Lana Del Rey, Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust lyrics
Lana Del Rey [Elizabeth Woolridge Grant] New York City, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Lana Del Rey, Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust lyrics]
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'd 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
But where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest
(In the) fifty years ago
I bought you some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memoriеs can bring
They bring diamonds and rust
Well you burst on the scеne 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
I see you standing
With brown leaves falling around
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 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
Because I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
I once loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid
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'd 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
But where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest
(In the) fifty years ago
I bought you some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memoriеs can bring
They bring diamonds and rust
Well you burst on the scеne 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
I see you standing
With brown leaves falling around
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 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
Because I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
I once loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid