[00:02.23]Diamonds are forever
[00:05.11]They won't leave in the night
[00:08.13]Have no fear that they might
[00:10.52]Desert me
[00:15.17]Chorus]
[00:15.44]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[00:18.18]Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
[00:20.01]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
[00:22.60]The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
[00:25.68]Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......
[00:34.55]Close your eyes and imagine, feel the magic
[00:37.20]Vegas on acid,
[00:38.54]Seen through Yves St. Laurent glasses
[00:40.13]And I've realized that I've arrived, cuz
[00:42.88]It take more than a magazine to kill my Vibe does
[00:45.43]he write his own rhymes, so sort of
[00:47.00]I think 'em
[00:47.79]That mean I forgot better **** than u ever thought up
[00:50.29]Damn, is he really that caught up?
[00:52.05]I ask if you talkin' bout classics, do my name get brought up?
[00:54.56]I remember I couldn't afford a Ford Escort or even a four-track recorder
[00:59.88]so its only right that I let the top drop on a drop-top Porsche
[01:04.06]- its for yourself that's important
[01:05.22]If a stripper named Porscha and u get tips from many men
[01:07.87]Then your fat friend her nickname is Minivan
[01:09.76]Excuse me,
[01:11.28]That's just the Henny, man, I smoke, I drink, I'm supposed to stop I can't because
[01:14.46]Chorus]
[01:15.26]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[01:17.51]Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
[01:19.88]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
[01:22.27]The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
[01:24.57]Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......
[01:34.13]I was sick about awards
[01:35.23]Couldn't nobody cure me
[01:36.19]Only playa that got robbed but kept all his jewelry
[01:39.56]Alicia Keys tried to talk some sense to them
[01:41.67]30 minutes later seems there's no convincing them
[01:43.95]What more can you ask for?
[01:45.54]The international assholes nah
[01:47.20]Who complains about what he is owed?
[01:49.16]And throw a tantrum like he is 3 years old
[01:51.70]You gotta love it though somebody still speaks from his soul
[01:54.20]And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame,
[01:57.21]When he came, in the game, he made his own lane
[01:59.36]Now all I need is y'all to pronounce my name
[02:01.67]Its Kanye - But some of my plaques - they still say Kane
[02:03.88]Got family in the D, Kin-folk from Motown
[02:06.89]Back in the Chi - them folks ain't from Motown
[02:09.38]Life movin' too fast I need to slow down
[02:11.71]Girl ain't give me no ass, ya need to go down
[02:14.21]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[02:15.20]My father Ben said I need Jesus
[02:16.45]So he took me to church and let the water wash over my ceaser
[02:18.86]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[02:19.54]The preacher said we need leaders
[02:20.78]Right then my body got still like a paraplegic
[02:23.89]You know who you can call you gotta best believe it
[02:26.50]The Roc stand tall and you would never believe it
[02:28.99]Take your diamonds and throw 'em up like you bulimic
[02:31.21]Yea the beat cold but the flow is anemic
[02:34.09]After debris settles and the dust get swept off
[02:36.55]Big K pick up where young Hov left off
[02:39.13]Right when magazines wrote Kanye West off
[02:41.53]I dropped my new **** sound like the best of
[02:43.99]A&R's lookin' like "pssh we messed up"
[02:46.28]Grammy night, damn right, we got dressed up
[02:48.74]Bottle after bottle till we got messed up
[02:51.27]In the studio, where really though, yea he next up
[02:53.74]People askin' me if I'm gon' give my chain back
[02:56.25]That'll be the same day I give the game back
[02:58.76]You know the next question dog "Yo, where Dame at?"
[03:01.18]This track the Indian dance to bring our reign back
[03:03.74]"What's up with you and Jay, man, are y'all ok man?"
[03:05.29]They pray for the death of our dynasty like Amen
[03:08.82]R-r-r-right here stands a-man
[03:10.55]With the power to make a diamond with his bare hands...
[03:12.71]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[03:15.87]Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
[03:18.53]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
[03:20.69]The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
[03:23.38]Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......
[03:31.91]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[03:37.79]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)