Diamonds and Coal

Album: Light Grenades (2006)
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  • If it's good to complicate then both of us are doing fine
    Just keep your eyes on your part and leave me alone to mine
    If it's good to instigate we're a fast horse, bet on us
    I'm not calling you an animal
    I think we just fight too much

    Come on, in spite of this we're doing just fine
    Even diamonds start as coal
    Give us time to shine
    Even diamonds start as coal

    We're both aligned in frame of mind, but circumstance has got us good
    And now you're seeing a side of me I wished no one ever would
    Yeah, if it's right to pick a fight, we're fingers in a sugar bowl
    Love isn't perfect
    Even diamonds start out as coal

    Come on, in spite of this we're doing just fine
    Even diamonds start as coal
    Give us time to shine
    Even diamonds start as coal
    Oh ooh, even diamonds start as coal
    Yeah, we're incomplete and infantile
    Even diamonds start as coal

    Give it time girl, the fire feels divine
    The sweetest things
    They burn before they shine
    We think way too much
    Look at us losing touch
    A promise is a promise until

    Yeah, in spite of this we're doing just fine
    Even diamonds start as coal
    Give us time to shine
    Even diamonds start as coal
    Oh ooh, even diamonds start as coal
    Yeah, we're incomplete and infantile
    Even diamonds start as coal, oh Writer/s: Benjamin Lee Kenney, Brandon Charles Boyd, Christopher E Kilmore, Jose Anthony Ii Pasillas, Michael Aaron Einziger
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Stephan from Port Richey, FlHi ... This has nothing to do with diamond and coal. This is my first here in a very long time. There is a song by a female artist perhaps less than ten years ago. Here it is and it is a VERY Partial lyric and i hope that someone out there can recall this song...It was sung with such great passion.

    For this I pray that you will hold me dear. That is all i can recall. Again it was a female artist and the song was very VERY
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