Diamond Smiles

Traffic's wild tonight

Diamond smiles her cocktail smile

Tonight she's in heavy disguise

She looks at her wrist to clock the passing time

Weather's mild tonight

She wonders will they notice her eyes

She wonders will her glamour survive

And can they see she's going down a third time

Everybody tries

It's Dale Carnegie gone wild

But Barbara Cartland's child

Long ago perfected the motionless glide

In the low voltage noise

Diamond seems so sure and so poised

She shimmers for the bright young boys

And says, "Love is for others, but me it destroys"

The girl in the cake

Jumped out too soon by mistake

Somebody said the whole thing's half baked

And Diamond lifts her glass and says, "Cheers"

She stands to the side

There's no more to this than meets the eye

Everybody drinks Martini dry

And talks about clothes and the latest styles

They said she did it

With grace, they said she did it

With style, they said she did it all

Oh, they said

Before she died

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

I remember Diamond smiles

Nobody saw her go

They said they should have noticed

'Cause her dress was cut so low

Well, it only goes to show

Ha, ha, how many real men any of us know

She went up the stairs

Stood up on the vanity chair

Tied her lame belt around the chandelier

And went out kicking at the perfumed air

Oh, oh

They said she did it

With grace, they said she did it

With style, they said she did it all

They said

Before she died

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

I remember Diamond smiles