[ti:Black Diamond Bay] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Desire] [offset:0] [00:01.41]Black Diamond Bay - Bob Dylan [00:48.53]Up on the white veranda [00:50.16] [00:50.91]She wears a necktie and a panama hat. [00:54.28] [00:58.47]Her passport shows a face [01:00.28]From another time and place [01:02.72]She looks nothin like that. [01:04.28] [01:08.40]And all the remnants of her recent past [01:12.34]Are scattered in the wild wind. [01:14.47] [01:15.47]She walks across the marble floor [01:17.84]Where a voice from the gambling room is callin her to come on in. [01:21.97] [01:22.47]She smiles, walks the other way [01:25.27] [01:27.45]As the last ship sails and the moon fades away [01:31.33] [01:32.58]From black diamond bay. [01:35.26] [01:38.08]As the mornin light breaks open, the greek comes down [01:41.32]And he asks for a rope and a pen that will write. [01:44.31] [01:47.68]Pardon, monsieur, the desk clerk says, [01:50.00] [01:50.81]Carefully removes his fez, [01:52.75]Am I hearin you right? [01:54.18] [01:57.68]And as the yellow fog is liftin [02:00.31]The greek is quickly headin for the second floor. [02:04.12] [02:05.31]She passes him on the spiral staircase [02:07.93]Thinkin hes the soviet ambassador, [02:11.63] [02:12.68]She starts to speak, but he walks away [02:15.48] [02:17.48]As the storm clouds rise and the palm branches sway [02:21.93] [02:22.74]On black diamond bay. [02:25.17] [02:28.04]A soldier sits beneath the fan [02:30.23]Doin business with a tiny man who sells him a ring. [02:34.23] [02:37.86]Lightning strikes, the lights blow out. [02:40.29]The desk clerk wakes and begins to shout, [02:42.48]Can you see anything? [02:44.09] [02:47.40]Then the greek appears on the second floor [02:49.97]In his bare feet with a rope around his neck, [02:54.28] [02:55.28]While a loser in the gambling room lights up a candle, [02:59.85]Says, open up another deck. [03:01.35] [03:02.54]But the dealer says, attendez-vous, sil vous plait, [03:05.29] [03:07.22]As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away [03:11.74] [03:12.30]From black diamond bay. [03:14.86] [03:17.55]The desk clerk heard the woman laugh [03:19.80]As he looked around the aftermath and the soldier got tough. [03:23.61] [03:27.24]He tried to grab the womans hand, [03:29.80]Said, heres a ring, it cost a grand. [03:32.05]She said, that aint enough. [03:33.55] [03:36.84]Then she ran upstairs to pack her bags [03:39.41]While a horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb. [03:43.60] [03:44.41]She passed the door that the greek had locked, [03:46.72]Where a handwritten sign read, do not disturb. [03:51.56]She knocked upon it anyway [03:54.32] [03:56.45]As the sun went down and the music did play [04:00.75] [04:01.45]On black diamond bay. [04:04.13] [04:07.07]Ive got to talk to someone quick! [04:09.25]But the greek said, go away, and he kicked the chair to the floor. [04:13.00] [04:16.88]He hung there from the chandelier. [04:19.06]She cried, help, theres danger near [04:21.31]Please open up the door! [04:22.81] [04:25.82]Then the volcano erupted [04:28.25]And the lava flowed down from the mountain high above. [04:32.90] [04:34.27]The soldier and the tiny man were crouched in the corner [04:38.34] [04:39.03]Thinking of forbidden love. [04:40.33] [04:41.15]But the desk clerk said, it happens every day, [04:43.90] [04:45.90]As the stars fell down and the fields burned away [04:50.15] [04:50.96]On black diamond bay. [04:53.65] [04:56.40]As the island slowly sank [04:58.59]The loser finally broke the bank in the gambling room. [05:02.45] [05:06.08]The dealer said, its too late now. [05:08.32]You can take your money, but I dont know how [05:10.76]Youll spend it in the tomb. [05:12.57] [05:15.76]The tiny man bit the soldiers ear [05:18.01]As the floor caved in and the boiler in the basement blew, [05:22.32] [05:23.38]While shes out on the balcony, where a stranger tells her, [05:27.77]My darling, je vous aime beaucoup. [05:30.37]She sheds a tear and then begins to pray [05:33.30] [05:35.31]As the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away [05:40.29]From black diamond bay. [05:42.79] [05:45.23]I was sittin home alone one night in l.a., [05:48.67]Watchin old cronkite on the seven oclock news. [05:51.66] [05:55.27]It seems there was an earthquake that [05:57.80]Left nothin but a panama hat [06:00.04]And a pair of old greek shoes. [06:02.35] [06:04.86]Didnt seem like much was happenin, [06:06.85]So I turned it off and went to grab another beer. [06:11.48] [06:12.36]Seems like every time you turn around [06:14.67]Theres another hard-luck story that youre gonna hear [06:18.72] [06:19.59]And theres really nothin anyone can say [06:22.86] [06:24.42]And I never did plan to go anyway [06:28.73] [06:29.54]To black diamond bay.