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Like Diamonds There

by Pat Orchard

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As we get older life starts taking away.
It's hard enough when you can hold the hand that cannot squeeze back.
But there are those that pass that you never knew were even gone.
You remember them as they were.
For the girl who used to say "Rain puts diamonds in my hair". xxx

lyrics

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And so your name ain't the same as years ago
I heard he chained and maimed a girl I used to know
I wonder this when did a fist form from his hand
and the band of gold grow tight and grow cold

One moment of madness is all that it takes
To beat on the walls to feel the bones break
One moment of madness is all that you need
To carve your arm self-harm and bleed
One moment of madness I know how it feels
A white knuckle ride on life’s steering wheel
One moment of madness and I left you there
With a lifetime to die in and the rain in your hair

And did you hate your fate the estate where we grew
All the crime and grimy streets the drugs and the thugs you screwed
And your mother was another who liked the rougher men
Then again she was lonely and your father was one of them

One moment of madness is all that it takes
You rattle the bars but the cage it dont break
One moment of madness is all that you need
To pick off the scabs of self doubt and bleed
One moment of madness I know how it feels
A white knuckle ride on life’s steering wheel
One moment of madness and I left you there
With a lifetime to die in and the rain in your hair


Forty watts is the sun in a gloomy room
Where your daughter, addicted was evicted from your womb
And the end when it came was so expected
And connected to your loss the needle and the vein

One moment of madness is all that it takes
You beat on the walls to feel your bones your break
One moment of madness is all that you need
To carve on the arm self-harm and bleed
One moment of madness I know how it feels
A white knuckle ride on life’s steering wheel
A moment of madness and I left you there
With a lifetime to die in and the rain in your hair…

Like diamonds there

And so your name ain't the same as years ago
There's nothing left just a song about a girl I used to know.

credits

released March 20, 2021
Guitar and Vocals - Pat Orchard
Keyboards / Production - Leandro Zilberberg.

Original photo by: Alexander Krivitskiy
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Pat Orchard England, UK

Newborn. Africa. Child. Rebelled.
Exmouth. School. Fool. Expelled.

Homeless. Drifter. Dole. Broke.
Guitar. Busker. Dreamer. Hope.

Support. Headline. MTV.
Touted. Guest list. VIP.

No Deal - Big Deal. Life's a Song.
My Voice. My Choice. Moving On.

Goodbye Smoke. Westward Bound.
Devon. Heaven. Ancient Ground.

Builder. Home. Catherine. Wife.
Fern. Dylan. Father. Life ... more

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