else or maybe she had done it befo but it is not safe to walk on ice I can tell you here in the port we don't do it, you could fall in the water and get hypothermia
  • AnonymousDid she get paid for that?
  • Caio from BrazilI wanted to know the model of her glasses. It is very funny.
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