You wanna be the river But you’re frightened of the sea So you dredge up little stones From the bottom of the creek You stuff them in your pockets And dive into the deep Now you are the river for all eternity You wanna be a diamond So pure and rare So you polish all your edges Until they glare You catalog the contents Of your heart and sell them off Now you are a diamond But a diamond’s not enough

You wanna leave the earth And float upon the sky So you gather up dry wood With a plan to finally fly On a tinderbox to heaven If one match to you we’d lend And say you’ll pay us back in ashes We can scatter on the wind We all wanna be diamonds so pure and rare We polish all our edges Until they glare We catalog the contents Of our hearts and sell them off Now we’re all diamonds But it’s never enough