Diamond In The Rough - Alicia Bridges

You’ve heard the way people talk about me

Do you like the things they say

Or do you find it disconcerting and unkind

It’s a joke I’ve learned to live with

Being different from the crowd

They’d like to polish me up

Give me a trim, water me down, make me be like them

But I’m a diamond in the rough

A diamond in the rough

Taking my time

Deciding when to shine

Diamond in the rough

Diamond in the rough

Diamond in the rough

Diamond in the rough

I had hoped that you would love me

Since I could fall in love with you

Could we find our place in each other somewhere tonight

Oh, I hope so

Or has the talk decayed the beauty

That we once began to find

Would you like to polish me up

Give me a trim, water me down, make me be like them

I’m still a diamond in the rough

A diamond in the rough

Taking my time, deciding when to shine

Diamond in the rough

Diamond in the rough

Diamond in the rough, diamond in the rough