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"Shape of My Heart" is a song by British musician Sting. It was released in August 1993 as the fifth single from the album Ten Summoner's Tales. The song was co-written by guitarist Dominic Miller. It was used for the end credits of the film Léon[2] starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman, and within the 1993 film Three of Hearts.[3]

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"Shape of My Heart"
Single by Sting
from the album Ten Summoner's Tales
Released	23 August 1993 (1993-08-23)[1]
Length	4:41
Label	A&M
Songwriter(s)	Gordon Sumner Dominic Miller
Producer(s)	Sting Hugh Padgham
Sting singles chronology
"Fields of Gold" (1993) "Shape of My Heart" (1993) "Nothing 'Bout Me" (1993)

Despite failing to reach the top 50 in the UK upon its release, it has become a pop classic and one of Sting's works most closely associated with his solo career.

Larry Adler played the harmonica section in the song. The song has been sampled in many tracks since its release, including "Shape" (2003) by Sugababes and "Rise & Fall" (2003) by Craig David.

The song's guitar riff was also interpolated by Juice WRLD on the worldwide hit "Lucid Dreams" (2018) and on "You’re Mines Still" (2020) by rapper BLEU.[4]

Background and writing

Sting explained that through "Shape of My Heart", he wanted to tell the story of a "card player, a gambler who gambles not to win but to try to figure out something; to figure out some kind of mystical logic in luck, or chance; some kind of scientific, almost religious law."[5][6]

[Sting] We wrote a song together — “Shape of My Heart”. Dom came in with this fantastic riff — beautiful cadence, sort of Bach-like descending baseline. So we spent the morning structuring it, making it into a song. Here’s a verse here and a verse there and there’s a key change there. So I just go for a walk and I have it in my headphones and I just walk around. A few hours later I’ve got at least the concept of what the song is telling me, which is about a gambler. And Dom said, “Where’d you get this shit from?” I said, “I don’t know.” It just occurs to me but the music tells me the story.

[Dominic Miller] Well it’s a huge compliment, I think. But I mean the truth behind that one is that that riff is that I just actually came up with that motif as an exercise for myself, just as a warm-up exercise based on sixth chords. And it’s like that takes inspiration from, kind of from Chopin-type chords, piano chords. I was just messing around with that, kind of like the way John McLaughlin would write chord sequences. He wasn’t really articulating the third so much — it’s much more about the sixth is what, like, tells you what it is. And so I was just having fun with that and what I think about it is when I hear rappers and an artist using that riff, I’m kind of smiling at myself, first of all thinking that unbeknownst to them they’re actually playing classical music from Europe. I can’t really claim it as my own really because that’s that was the source and I just reorganized that idea. And then it was Sting’s imagination as a songwriter to — this is a perfect example of collaboration — he was the one who said well that is a song. And I’m going, “It’s just an exercise, mate.” And cut to he walks in the garden and comes back with a lyric, and that song was written in a day. It was just done. It didn’t take three months, and sometimes songs are like that, you know? So I’m very flattered, but I don’t really claim total ownership with it because I know where it came from, and it came from classical music.[7]

Music video

The video was directed by Doug Nichol and premiered in September 1993.[8] It was filmed at Sting's Lake House in Wiltshire.

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance of "Shape of My Heart"

Chart (1993)	Peak position
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[9]	10
UK Singles (OCC)[10]	57
Chart (2014)	Peak position
France (SNEP)[11]	177
Chart (2015)	Peak position
France (SNEP)[12]	151
Chart (2016)	Peak position
France (SNEP)[13]	96

Year-end charts

Annual chart performance for "Shape of My Heart"

Chart (1993)	Peak position
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[14]	85

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "Shape of My Heart"

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI)[15]	Gold	35,000
Japan (RIAJ)[16] digital	Gold	100,000*
* Sales figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

На других языках

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[de] Shape of My Heart

Shape of My Heart ist ein Lied, das 1993 auf dem Album Ten Summoner’s Tales von Sting veröffentlicht wurde und dessen Melodie vom Gitarristen Dominic Miller stammt. Sting erklärte, im Liedtext zu Shape of My Heart wollte er die Geschichte eines Kartenspielers erzählen, „der nicht spielt, um zu gewinnen, sondern um zu versuchen, etwas herauszufinden; um eine Art mystische Logik im Glück oder Zufall herauszufinden; eine Art wissenschaftliches, fast religiöses Gesetz.“[1] Das Lied wurde für den Abspann des Films Léon – Der Profi mit Jean Reno und Natalie Portman verwendet.

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- [en] Shape of My Heart (Sting song)

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[it] Shape of My Heart (Sting)

Shape of My Heart è un singolo di Sting[3] estratto dal suo quarto album solista, Ten Summoner's Tales, nel 1993. La canzone è stata scritta da Sting insieme al chitarrista Dominic Miller. Il pezzo è stato utilizzato nei titoli di coda del film Léon di Luc Besson del 1994, con Jean Reno e Natalie Portman. È stata inoltre inclusa nell'edizione britannica e giapponese dell'album live ...All This Time nel 2001.

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[ru] Shape of My Heart (песня Стинга)

«Shape of My Heart» — песня британского музыканта Стинга из альбома 1993 года Ten Summoner’s Tales. В оригинальном издании на CD представлена десятым по счёту треком[1][2]. Помимо записи в альбоме издана также на сингле в форматах 7″ и CD[3][4], кроме того, эта песня была включена в мини-альбом 1993 года Demolition Man[5] и в концертный альбом 2010 года Live in Berlin[6]. Французский режиссёр Люк Бессон использовал «Shape of My Heart» в своём фильме «Леон».

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