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Blue Rodeo: Diamond Mine (1989)





Cleave Anderson - Drums
Jim Cuddy - Guitar, Vocals, Bongos
Bazil Donovan - Bass, Bongos
Greg Keelor - Guitars, Vocals, Bongos
Bob Wiseman - Piano, Organ, Bongos, Accordian and the Grinder
 God and Country Forever lost in comparisons Between you and the better man Yea you're always so quick To take a bow I've got to laugh at your circus sympathy And your postcard sincerity Don't you ever get tired Of being yourself It's getting so hard to find you As you fade into your world of reprisal As you slip into the comfort Of your denial Your patriotic smile Your go down in style And you say that you're not to blame Yea you're proud of what you did And you'd do it again All in the name of God and country But that's too bad about the little snag Cause getting caught is such a drag Even in the name of God and country Still you're all the same to me You're just trying to make points on national t.v. Yea you try to make points for God God and country You call this justice I call this self-service Solo And I hope that I never find What you call good conscience Or peace of mind As another man dies for God and country Cause I'm sure while you're sitting there talking Well the bombs are falling All in the name All in the name All in the name of God and country  How Long I hear you talking everywhere Words on the loudspeakers Hanging in the air Everywhere And I remember the words You told me too This town's full of losers Trying to get a piece of you You really think that's true How long will it take Til you open up your eyes I've been gone for years You never even realized How long how long In a corner of the world on election day You watched your star shatter Then fade away Too many wasted days With your eyes wide open a hand on the wheel You looked back hard trying to Remember just how love feels How does it feel How long will it take Til you open up your eyes I've been gone for years You never even realized How long how long What does it take To let you know It's all coming down Don't waste my time Solo You used to walk down the street Like the chosen one Everybody got your blessings Now they're gone Where have they gone I ever tell you what I thought Of what you did for me Some things cost too much Even when they're free Even when they're free How long will it take Til you open up your eyes I've been gone for years You never even realized How long how long Oh how long how long  Love and Understanding I live on this rock Where the grass don't grow And talk is cheap well I ought to know And I'm not proud of this world we've made Still it's a part of you and me And we're the only ones who can Make it change Many have tried In many ways All I see are longer rows of crosses on the Soldiers' graves So do what you have to And when it's all been said Love and understanding are the best answers I've heard yet I've heard yet Solo Yea so tell me what's the price of our achievements What's the cost of our pride When our obvious brutality Is lost before our eyes So we choke down the pills So that you don't have to bother Trading one hypnotic state for another Many have tried In many ways All I see are longer rows of crosses on the Soldiers' graves So do what you have to And when it's all been said Love and understanding are the best answers I've heard yet So do what you have to And when it's all been said Love and understanding are the best answers I've heard yet I've heard yet  Girl Of Mine Girl of mine Where did we go wrong Oh you never once said you loved me And you never once called my name And now I I can see the way My memories like cigarettes Blow smoke upon the screen I stare up to the empty face That hangs inside my dreams In the words of love I hesitate They all come rushing in to me Too late too late Days and nights Wondering what could it be Did you need somebody stronger Someone to see you through Oh girl I never knew Now your lipstick and your powder They're all put away in drawers But the traces of our love affair Still hide behind the doors I lie awake afraid to sleep Cause I see the face I knew I'd never keep I'd never keep Too much to bear Too much I fall down drunk Too much I care Tell me now Do the words of love still seem the Same to you Now we learned the angry lessons And we still came back for more Forget somehow what came before My senses have been shocked And I'm alive to every pain Your quiet laughter comes to me It echoes in the rain In the darkness of my lonely room I pray that you won't fade Away too soon Too soon It's too much to bear It's too much I fall down drunk Too much I care Oh...  Diamond Mine And our love shines Like a diamond mine You say the party's over But like a drunken fool I never know when to leave It's just that in the eyes of this beholder You mean everything to me Yea you say that you don't love me Yea you talk about the other boys And you laugh in my face But I know when you're feeling sad and lonely No other boy can take my place Cause when I look into your eyes Well our love shines Yea our love shines Like a diamond mine Nothing's as obvious as what is lost Nothing's as painful as the cost Let it shine Let it shine Like a diamond mine Solo And I hear all these rumours about you Yea the trash lines up at my door just to bring me the news But all it does is make me kind of wonder Why are people so eager to be so cruel Cause when I look into your eyes Well our love shines Yea our love shines Yea our love shines Like a diamond mine Like a diamond mine Like a diamond mine Like a diamond mine  Now and Forever I don't know if I ever wanted The things you said we wanted together Now and forever Too many nights I'd lie awake Listening to every breath you'd take Like a stranger Feel so out of place here I don't wonder what went wrong But I wish your memory would leave me alone Now and forever I sit alone in this empty house And your voice just like a ghost It comes to me Chill passes through me I packed your clothes and photographs Sent your little treasures back to where you're living Guess now I'm forgiven I can't believe it's true I thought I'd always be in love with you Now and forever Solo My life goes on just like before In and out of closing doors I don't love it But I learn to rise above it I found a girl now who will love me the way I want her to She don't shout it We don't ever talk about it I can't believe it's true I thought I'd always be in love with you Now and forever  House of Dreams Can't stand the sight of myself Lying in bed all day with the curtains drawn Staring at the clock on the window ledge The angry words you said come back so strong Sometimes love quits Oh when the pieces don't fit And suddenly all your world Falls to the floor And all your wild days Oh fall away Can't see much point in them anymore In this house of dreams I let you walk like a ghost unseen Girl on the day you left Out walked my everything Must have thought you'd always be there