Icy Blue Heart

(John Hiatt)



She came on to him like a slow moving cold front

His beer was warmer than the look in her eye

She sat on the stool and said what do you want

She said give me a love that don't freeze up inside.



He said I have melted some hearts in my time dear

But to sit next to you Lord I shiver and shake

And if I knew love well I don't think I'd be here

Asking myself if I had what it takes.



To melt your icy blue heart

Should I start

To turn what's been frozen for years

Into a river of tears?



These days we all play cool calm and collected

Our lips could turn blue just shooting the breeze

But under the frost we thought he detected

A warm blush of red and the touch of her knee.



He said you're a beauty like I've never witnessed

And I've seen the northern lights dance in the air

But I've felt the cold that can follow the first kiss

And there's not enough heat in the fires burning there.



To melt your icy blue heart

Should I start

To turn what's been frozen for years

Into a river of tears?



To melt your icy blue heart, ah heart...