Lyric discussion by shineyh 

Cover art for The Diamond Sea lyrics by Sonic Youth

i think the diamond sea could be drugs cocaine perhaps (everything has to be drugs hah) and the mirror what they are snorting off as well as the self reflection and the relationship to which some of the other comments were referring to or am i way off? oh and i thought it was the diamond rain not the diamond ring also should we report the thread or what?

"you better watch yourself when you jump into it 'cause the mirror's gonna steal your soul"

I'd definitely heard the cocaine interpretation before. "Time takes its crazy toll" to me indicates a life not turning out as expected, and cocaine as an escape. The mirror to me is not just the object that is being snorted off of but also carries an 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' escape gone wrong.

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