Songwriter: Yoko Ono
Producer: Yoko Ono Jack Douglas John Lennon
[Bridge]
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?
[Verse 1]
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 someday
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
[Chorus]
Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai
[Bridge]
Ooh-ahooh
[Verse 2]
"I knew a girl who 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 the lake is as big as the ocean
I wonder if she knew about it?"
[Chorus]
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?
[Verse 1]
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 someday
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
[Chorus]
Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai
[Bridge]
Ooh-ahooh
[Verse 2]
"I knew a girl who 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 the lake is as big as the ocean
I wonder if she knew about it?"
[Chorus]
- Walking on Thin Ice (1981)
- Radio Free: Cult Cuts That Were Too Cool For Radio (1998)
- Disco Not Disco (2000)
- Kiss Kiss Kiss
- A Thousand Times Yes
- Looking Over from My Hotel Window
- I Have a Woman Inside My Soul
- Mind Train
- Don’t Count the Waves
- Catman (The Rosies Are Coming)
- Who Has Seen the Wind?
- Sisters, O Sisters
- Don’t Be Scared
- Is Winter Here to Stay?
- O’ Sanity
- Sleepless Night
- Peter the Dealer
- What a Mess
- Open Your Box (Bonus Track)
- I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window
- Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking For A Hand In The Snow)
- Why
- Yang Yang
- What Did I Do!
- Now or Never
- Move on Fast
- Approximately Infinite Universe