DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH

Sitting, waiting, measuring out time

In TV programmes and red wine

Does she mind, does she mind?

Where there once was a river there's now a lake

How much can she store, what will it take

Until she breaks? (Not, will she break?)

How long till she breaks?

She shuts her eyes, she bites her lip

Goes with the trip, but she's slipping away

This Diamond in the Rough is cut up

By the rut that shuts doors in her face

Chorus

She's a Diamond in the Rough

She says "I don't like all of this stuff

I keep on spiking my system"

She's a Diamond in the Rough

She says "My life wouldn't be so tough

If there was just somebody listening'"

Smiling wearily, she wishes for change

Pins all her hopes on anything strange

But it's all the same, all the same

Her facets are fading thru' the passing years

They disappear

They wash away with her tears

Don't close your eyes, don't bite your lip

Don't lose your grip, I want you to shine

But Diamond you must know, as I do

You're in the wrong place at the wrong time

Chorus

Half Chorus

She's a Diamond in the Rough

She says "I don't like all of this stuff

I keep on spiking my system"

She's a Diamond

Copyright Mathie 1986

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