Rough Diamond
[Verse]
It looked like a piece of molten glass
Thats someone had abandoned
Until cuts revealed surfaces
That light could dance on…
[Interlude
[Verse]
The field removed all obstacles
That blocked the prisms rays
It polished every roughened edge
Brought the light back into phase
I didn’t have to invent any colours
Or command them where to go
My only job?
To become clear enough…
To let the spectrum show
[Pre-Chorus]
Each facet changed the angle
Light refraction shaped the view
The cuts were not destructive
They were shaping something new
[Chorus]
A world of rough diamonds
Waiting to be cut
Waiting to be polished
Waiting for light to shine
And darkness to be abolished
Our latent potential’s
buried deep inside
You gotta cut the surface
many many times
to make a rough diamond…
shine,
shine
shine
[Interlude]
. [Verse]
The spectrum moves around me
Like a mist of coloured dew
Every colour held together
By a power I never knew
A prism does not own the light
Or choose the colours shown
It simply holds a faithful angle
To a source it cannot own
[Pre-Chorus]
Each facet changed the angle
Light refraction shaped the view
The cuts were not destructive
They were shaping something new
[Chorus]
A world of rough diamonds
Waiting to be cut
Waiting to be polished
Waiting for light to shine
And darkness to be abolished
Our latent potential’s
buried deep inside
You gotta cut the surface
many many times
to make a rough diamond…
shine,
shine
shine.
[Outro]