Diamonds
Also released on: How Then Shall We Live?
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Version 1 is a full studio recording
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7" Single, Solid Rock SRS-200 [See Singles page]
In Another Land The Sonrise Sampler Agitator The Very Best Of Larry Norman Volume 2 Siege At Elsinore |
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Version 2 is a re-recording of version 1
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In Another Land [Special Edition cassette]
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Version 3 is a live recording, performed solo on piano
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Version 4 is a live recording, performed solo on piano during a concert in Northern Ireland
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Version 5 is a live recording, performed solo with piano during a 1972 concert in New York
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lyrics versions 1 and 2
You can take your diamonds and lock them in your room
And you will lose everything you save
(La la la la la-ah)
You can take your flowers and lay them on his tomb
But I know he rose up from the grave
Wo ho ho oh
Oh ho oh
Oh ho oh oh oh-oh
And you will lose everything you save
(La la la la la-ah)
You can take your flowers and lay them on his tomb
But I know he rose up from the grave
Wo ho ho oh
Oh ho oh
Oh ho oh oh oh-oh
lyrics version 3
You can take your diamonds and lock them in your room
And you will lose everything you save
You can take your flowers and lay them at his tomb
But I know he rose up from the grave
And you will lose everything you save
You can take your flowers and lay them at his tomb
But I know he rose up from the grave
lyrics version 4
You can take your diamonds and lock them in your room
And you will lose everything you save
You can take your flowers and lay them at his tomb
But I know he rose up from the grave
I'd like to invite the band to come up [Spoken]
Wo oh oh ho
Ho oh oh
Oh ho oh oh oh
And you will lose everything you save
You can take your flowers and lay them at his tomb
But I know he rose up from the grave
I'd like to invite the band to come up [Spoken]
Wo oh oh ho
Ho oh oh
Oh ho oh oh oh
lyrics version 5
You can take your treasures and lock them in your room
And you will lose everything you save
You can take your flowers and lay them on his tomb
But I saw him rise up from the grave
And you will lose everything you save
You can take your flowers and lay them on his tomb
But I saw him rise up from the grave
"The orchestra intones the melodic, Jewish-oriented theme of an earlier song of Larry's, "The Son Of Man," and then the lyrics of earthly and heavenly concern give way to a very strident theme of struggle before peacefully, evangelistically encouraging the listener to give up all personal strife and follow the Lamb down the narrow road that leads one way toward Heaven."
See also the song Pianissimo Ridiculouso, which is very similar to the introduction Larry sometimes used when performing Diamonds