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Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez

Diamonds and Rust
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Well I'll be damned
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Here comes your ghost again
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But that's not unusual
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It's just that the moon is full
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And you happened to call
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And here I sit
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Hand on the telephone
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Hearing a voice I'd known
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A couple of light years ago
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Heading straight for a fall
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As I remember your eyes
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Were bluer than robin's eggs
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My poetry was lousy you said,
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Where are you calling from?
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A booth in the midwest
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Ten years ago
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I bought you some cufflinks
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You brought me something
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We both know what memories can bring
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They bring diamonds and rust
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Well you burst on the scene
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Already a legend
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The unwashed phenomenon
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The original vagabond
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You strayed into my arms
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And there you stayed
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Temporarily lost at sea
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The Madonna was yours for free
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Yes the girl on the half-shell
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Would keep you unharmed
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Now I see you standing
            
With brown leaves falling around
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And snow in your hair
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Now you're smiling out the window
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Of that crummy hotel
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Over Washington Square
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Our breath comes out white clouds
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Mingles and hangs in the air
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Speaking strictly for me
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We both could have died then and there
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Now you're telling me
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You're not nostalgic
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Then give me another word for it
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You who are so good with words
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And at keeping things vague
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Because I need some of that vagueness now
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It's all come back too clearly
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Yes I loved you dearly
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And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
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I've already paid
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                                                                    18.11.2015


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