What is diamonds and rust about

The song narrates her feelings and memories as Dylan calls her about ten years after the events later sung about occurred.

The song has a much more bittersweet undertone once I listen to it again with that knowledge. It is beautiful. It gives off the feeling of floating away and letting the past be over.

Something very nostalgic comes from this song. Her voice is enough to make anything about ten million times more meaningful and emotional. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only. What does Diamonds and Rust mean? Login Create Account. Joan Baez : Diamonds and Rust Meaning.

Tagged: No tags, suggest one. I'll be damned, here comes your ghost again But that's not unusual It's just that the moon is full And you decided to call And here I sit, hand on the telephone Hearing the voice I'd known A couple of light years ago Headed straight for This interpretation has been marked as poor. Submit Your Interpretation. Your phone number:. Song name. Your interpretation. Email me when new interpretations are posted for Diamonds and Rust. Your email address. Joan Baez Song Meanings.

Get a weekly email update We won't give out your email. Never Look Back Warren Zeiders. And given that he thought her poetry was lousy I think she more than makes up for it with these lyrics. I put these lyrics in my top ten because of the raw sadness and pain that they are able to drudge up but also because it's that raw truth that comes through and her strength to say no to being in that position again. I've already paid. BostonSamuel on September 11, Link.

General Comment I don't think Diamonds and Rust reveals 'tears and then dried. And 'rust'.. Joan sings 'I've already paid'.. There is another song that Joan sings for Bob..

Bob and Joan were together romantically for such a short time - after the breakup with Suze - and just before his relationship with his future wife, Sarah. ShannyH on May 09, Link. Still, could "memories bring diamonds and rust" refer to ancient or rather 10 years old mementos like cufflinks or half-shell turned to diamonds in rust rims?

She is saying that she was, or would have been, both mother Madonna and lover Venus to him. I think. General Comment I adore this song. Her talent is a real blessing vilenin on March 11, Link. General Comment "What really is the core issue is: Did Bob really love Joan or was she just a 'deviation' for him when he broke up with Suze. In "No Direction Home", when he's talking about her and how careless he was with her, Dylan says "It's hard to be wise and in love at the same time.

General Comment "hearing a voice I'd known a couple of light years ago Heading straight for a fall" Considering the song was written in , it is my reading of it, that Bob rang her up one day looking for sympathy when he realised his marriage to Sara Lownds was on the rocks.

According to a Wikipedia entry "Their marriage first became strained around April when he began taking art classes from Norman Raeben, a year-old Russian immigrant Raeban's teaching methods radically changed the musician's way of thinking, and he would later tell an interviewer, "I went home after that first day and my wife never did understand me ever since that day.

That's when our marriage started breaking up.