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Black Diamond Face: The Stories They Don’t Tell

Experience the raw emotional truth of "Black Diamond Face" by Adam Ward—a haunting reflection on the cost of chasing shadows in a world of neon lies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SONG OVERVIEW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "Black Diamond Face" is a profound exercise in narrative juxtaposition, contrasting the organic serenity of the natural world with the sterile, predatory artifice of modern materialism. From a musicological perspective, the composition functions as a modern folk-parable, utilizing a grounded, Americana-inflected narrative arc to explore the psychological erosion of the self. The "Black Diamond" serves as a potent psychoacoustic metaphor: a symbol of extreme pressure that yields a cold, hard brilliance—a beauty that is aesthetically captivating but spiritually hollow. The song navigates the cognitive dissonance of the American Dream, examining how the pursuit of external validation leads to a "poisoned laced embrace," ultimately suggesting that authentic human resonance is found not in the "high-fashion" facade, but in the tactile, unvarnished reality of the earth. ############################### 🎵 LYRICS — “Black Diamond Face” ############################### [Verse 1] I was watchin' the news from my porch swing, listenin' to the crickets sing, By the bend in the Suwannee, where the water runs slow and clean. They flashed a shot of Hollywood, looked more like Sodom and Gomorrah would, All those empty-eyed kids chasin' a dream that ain't ever been any good. Saw a headline 'bout a black suit gala, hostin' the creeps hoarding dollars, Where they earn in one night what I sweat for five years, just to afford my collars. [Chorus] The pressure with the diamonds, yeah, they look so shiny and grand, But they're a cheap trick used by the master of lies, to take a soul from your hand. They were pourin' out the vices and ignorin' all the signs, 'Til the limo door cracked open and the Devil himself walked inside. He didn't come with horns and fire, he wore a smile on a Black Diamond face, And every lost lamb in that ballroom just took another poisoned laced embrace. [Verse 2] I remember sweet Cindy from Tulsa. Had a voice that could crack a stone, Came to town chasin' glory, now she's starin' at her reflection in her smart phone. They promised her the spotlight, said "Just sign on the dotted line," Traded her honesty for a high-fashion dress, lookin' sharp, feelin' fine. But the glamor is a hungry beast, it feeds on her truth and light, Now she's laughin' too loud and lookin' over her shoulder, lost in the endless night. She never saw it comin', how a handshake could sell her soul, Just thought she was climbin' a ladder, now she's fallin' down and looking old. [Bridge] You wanna know what's rich? It ain't a yacht or a golden chain. It's the smell of dew on my 23 acres after a blessed summer rain. It's the sight of an eagle on a cypress limb, the peace that money can't buy, It's the simple, good gifts the good Lord provides, beneath that natural sky. You think your mansion's safe, but the foundation's built on a lie, I got more truth in a worn-out guitar than all the jewels you'll try to buy! [Chorus] The pressure and the diamonds, yeah, they look so shiny and grand, But they're a cheap trick used by the master of lies, to take a soul from your hand. They were pourin' out the desire and ignorin' all the signs, 'Til the limo door cracked open and the Devil himself walked inside. He didn't come with horns and fire, he wore a smile and a Black Diamond face, And every lost lamb in that ballroom just took another poisoned laced embrace. [Outro] I’ve shook the wrong hands, chased a shine that lied, But peace don’t come in diamonds it lives where the river’s wide. If the Devil wears a smile, he won’t find me tonight, I’ll lay my sins in these strings and walk home by the light. ########################### 🎼 CREDITS Lyrics, Musical Composition, & Video Production all Written & Composed by: © Adam Ward – All Rights Reserved ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 HELP ADAM AT NO COST TO YOU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you can't think of a comment just put in my comment section 'I read the descriptions'. It will help me more than you realize because for some reason I get very little comments.♡♡♡ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💛 SUPPORT THE MUSIC ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Adam’s YouTube channel is not monetized. Support comes only from community donations and album sales. Gratitude and inspiration are emphasized, never pressure. https://buymeacoffee.com/dreamingadam... buymeacoffee.com/DreamingAdamProductions Albums currently available: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ada...