Diamonds And Rust

Well I'll be dammed

Here comes your ghost again

But that's not unusual.

It's just that the moon is full

And you happened to call

And here I sit

Hand on the telephone

Hearing a voice I'd known

A couple of light years ago

Heading straight for a fall

As I remember your eyes

Were bluer than robin's eggs

My poetry was lousy you said

Where are you calling from?

A booth in the midwest

Forty years ago I bought you some cufflinks

And you brought me something

And we both know what memories can bring

They bring diamonds and rust

Well you burst on the scene

Already a legend

The unwatched phenomenon

The original vagabond

You strayed into my arms

And there you stayed

Temporarily lost at sea

The Madonna was your's for free

Yes the girl on the half shell

Would keep you unharmed

Now I see you standing with brown leaves falling all around

Snow in your hair

Now you're smiling out the window of that crummy hotel

Over Washingion Square

Our breath comes out white clouds mingles & hangs in the air

Speaking strickly for me, we both could have died then and there

Now you're telling me

You're not nostalgic

Then give me another word for it

You who're so good with words

And at keeping things vague

Cause I need some of that vagueness now

It's all come back to clearly

I want to love you dearly

And if you're offering me diamonds and rust

I've already paid