Hidden Jewel

There's more to love than loving
There's more to pain than pain
And if diamonds take a million years
We must learn to understand the same strain

Wanting what's new means one thing
Asking what's old to die
And what's true before we move to grow
Passes over in a moment of sighing

I knew a girl, she refused to come out fighting
She could have moved the planets with her hand
Like counting grains of sand
Dig her daily shuffle on down the street on slovenly feet
Dig the love within her waiting
With an undiscovered purpose

You couldn't help but think about her as a missing person
Someone important had caused her heart to fear
So, she withered, like a raisin in the sun
Needing will, needing vision, needing hope and not doubt
Needing shelter from a loveless existence

She'd mustered all her little courage just to face the day
It was rainy and gray
And we all could see her, trying to free her
Looking out to find the person who had taken innocence
And blessedness and carried them away
Who'd given all of it away to those who couldn't see her beauty
And Prince Charming never came

And, if he had, she'd have spit into his eye
And left him wondering why anyway
Charming princes never carry half as much as they can carry off
I see it every day, taba-daba-doo-dow

Pretty soon she drove us all away
For her there could be no other way

There's more to love than loving
There's more to pain than pain
And if diamonds take a million years
We must learn to understand the same strain

There's more to love than loving