| Rob Thomas – Her Diamonds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song could be based upon Toni Morrison's Nobel prize winning novel, Beloved. In the novel, Beloved (the ghost of Sethe's dead daughter) asks Sethe to "tell me your diamonds." In essence, Sethe's "diamonds" are the things in her life that have caused her pain and tears. They are also a literal pair of diamond earrings that she cannot find ("it's hard to see them on the ground") At the end of the book, Sethe's former lover, Paul D., comes to see Sethe. She is lying in a bed, mourning. She talks about how she cannot defeat the oppression of slavery in her life--even though slavery is over and she is a free black woman ("She says 'I can't take it no more'"). A man comes to see her (like the narrator's voice in the song), she is lying down (like the woman in the song), and Sethe's tears are like diamonds. ...But maybe I'm only hearing those things within the song because they're what I think I'm hearing. I don't know if this is actually what inspired this song. It just makes sense within the context of both the song and the novel. |
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