I never even noticed when the changes came one day Seems one minute you were standing close I turned around again And girl you were far away And every plan we made Oh I just let them fade And pile up on the floor Beside the bed Now you're gone away Oh but your memory stays I sit here thinking of the things I never said In this house of dreams I let you walk like a ghost unseen Girl on the day you left Out walked my everything Solo Sometimes love quits Oh when the pieces don't fit And suddenly all your world Falls to the floor Now you're gone away Oh but your memory stays I hear your voice behind every single door In this house of dreams I let you walk like a ghost unseen Girl on the day you left Out walked my everything  Nice Try Well the best defence is the bright lights Underneath which you commit that dark crime Look I was there I watched it all go down And I still can't believe my eyes Nice try it's so wild Nice try it's so wild It's like a car burning on the side of the road Well someone got torched for not doing what they're told It's like a paid vacation when they change your name It's like yesterday's news is the same again and again, and again..... It's so wild Again and again It's so wild Solo So when you dish the dirt you might as well dish the worst Cause no one expects you to tell the truth And when they turn around they think that Something must be wrong Cause no one could make up a story so far gone It's so wild So far gone It's so wild Fact or fiction all parties deny Any involvement at the scene of the crime They look you cold straight in the eye And say man You got the wrong guy But nice try it's so wild Nice try it's so wild  Fall in Line I don't know where it all began I only know what I was told Now rumours fly in from everywhere People got so cold I don't mind I'll stand anywhere with you anytime Oh when the night is falling Conversation just wastes your time Oh I'll fall in line I'll fall in line People make up the wildest things I know that sometimes they're true But you don't have to hide a thing from me I've had my troubles too I've got time To keep walking beside you forever Girl I don't mind When the streets are empty Oh and you're feeling lost and left behind I'll fall in line I'll fall in line Solo I've seen the shadows coming over you When some fool drags you down You know they're watching everything you do Don't let it turn you around Walk on by Don't let the world of suggestion catch your eye Oh when the night is falling girl and you need Someone to hide behind Oh I'll fall in line I'll fall in line I'll fall in line  One Day I never been a mess like this before Coming apart at the seams I feel like a fugitive Walking through another man's dreams I go to bed thinking about caving in Cursing everything I've done Wake up lying in a sweat In a new day's sun One day Out of the blue I'll just walk away Out of your life No alibi Baby this time we got through it I don't think next time we'll do it And one day I will One day I will One day I will I'll be set free You never can tell where the nightmares dwell People change everyday I guess it only matters Whose side you're on anyway But I remember a time you didn't look so fine Sure had a different sound Now when you get in Honey I don't want to be around One day Out of the blue I'll just walk away Out of your life No alibi Baby this time we got through it I don't think next time we'll do it And one day I will One day I will One day I will I'll be set free Solo Well everybody watches you When you walk And you don't care at all But I'll be there when The pieces start to fall One day Out of the blue I'll just walk away Out of your life No alibi Baby this time we got through it I don't think next time we'll do it And one day I will One day I will One day I will I'll be set free  Florida And I remember Florida The land of endless malls Images of Elvis flicks Convertibles and blondes And I remember crying As you walked away along the shore The last words I heard you say were what a bore And I remember drinking In those air-conditioned bars Putting all my quarters in a juke-box With big silver stars And I remember Nat King Cole Singing a song about the rain Oh I'm feeling blue again Oh yea I'm feeling blue again And it was just like a vacation And I'm sure we had us some fun It was just like a vacation And I swear we even sat out in the sun You see my mother owned a trailer home On west Broward past A1A And to beat the north wind We took a spin To that tin can by the sea Well I thought she was mine But she was just passing time She even passed out of town in my car And left me with Nat King Cole And the silver stars Oh Nat King Cole and the silver stars And it was just like a vacation And I'm sure we had us some fun It was just like a vacation And I swear we even sat out Yea I swear we even sat out Yea I swear we even sat out in the sun In the sun In the sun In the sun  Fuse Single file in the work line You need a card to die in my mine Life ain't so bad working underground Better than dodging bullets and army rounds Shut your mouth Don't complain If you want to see your family again Cause I can't explain All these accidents in your work camps All we're doing Is pissing on a fuse that's burning All we're doing Is pissing on a fuse that's burning That's burning Politics goes in and out of fashion Like mood rings and new religions Tight lipped on the news wire While the noose around your neck gets pulled tighter and tighter All we're doing Is pissing on a fuse that's burning All we're doing Is pissing on a fuse that's burning That's burning That's burning  The Ballad of The Dime Store Greaser & The Blonde Mona Lisa As the seconds are ticking in the corner of her eye Nothing comes as fast as a glib reply Like a kid who's tired of a busted old toy The pleasure's worn thin so she makes a little extra noise So the dime store greaser and the blonde Mona Lisa Twist on smiles just to please each other Until one of them finds that someone new Well the other one is just going to have to do Sometimes you get what you want So be careful what you ask for Remember what you got Tossing her pennies in the wishing well Mona Lisa reaches over for the sleeping pills Solo Like a jerk that butts into the front of the line She's got her reasons and he don't mind Absence is supposed to make the heart grow fonder He's hoping her vacation lasts a little bit longer And they both have their tickets for the promised land Still they don't appreciate what they have They can't see what's right in front of their eyes They've been looking so long they finally went blind And they lost what was right in front of their eyes Produced by Malcolm Burn and Blue Rodeo All songs written by Keelor/Cuddy All songs 1988,1989 Risque Disque Music/CAPAC Copyright 1988,1989 Risque Disque Inc. under license to WEA Music of Canada Ltd. A Warner Communications Company. All rights reserved. Used with Permission.

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