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Fake Diamonds, False Powers

from Thieves by Alex Dupree

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lyrics

Can’t think of a time when your love was true.
Can’t think of one kind word that you said.
But I got on a plane because you asked me to
with a suitcase full of contraband.

We met in Istanbul at Taksim square.
I thought the plan was suicide:
to shake down one of the billionaires
at a cafe in broad daylight.

But I put my jacket on, and I did my part.
Security was swift, and they slammed me to the car.
But your whereabouts, I kept them hidden in my heart.
Fake diamonds, false powers I gave you.

In prison, I did fifteen years,
always dreaming of my reward.
Then I worked a boat back to the gulf
where I heard that you had been holding court

in the Spanish moss and the neon haze.
From the pool you met my eyes,
and by the proposition in your gaze
it’s clear you don’t even recognize me.

And I remembered at once every promise I had kept
while you played you were king of the kingdom of death
in a palace you built out of nothing except
the fake diamonds, the false powers I gave you.

Like branches in a hurricane
that fall in disbelief,
I came inside and lay across your bed
filled with a terrible sense of relief.

And the moon flashed in my prison blade
as it found your heart of stone,
And the look you gave me was pure surprise
as we rolled out into the open,

And I knelt to put my weight against you where you bleed
as the rain goes on to make a mirror of the street.
And it’s weird, so many crowding at the hour of your defeat,
and not one of them gonna come down here and save you.
Fake diamonds, false powers I gave you.

credits

from Thieves, track released May 10, 2022
Alex Dupree: acoustic guitar, vocals
Max Knouse: electric guitar
Aaron Michael Stern: bass
Stephen Hodges: drums
Michael Krassner: piano
Matt Matherne: mandolin
Laraine Kaizer-Viazovstev: violins and string arrangement
Wally Boudway: percussion
Whitney Mower: additional vocals

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Alex Dupree Austin, Texas

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