A letra:
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
nothing 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 morning 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 hearing you right
And as the yellow fog is
lifting
The Greek is quickly heading for the second floor
She
passes him on the spiral staircase
Thinking he's 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
Doing
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, s'il 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 woman's hand
Said, here's a ring, it cost a grand
She
said, that ain't 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
I've 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, there's 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, it's
too late now
You can take your money, but I don't know how
You'll
spend it in the tomb
The tiny man bit the soldier's ear
As the
floor caved in and the boiler in the basement blew
While she's 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 sitting home alone one night in
L.A.
Watching old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news
It seems
there was an earthquake that
Left nothing but a Panama hat
And
a pair of old Greek shoes
Didn't seem like much was happening
So
I turned it off and went to grab another beer
Seems like every
time you turn around
There's another hard-luck story that you're
gonna hear
And there's really nothing anyone can say
And I
never did plan to go anyway
To Black Diamond Bay
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