Sniper of the Heart - Janis Ian

When you take a chance, romance is waiting for you

Lurking at the corner bar

Every soggy street, a lonely alley that means

You don’t have to search too far

Just check your shadow, kiddo

You know what you really are

Every false caress, a messy ending for

Someone who’d rather jump the gun

Every lonely heart beating like a lark

Waiting for the cover to be broken and the games begun

It’s tragic, magic

You know what you really will become

Sniper of the heart, you’ll be taken

Long before you learn to give

Sniper of the heart, someone’s waiting for you tonight

So guard your life

You may fall apart — all this waiting

Longing for the one who’s right

Guard your hero’s heart

You may own the night

Every passing face a racing shadow

In the marathon of lover’s lane

Strangers in the night.

Colliding bodies

When you’re blinded by the hidden flame

And every stranger’s danger

Wanderlust until you’re tamed

When you steal a kiss, the risk is greater

Than the given one you might have missed

Sneaking like a rat, quiet as a cat

Motion in the window there’s a shadow

And a silent hit

You check your shadow, kiddo

I know what you really want to risk

Stranger of the heart, you’ll be taken

Long before you learn to give

Sniper of the heart, I am waiting for you tonight

Guard your life

Sniper of the heart

Longing for the one who’s right

Sniper of the heart

You will own the night