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Black Diamond Bay - Bob Dylan
Up on the white veranda

She wears a necktie and a panama hat.

Her passport shows a face
From another time and place
She looks nothin like that.

And all the remnants of her recent past
Are scattered in the wild wind.

She walks across the marble floor
Where a voice from the gambling room is callin her to come on in.

She smiles, walks the other way

As the last ship sails and the moon fades away

From black diamond bay.

As the mornin light breaks open, the greek comes down
And he asks for a rope and a pen that will write.

Pardon, monsieur, the desk clerk says,

Carefully removes his fez,
Am I hearin you right?

And as the yellow fog is liftin
The greek is quickly headin for the second floor.

She passes him on the spiral staircase
Thinkin hes the soviet ambassador,

She starts to speak, but he walks away

As the storm clouds rise and the palm branches sway

On black diamond bay.

A soldier sits beneath the fan
Doin business with a tiny man who sells him a ring.

Lightning strikes, the lights blow out.
The desk clerk wakes and begins to shout,
Can you see anything?

Then the greek appears on the second floor
In his bare feet with a rope around his neck,

While a loser in the gambling room lights up a candle,
Says, open up another deck.

But the dealer says, attendez-vous, sil vous plait,

As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away

From black diamond bay.

The desk clerk heard the woman laugh
As he looked around the aftermath and the soldier got tough.

He tried to grab the womans hand,
Said, heres a ring, it cost a grand.
She said, that aint enough.

Then she ran upstairs to pack her bags
While a horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb.

She passed the door that the greek had locked,
Where a handwritten sign read, do not disturb.
She knocked upon it anyway

As the sun went down and the music did play

On black diamond bay.

Ive got to talk to someone quick!
But the greek said, go away, and he kicked the chair to the floor.

He hung there from the chandelier.
She cried, help, theres danger near
Please open up the door!

Then the volcano erupted
And the lava flowed down from the mountain high above.

The soldier and the tiny man were crouched in the corner

Thinking of forbidden love.

But the desk clerk said, it happens every day,

As the stars fell down and the fields burned away

On black diamond bay.

As the island slowly sank
The loser finally broke the bank in the gambling room.

The dealer said, its too late now.
You can take your money, but I dont know how
Youll spend it in the tomb.

The tiny man bit the soldiers ear
As the floor caved in and the boiler in the basement blew,

While shes out on the balcony, where a stranger tells her,
My darling, je vous aime beaucoup.
She sheds a tear and then begins to pray

As the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away
From black diamond bay.

I was sittin home alone one night in l.a.,
Watchin old cronkite on the seven oclock news.

It seems there was an earthquake that
Left nothin but a panama hat
And a pair of old greek shoes.

Didnt seem like much was happenin,
So I turned it off and went to grab another beer.

Seems like every time you turn around
Theres another hard-luck story that youre gonna hear

And theres really nothin anyone can say

And I never did plan to go anyway

To black diamond bay.