[MUSIC] Yoko Ono, "Walking on Thin Ice"

[rfmcdonald]

A recent post at Joe. My. God reminded me of how much I still enjoy Yoko Ono's 1981 song "Walking on Thin Ice". Recorded on 8 December 1980, just hours before Lennon was killed, in 2003 a re-released single became a huge international dance hit in 2003. (I own it.) The tension of John Lennon's guitar and the desperate longing of Ono's prescient lyrics do it for me, I think.

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?

Three months after the song's completion and Lennon's death, in February of 1981, Ono directed the song's music video.

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I don't pretend to know why YouTube flagged this video as potentially unsuitable for minors.