Diamonds are forever   They won't leave in the night   Have no fear that they might   Desert me      Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)   Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe   Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)   The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.   Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?……      Close your eyes and imagine, feel the magic   Vegas on acid,   Seen through these St. Laurent glasses   And I've realized that I've arrived, 'cause   It take more than a magazine to kill my Vibe does   These writers don't rhyme, so sort of   I thank 'em   That mean I forgot better @#%$ than u ever thought up   Damn, is he really that caught up?   I ask if you talkin' bout glasses, do my name get brought up?   I remember I couldn't afford a Ford Escort, or even a 4 track recorder   so its only right that I let the top drop on a drop-top Porsche   - its for yourself that's important   If a stripper named Porscha and u get tips from many men   Then your fat friend her nickname is minivan   Excuse me,   That's just the Henny, man, I smoke, I drink, I'm supposed to stop I cant because      Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)   Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe   Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)   The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.   Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?……      I was sick about awards   Couldn't nobody cure me   Only playa that got robbed but kept all his jewelry   Alicia Keys tried to talk some sense to them   30 minutes later seems there's no convincing them   What more can you ask for?   The international awards? nah   Who complains about when he is old?   And throw a tantrum like he's 3 years old   You gotta love it though somebody still speaks from his soul   And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name   Now all I need is y'all to pronounce my name   Its Kanye - But some of my plaques - they still say Kane   Got family and a deacon, folk from Motown   Back in the Chi - them folks ain't from Motown   Life movin' too fast I need to slow down   Girl ain't give me no ass, ya need to go down   Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)   My father Ben said I need Jesus   So he took me to church and let the water wash over my season   Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)   The preacher said we need leaders   Right then my body got still like a paraplegic      You know who you can call you gotta best believe it   The Roc stand tall and you would never believe it   Take your diamonds and throw 'em up like you bulimic   Yea the beat cold but the flow is anemic      After debris settles and the dust get swept off   Big K pick up where young Hov left off   Right when magazines wrote Kanye West off   I dropped my new @#%$ sound like the best of   A&R's lookin' like “pssh we messed up”   Grammy night, damn right, we got dressed up   Bottle after bottle till we got messed up   In the studio, where really though, yea he next up   People askin' me if I'm gon' give my chain back   That'll be the day I give the game back   You know the next question dog “Yo, where Dame at?”   This track the Indian dance to bring our reign back   “What's up with you and Jay, man, are y'all ok man?”   They pray for the death of our dynasty like Amen   R-r-r-right here stands a-man   With the power to make a diamond with his bare hands…      Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)   Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe   Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)   The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.   Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?……      Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)   Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)