Well I'll be damned   Here comes your ghost again   But that's not unusual   It's just that the moon is full   And you happened to call      And here I sit   My hand on the telephone   Hearing a voice I'd known   A couple of light years ago   Heading straight for a fall      As I remember your eyes   Were bluer than robin's eggs   My poetry was lousy you said   Where are you calling from?   A booth in the midwest      Ten years ago   I bought you some cufflinks   Oh and you brought me something   We both know what memories can bring   They bring diamonds and rust      Well you burst on the scene   Already a legend   The unwashed phenomenon   The original vagabond   You strayed into my arms      And there you stayed   Temporarily lost at sea   The Madonna was yours for free   Yes the girl on the half-shell   Would keep you unharmed      Now I see you standing   With leaves falling around   And snow in your hair   Now you're smiling out the window   Of that hotel   Over Washington Square   Our breath comes out white clouds   Mingles and hangs in the air   Speaking strictly for me   We both could have died then and there      Now you're telling me   You're not nostalgic   Then give me another word for it   You are always so good with words   And at keeping things vague      Because I need some of that vagueness now   It's all coming back too clearly   Oh I loved you dearly   And if you're offering me diamonds and rust   I've already paid      Diamonds and rust   Diamonds and rust   Diamonds and rust