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Diamond Smiles Lyrics
"Traffic's wild tonight"
Diamond smiles her cocktail smile.
Tonight she's in heavy disquise.
She looks at her wrist to clock the passing time.
"Weather's mild tonight"
She wonders will her glamour survive,
She wonders do they notice her eyes,
And can they see she's going down a third time.
Everybody tries,
It's Dale Carnegie gone wild,
But Barbara Cartland's child
long ago perfected the motionless glide.
In the low voltage noise,
Diamond seems so sure and so poised
She shimmers for the bright young boys,
And laugh's "Love is for others, but me it destroys"
The girl in the cake
Jumped out too soon by mistake,
Somebody said the whole things half baked
And Diamond lifts her glass and says "cheers"
She stands to the side
There's no more to this than meets the eye,
Everybody drinks Martini dry,
And talks about clothes and the latest styles.
Chorus:
They said she did it
With grace.
They said she did it
With style.
They said she did it all
Before she died
Oh No
I remember Diamond's smile
Nobody saw her go,
They said they should have noticed
'cos her dress was cut so low.
Well it only goes to show
Ha, ha, how many real men any of us know.
She went up the stairs,
Stood up on the vanity chair,
Tied her lame belt around the chandelier,
And went out kicking at the perfumed air.
Repeat Chorus
Diamond smiles her cocktail smile.
Tonight she's in heavy disquise.
She looks at her wrist to clock the passing time.
She wonders will her glamour survive,
She wonders do they notice her eyes,
And can they see she's going down a third time.
It's Dale Carnegie gone wild,
But Barbara Cartland's child
long ago perfected the motionless glide.
Diamond seems so sure and so poised
She shimmers for the bright young boys,
And laugh's "Love is for others, but me it destroys"
Jumped out too soon by mistake,
Somebody said the whole things half baked
And Diamond lifts her glass and says "cheers"
There's no more to this than meets the eye,
Everybody drinks Martini dry,
And talks about clothes and the latest styles.
With grace.
They said she did it
With style.
They said she did it all
Before she died
Oh No
I remember Diamond's smile
They said they should have noticed
'cos her dress was cut so low.
Well it only goes to show
Ha, ha, how many real men any of us know.
Stood up on the vanity chair,
Tied her lame belt around the chandelier,
And went out kicking at the perfumed air.
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"Diamond Smiles" was the second single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing. It was the follow-up to their successful single "I Don't Like Mondays" and also peaked at a respectable Number 13 in the UK Charts. The band has suggested that it might have fared better had it not been for a strike of lighting technicians on the powerful UK TV programme Top of The Pops at the time that the record was released and rising in the charts
Dealing with death, as had "I Don't Like Mondays", the song tells the story of a glamorous debutante ('Diamond') who commits suicide and is remembered only for her low-cut dress
The song also featured as one of four songs on an Australian EP called Surface Down Under that also featured past hits "Rat Trap", "Looking After No.1" and "Like Clockwork".
Well copied off Wikipedia Einstein. The song's about how superficial, vain and shit society is and the fact everyone puts on a socially acceptable act around each other. The fact that all that was remembered about her was her dress just shows how, because she was behaving in the same robotic socialite fashion of everyone else in the room, the only thing memorable about her was her appearance. And the fact she killed herself was probably a number of reasons, the most prominent vibe I got was the feeling of entrapment that she must have felt being unable to properly...
Well copied off Wikipedia Einstein. The song's about how superficial, vain and shit society is and the fact everyone puts on a socially acceptable act around each other. The fact that all that was remembered about her was her dress just shows how, because she was behaving in the same robotic socialite fashion of everyone else in the room, the only thing memorable about her was her appearance. And the fact she killed herself was probably a number of reasons, the most prominent vibe I got was the feeling of entrapment that she must have felt being unable to properly express herself and so she decided that was the only way out.
I wonder if it is about Marylin Monroe, hence "Diamond", "they said she did it with grace, they said she did it with style... I remember [her]" and the manner of her death described is metaphorical.
@moralclimate Bob tells the story that he read a small newspaper article about a young socialite who committed suicide at a party she was at. Somebody described the girl as “the brightest of diamonds” hence Bob got the title from that.
@moralclimate Bob tells the story that he read a small newspaper article about a young socialite who committed suicide at a party she was at. Somebody described the girl as “the brightest of diamonds” hence Bob got the title from that.