Common - Diamonds lyrics

rate me

Hook:

Oh, oh, oh

Walk up in the thing, got my campaign popping

Champagne popping, bad thing popping.

Headed to the door and ain’t a damn thing knocking, no!

Walk up in the thing and everybody with me mobbing

Campaign popping, champagne popping.

I wrote this on my born day, it was a warm day

Niggas gotta eat, we gonna do it gourmet.

I’m hearing fucking voices, like when porn play

Stay, stay on your grind like foreplay.

What more can I say? Diamonds off for the day

That means to shine, you find a way

Stayed on porches, backyards, and gangways

Learned strange ways between Cole and Langley

Champagne ambitions, I pour it out for my man who made his transition

Wars about paper, pussy, pride and ego

Born to fly, call me the bald eagle.

Open shows at the Regal for Daddy Kane and Eazy-E, though

Boys in the hood is hard like kilos of heroin.

The hero that came from zero

My bars and my PR like Puerto Rico

This bra from the DR said I was frío

That’s Ice Cold like Drake, triple three yo

Pinot noir style, better with time

I’m gambling with watches getting better with time.

So I’mma ride this out for long as God allow me

They say “time is money,” forever is my salary

I shine tomorrow with what I do today

Yo, get this money, put the diamonds on display!

Hook :

Oh, oh, oh

Walk up in the thing and got my campaign popping

Champagne popping, bad thing popping

Headed to the door, and ain’t a damn thing knocking (no)

Walk up in the thing and everybody with me mobbing

Campaign popping, champagne popping

Hit you with the street sweeper now you gotta get to mopping , no!

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Tryna get it every way, every day

Tryna get it every way, every day

Tryna get it every way, every day

Bars in alignment, stars in alignment

Raw off consignment, God’s in the diamonds

Evolve from the science, power and refinement

Read between the lines, hard to define us.

Niggas that’s behind us throwing up signs to signify us

In the Benz leaning like we biased.

I’ve seen Len Bias, that shit scared me

You can go pro and blow everything you have in a flash

The moment is to live it like your last

Moments that we have never living in the last

My time, man, precious like diamonds

Look through the glass, see what I magnify, man!

I'mma be shining till I die man

I’m a rare diamond that’s hard to find, man!

Climbing to the mountain top, MLK day

To the streets I speak my piece like an A.K

47 to 87 to the hundreds

Jewels I could run it for the hunted and the blunted

Dreams reflect clarity, ain’t no disparity

Between peace and prosperity, so marry me, Diamond!

Reminiscing when I had everything on layaway

I’m rolling with me and my partner like it was training day

Way before the baling that was back off in the training days

I used to hit the barber chair and say “I need that fade away”

Had a crush on what’s her name?

The feelings never fade away!

Older brother gang bang, banging like an 808

Said you can’t take his chain away

Real player you can’t take this game away

Slang away, walk up in this thing like a real Rockefeller, feller!

But you can’t take my dame away,

Devil in a red dress, but she got that angel face

I could teach her how to get it day to day to day to day

The G code is my combination

Catch me off in the bank thumbing through all kinds of faces

Catch me off in court, beating all kinds of cases

Weed, money, pussy, liquor, that’s my favorite compilation

Diamonds!

Diamonds!