Sting talked about "Shape Of My Heart" in a 1993 promotional 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. So this guy's a philosopher, he's not playing for respect and he's not playing for money, he's just trying to figure out the law - there has to be some logic to it. He's a poker player so it's not easy for him to express his emotions, in fact he doesn't express anything, he has a mask, and it's just one mask and it never changes."
This is one of the rare songs that is co-written by Sting's longtime guitarist, Dominic Miller. In Lyrics By Sting, the singer remembered Miller bringing him the "beautiful guitar riff" and going for a walk along the riverbank and through the woods to figure out the lyrics. "When I got back, the whole song was written in my head. Dominic now thinks that I find lyrics under a rock somewhere... He could, of course, be right," Sting wrote.
This song was edited into the end of the 1994 movie Leon: The Professional.
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