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Dear Diamond Lyrics
Dear diamond, pretty and new
Perfectly flawless, too good to be true
Dear diamond, you shine like the sun
You wrap around my finger just like he does
You cost more than he wanted to lose
And with this ring I said I do
I promise to never do what I've done
I've lied to someone
Dear diamond, what will we do?
Lie like the devil or just face the truth
Dear diamond, be my saving grace
What you don't know will kill him, that I can't face
You cost more than he wanted to lose
And with this ring I said I do
I promise to never do what I've done
I've lied to someone, dear diamond
Dear diamond, with your band of gold
Some people you have, some people you hold
Dear diamond, I promise to keep
The secret I have while he's holding me
Perfectly flawless, too good to be true
Dear diamond, you shine like the sun
You wrap around my finger just like he does
And with this ring I said I do
I promise to never do what I've done
I've lied to someone
Lie like the devil or just face the truth
Dear diamond, be my saving grace
What you don't know will kill him, that I can't face
And with this ring I said I do
I promise to never do what I've done
I've lied to someone, dear diamond
Some people you have, some people you hold
Dear diamond, I promise to keep
The secret I have while he's holding me
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Submitted by
caseykins On Nov 04, 2011
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Lovely, such a lovely song. Definitely my favorite off the new album.
She's pretty much conversing with her wedding ring throughout the song and musing. It's very much like a Dear Diary song, but the diamond is her personal diary because it holds such significance.
"You wrap around my finger just like he does" basically says that he's wrapped around her finger (just like a wedding band) because he's so in love with her. Should she or should she not tell him that she cheated on him and she's been lying to his face? Things are pretty and shiny on the outside, but it's too good to be true.
"You cost more than he wanted to lose" moves into a metaphor that the ring is symbolizing the promise and vows that they made, and that she (or both of them) are going to pay a dear price for breaking the promise. The broken vows/promise would make him lose more than he could ever bear. It'll break him if he knows the truth. She can't face it.
"Dear diamond be my saving grace" means that she's praying with the ring now and she's made up her mind not to tell him. She's hoping he never finds out. The ring represents the new secret that she's keeping, only her and the ring know it now.
I'd like some clarification and input with the entire last verse. I love the phrasing of "some people you have, some people you hold" and understand that this means some people you can have a meaningless relationship or a fling with (have) and others you carry with you throughout life (hold). She's choosing to be more faithful and hold him through their marriage from now on because she realizes the intensity of her mistake. But how does this specifically relate to the wedding ring's band of gold? Is there more or have I got it all?
***Also, I'd like to add a correction. It's "Lie like the devil, or just face the truth", not "Well I like the devil, just face the truth".
This is how I always took the last verse (which kind of conflicts with the way you've already interpreted it, but perhaps we can meet some middle ground and actually figure it out?):
This is how I always took the last verse (which kind of conflicts with the way you've already interpreted it, but perhaps we can meet some middle ground and actually figure it out?):
I always looked at it the opposite you do, as far as the have/hold. I always pictured that when she says that "some people you have," those are the ones that stick with you, the ones you marry and carry throughout your life, etc., whereas the "people you hold" are the ones that are temporary. I look at it more like this - and I'll compare it...
I always looked at it the opposite you do, as far as the have/hold. I always pictured that when she says that "some people you have," those are the ones that stick with you, the ones you marry and carry throughout your life, etc., whereas the "people you hold" are the ones that are temporary. I look at it more like this - and I'll compare it to something simple, completely unrelated - you can have your own... hairdryer. And it's yours. Or, you can borrow somebody else's - you can hold onto your friend's hairdryer.. But eventually you're going to let go of it. (That's probably the stupidest comparison I've ever made, but hopefully it got my train of thought across.) So then, having that idea in mind - that the people you have are the ones that are with you permanently, by your side through it all, etc... and the people you hold are more temporary and such... We go on to the next couple of lines. "Dear diamond, I promise to keep / This secret I have while he's holding me." That part is important, I think, because it says a lot about her and how she sees herself and her infidelity. She's saying that while the man she cheated with was somebody she only held, the fact that he is now a secret means that she will always have him - he will always be there with her, always be there in between her and her husband, will always be weighing on her mind somewhere in the background. She can pretend it never happened but that doesn't mean she'll ever be able to forget it or stop feeling guilty about it. And so her husband is "holding" her - he's holding on to her and he thinks that he has her, but she's the kind of person you hold, not the kind of person you have. (Which, could possibly be just because of the secret that she has. It would separate them, I imagine, in a way that he's not aware of but in a way that she'd be way too aware of..) I'm not too sure about the importance of "with your band of gold," either, but I'm thinking it's just to show that even though she's not the person to be 'had,' she is now, anyways - the band of gold is just another thing holding on to her, maybe? I don't know. Hehe. Maybe that makes sense, maybe it doesn't, maybe you think I'm right, maybe you're more right than I am - I'm not sure... But anyways, there's my two cents.
*Lie like the devil, or just face the truth