The Twelve Days of Butter – Day 10

Here’s a special interview with the band about the writing music for HBR and the creative DNA of the band.

Today’s song is “Diamonds in the Wind,” a seldom-performed Yates gem.

Here’s what composer Erik Yates has to say about this one:

“This came to me more or less fully formed while driving home from a friend’s place on the coast. I was fairly hung-over. The two of us had gotten together at his little beach shack to write songs, but we’d spent most of our evening beering and howling at the moon. Turns out the evening was a success after all – he & I recorded this track a few months later with the Sleeping Giants and HBR recorded it not long after, with a different time signature.”

 

DIAMONDS IN THE WIND       Erik Yates

She spent the first half of her life

Waiting for something to happen

She spent the second half

Wishing it never had

By the time she walked away

Her hair had traded grey for red

But her eyes shined like diamonds

Her eyes shined like diamonds

Her eyes shined like diamonds in the wind

 

She said I ain’t goin’ back

To that house anymore

I have covered up my last black eye

I have slammed my last back door

That man can keep his bottle

And all the misery within

And her eyes shined like diamonds . . .

 

He spent the first half of the year

Waiting for her to come back

He spent the second half

Hoping she never would

He spent a long, cold November

Dreaming of the end

Of those eyes that shined like diamonds . . .

 

She said I haven’t felt this free

Since I was a girl

There’s nothing left for me to fear

In this God-forsaken world

Hunger tastes just like wine

And even’ dyin’ might be a friend

‘Cause I seen him, and his eyes shine like diamonds . . .

 

Two shots rang out

On the last day of December

Her last thirteen words hung

Bitter in the air

She said – I would not trade this year of freedom

For a thousand more with you

And she closed her eyes that shined like diamonds . . .

 

Yeah, her eyes shined like diamonds

Yeah, her eyes shined like diamonds

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