Shawn Colvin Heart On Ice written by Judith Zweiman
Lucy Kaplanski
As I sit in the all night diner
You return to your easy chair
You awake to your work and your woman
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And I'll dream that it's me lying there
You can look in my eyes but you'll never know
There's an ache inside that I never show
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A defensive device
Meant to keep my heart on ice
I keep my heart on ice I chill my holy soul
I shield my fragile eggshell love
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>From attack during the groundswell
I'll act the part so well I'll play my finest role
But the furies take their toll and their price
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Is to keep my heart on ice
As I sit in the all night diner
You leaned back in your nightclub seat
I went out with two friends and a stranger
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With a laugh and a pang of defeat
But I looked in your eyes as I turned to go
Was there something there that you couldn't show
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A defensive device
Meant to keep your heart of ice
You keep your heart on ice you chill your holy soul
You shield your fragile eggshell love
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>From attack during the groundswell
You act the part so well you'll play your finest role
But the furies take their toll and their price
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Is to keep my heart on ice
As I sit in the all night diner
I was thinking of you at the bar
And the smiles and the jests and the whispers
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As I watched once again from afar
But I looked in your eyes and I never knew
Did I read you wrong did I misconstrue
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The defensive device I will keep my heart on ice
I keep my heart on ice I chill my holy soul
I shield my fragile eggshell love
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>From attack during the groundswell
I'll act the part so well I'll play my finest role
But the furies take their toll and their price
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Is to keep my heart on ice
From Fast Folks Records
FF 306/307 Aug/Sept 1986 Volume 3