Lyrics to
Black Diamond

This version of Black Diamond was released by Kiss in 1974.

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Out on the street for a living
Picture’s only begun
Got you under their thumb
Hit it

Out on the streets for a living
Picture’s only begun
Your day is sorrow and madness
Got you under their thumb

Whoo, black diamond
Whoo, black diamond

Darkness will fall on the city
It seems to follow you too
And though you don’t ask for pity
There’s nothin’ that you can do, no, no

Whoo, black diamond
Whoo, black diamond

Out on the streets for a living
Picture’s only begun
Your day is sorrow and madness
Got you under their thumb

Whoo, black diamond, yeah
Whoo, black diamond

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About Lyrics and Black Diamond by Kiss

When you decide to study the lyrics to Black Diamond, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Kiss. Some of the lyrics to Black Diamond have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Kiss and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Black Diamond if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Black Diamond" means the words set to the music of Black Diamond, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kiss. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Black Diamond and the lyrics to Black Diamond are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kiss who came here looking just for the lyrics to Black Diamond, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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