Diamonds and Rust - Thean

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

Leave me where you found me With the arms of the darkness surrounding, around me Throw dirt in my eyes and try convincing me My love is blind I lost you in the rubble like a diamond to the rough Or a face beneath the stubble when the times are tending tough I'm giving up, on giving up Here we lay to rest a younger man than the one I now am I now am half the one he was when I smothered him beneath my skin Curse my fickle heart, my stubborn ways, my foolish pride Wondering if ever there a better way to live or least some better way to die Today is the first day of the rest of my life Today is the first day of the rest of my life I'm learning how to die I set my sails for safer waters, I left my love for higher ground, don't look down I am watching from above, you sinking like a stone I let you drown, I let you drown Down on luck like a sinner feeling sorry for myself Preacher man says if I'll be damned you're going straight to hell Your god don't love you anymore My god, don't you love me anymore I am feeling I'm not where I am going I am feeling I'm not where I am going I am feeling I'm not where I am going Or what I am going to become The air is static in the attic where the ghosts of our past live, they are rust and bone, rust and bone I still think of you out of habit like some kind of madness, but I am letting go, I'm letting go Of all my reasons for fear of failure, my demons beneath me screaming let me out, let me out But I'm buried beneath the covers with the ghosts of my lovers thinking never or now, never or now I'm losing sleep, I lost you once, I wont lose you now again I'll scream and shout till my lungs give out, till the blood runs cold beneath the skin Forever my love Forever my love Forever my love Forever my friend

Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh, yeah, yeah Ooh-ooh, oh You can have whatever you want from me Just give me your loyalty, I'll treat you like royalty Crowns and diamonds for my queen Yeah, I'll give you everything You can have anything, money don't mean a thing The world's all yours and it's on me See I like it when you let me spoil you (haha) Don't fight it baby 'cause you know A nigga like me, I just adore you (yeah) Ain't too good to tell you that I love you (shit) I know a good thing when I see it and Trust me when I tell you that I see you, clear (yeah) I know, we don't argue, take the high road You know, if I tell you, I don't lie though Falsetto in the bedroom, that's a high note La, la-la-la, la-la You can have whatever you want from me Just give me your loyalty, I'll treat you like royalty Crowns and diamonds for my queen Yeah, I'll give you everything You can have anything, money don't mean a thing The world's all yours and it's on me The world is all yours, it's all yours It's all yours and it's on me The world is all yours, it's all yours It's all yours and it's on me Pockets run deep like the blue sea (deep) Ain't no limit on the paper with the faces you ain't spent yet (yeah) Hashtag get the jet set (ooh) Black and gold, Aphrodite you my empress (sheesh, ha) Ain't tryna impress nobody but you Let's be honest baby, we the who's who I catch a case, they ever try to play you We can both make headline news They ain't never seen me run with no crew I just copped a new coupe, there's only room for two With you it's a win when I can't loose You can have whatever you want from me (baby, yeah) Just give me your loyalty, I'll treat you like royalty (oh-oh, ooh) Crowns and diamonds for my queen Yeah, I'll give you everything (I'll give you everything, yeah) You can have anything Money don't mean a thing (money don't mean a thing) The world's all yours and it's on me (the world's all yours, baby) The world is all yours, it's all yours It's all yours and it's on me (it's all yours and it's on me) The world is all yours, it's all yours It's all yours and it's on me (ooh, yeah)

One track mind, like a goldfish Stuck inside my petri dish I can't breathe, and I can't smile This better be worth my while I feel numb most of the time Lower, I get the higher I'll climb, and I will wonder why I got dark only to shine Lookin' for the golden light Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice (Burn, burn, burn bright) Forgo families, forgo friends That's how it started, and how it ends I can't open up, and cry Cause I've been silent all my life I feel numb most of the time Lower, I get the higher I'll climb, and I will wonder why I got dark only to shine Lookin' for the golden light Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice (Burn, burn, burn bright) (Burn, burn, burn bright) Ooh, I get dark Oh, and I'm in Hell I need a friend Ooh, but I can't yell Yeah, I'm no good No good to anyone Cause all I care about Is being number one Shine Lookin' for the golden light Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice Shine Lookin' for the golden light Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice Sacrifice I feel numb most of the time Lower, I get the higher I'll climb, and I will wonder why I got dark only to shine And I'll light up the sky Stars that burn the brightest Fall so fast and pass you by Puff like empty lighters I feel numb most of the time Lower, I get the higher I'll climb, and I will wonder why I got dark only to shine And I'll light up the sky Stars that burn the brightest Fall so fast and pass you by Spark like empty lighters