Diamond Girl
Seals and Crofts
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Diamond Girl - you sure do shine
Glad I found you - glad you're mine
Oh my love, you're like a precious stone
Part of Earth where heaven has rained on
Makes no difference where you are
Day or nighttime you're like a shinin' star
How could I shine without you?
When it's about you that I am
Diamond Girl - roamin' wild
Such a rare thing - radiant child
I could never find another one like you
Part of me is deep down inside you
Can't you feel the whole world a-turnin'?
We are real and we are a-burnin'
Diamond Girl now that I've found you
It's around you that I am
Diamond Girl - you sure do shine
Diamond Girl - you sure do shine
Diamond Girl - you sure do shine
Diamond Girl - you sure do shine
~~*~~
To survive my childhood, I swam.
I didn't know that's what I was doing.
It took decades for me to realize it.
I became, as one older swimmer put it,
"a machine."
I'd swim until I vomited.
The workout finished,
if I had energy afterward,
I'd often fly off into a rage
in the car on the way home,
or at home itself.
My mother, who was the one who often
picked me up, couldn't understand.
Neither could I.
It too would take decades to come to grips with
and understand fully.
This song--"Diamond Girl"--was an earworm for me,
but a very welcome one.
It would play in my head as I pushed myself harder
ever harder.
Its driving beat kept me moving.
I have cherished it ever since.
~~*~~
Digital art: Diamond Crash, by yours truly
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