“Hey Nikita is it cold
In your little corner of the world?
You could roll around the globe
And never find a warmer soul to know.Oh I saw you by the wall,
Ten of your tin soldiers in a row.
With eyes that looked like ice on fire,
The human heart a captive in the snow.”

— Elton John

Nikita
Song lyrics, Ice on Fire (1985)

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English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist 1947

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