Diamonds

We're all diamonds in the rough, right?  Some of us are just waiting to shine, some of us are a little dull and in need of some buffing, from having been 'around' one too many times.  Some of us are a little rougher than others.  Others shine brightly, and seem to shine on others.

I'm not sure where I'm going with that.  I may have gotten off track a little bit.


Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty has the ability to make one of my best friends and I go weak in the knees.  So much of his music seems to speak to us.  One song in particular, Her Diamonds, seems to be our song.  He wrote it as a tribute to his wife, who suffers from a painful autoimmune disorder.  If Sharon or I hear it on the radio, we text the station to the other one so we can both hear it.  If we're listening to it from our own music library, we start texting the lyrics back and forth.

We "get" how the other one feels.  There are days we really don't think we can take anymore, days when we reach our breaking points.  We both are in quite a bit of physical (and emotional) pain, and this song is one way we connect, so we can let each other know that we are understood and loved.  We both strive to shine brightly--we want to shine brightly, but there are days we are dull and in need of buffing from all of our use and our pain.  There are days we just want to curl up in bed and be left alone, but even laying in bed hurts.  This is the world of physical and emotional pain.  Playing this song back and forth is how we shine on each other.

I thought I would include the link to the video, as well as include the lyrics.

"Her Diamonds"

Oh what the hell she said
I just can't win for losing
And she lays back down
Man there's so many times
I don't know what I'm doing
Like I don't know now

By the light of the moon
She rubs her eyes
Says it's funny how the night
Can make you blind
I can just imagine
And I don't know what I'm supposed to do
But if she feels bad then I do too
So I let her be

And she says oh
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cause I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried her best but now she can't win it
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down

She sits down and stares into the distance
And it takes all night
And I know I could break her concentration
But it don't feel right

By the light of the moon
She rubs her eyes
Sits down on the bed and starts to cry
And there's something less about her
And I don't know what I'm supposed to do
So I sit down and I cry too
And don't let her see

And she says oh
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cause I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried her best but now she can't win it
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down

She shuts out the night
Tries to close her eyes
If she can find daylight
She'll be alright
She'll be alright
Just not tonight

And she says oh
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cause I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried her best but now she can't win it
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCgfrjKcqs&ob=av2e