Diamonds, roses

I need Moses

To cross this sea of loneliness

Part this Red River of pain

I don't necessarily buy

Any key to the future or happiness

But I need a little place in the sun

Sometimes or I think I will die

And everywhere is somewhere and nowhere is near

Everybody got somebody with their wine and their beer

So I'm just this tragic figure in the corner over here

With an empty apartment and a best friend who is a queer

And every time I see him he smiles

And he tells me how well he's walking these miles

But he never ever asks a single thing about me

If I die he'd hear about it eventually

Diamonds, roses

I need Moses

To cross this sea of loneliness

Part this Red River of pain, oh, oh, oh

And everywhere is somewhere and nowhere is near

Everybody got somebody with their wine and their beer

So I'm just this tragic figure in the corner over here

Go home to an empty apartment and call a best friend who is a queer

Diamonds, roses

I need Moses

To cross this sea of loneliness

Part this Red River of pain

To cross this sea of loneliness

Part this Red River of pain

To cross this sea of loneliness

Part this Red River of pain

Of pain

Whoa-oh, whoa-oh