Video - Sting - Shape of my heart

Video - Sting - Shape of my heart

by Waine Evans

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He deals the cards as a meditation

And

he plays never suspect

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He doesn't play for the

he wins

He doesn't play for respect

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He deals the cards

find the answer

The sacred geometry of chance

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The hidden laws of a probable

The numbers lead a dance

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I know that the

are the swords of a soldier

I know that the clubs are weapons of war

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I know that

mean money for this art

But that's not the shape of my heart

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He may play the Jack of diamonds

He may lay the

of spades

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He may conceal a King in his hand

While the memory of it

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I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier

I know that the

are weapons of war

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I know that diamonds mean money for this art

But that's not the shape of my heart

That's not the

, the shape of my heart

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And if I told you that I loved you

You'd maybe

there's something wrong

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I'm not a man of too many faces

The

I wear is one

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But those who speak know nothing

And find out to their

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Like those who

their luck in too many places

And those who fear are lost

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I know that the ______ are the swords of a soldier

I know that the _____ are weapons of war

I know that ________ mean money for this art

But that's not the shape of my heart

That's not the shape of my heart

That's not the shape, the shape of my heart

Do you know what the song is about.​

​Sting explained in a 1993 interview, "I wanted to write about a card player, a gambler who gambles not to win but to try and figure out something; to figure out some kind of mystical logic in luck, or chance; some kind of scientific, almost religious law."

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Sting has clarified in an interview that he meant Tarot cards, "...the suits of the cards – diamonds mean money, clubs are weapons, spades are swords and the hearts are love – and I got more involved in this thing. The shape of the heart is not the shape of the human heart so there's a kind of conflict there between reality and fantasy."