| Bob Dylan – Black Diamond Bay Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| There is a hotel in Black Diamond Bay. The hotel is filled with guests who are all charecters. There is a women who has had a rough past, she is looking for love and maybe thinking about killing herself. She has a boyfriend who we later find out is a soldier that buys her a ring but she cannot stand him.There is a man who is gambling and keeps losing to the dealer, and through all this the gambler is hitting on the women but she only similes. When night falls the last ship leaves taking with all and any hope of escape from the earthquakes and explosions the eruption will cause. In the morning another man "The Greek" is getting a rope to hang himself with and a pen that writes for his suicide letter. As he runs back up the stairs his path crosses with the women. The soldier in the lobby is buying a ring for his fiance from a tiny man. Just then the electricity goes out. Greek runs out of room rope around neck to see what is going on. The gambler unphased by this tells the dealer to "open up another deck." In the aftermath her boyfriend gives her the ring rudley telling her how much it cost and she now realising she could die decides to leave him by telling him, "that ain't enough." She then runs upstairs to pack and leave and stops at the greek's room to talk but he tells her to go away. At the moment the volcano erupted. The emotionally distrought soldier is now cuddled in a corner with the tiny man that sold him the ring and they both are sexually attracted to each other and "thinking of forbidden love." But thorugh all this the island begins to sink into the ocean and all the while the gambler was still playing he finally breaks the bank and all the dealer can say is "its too late now." The soldier and the tiny man are now nibbling ears. They both have discovered something about themselves on the day they died. Then next I beleive that the women was cheating on the soldier with the greek. The greek stricken with guilt, because he possibly is married decides to kill himself. The women is now at the edge of the balcony ready to die along with this sinking island hears a stranger tell her that, "my darling I love you very much." With all the drama that was going on at the hotel when the news get ahold of it and the veiwer hears Walter Kronkite tell the tale of the sinking of Black Diamond Bay, we know nothing of the people there as veiwers of the news. So how do we reply "I never did plan to go anyway to Black Diamond Bay." | |
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