Where Diamonds Grow

Where Diamonds Grow
MySpace artwork (Unofficial cover art)
General Information
Title	Where Diamonds Grow
Recorded	2007-2008
Album	Mermaid vs. Sailor (Outtake) [speculated] The Family Jewels (Outtake)
Type	Unreleased
Length	3:44
Key + BPM	D Minor • 126
Credits
Artist	Marina and the Diamonds
Writer(s)	Marina Diamandis
Producer(s)	Marina Diamandis

Where Diamonds Grow is an unreleased song by Marina Diamandis, it may have been intended for her self-released EP, Mermaid vs. Sailor, and/or possibly one of the "35" home-demos considered for her debut studio album, The Family Jewels.

The song was written and produced by Marina alone.

Background

Where Diamonds Grow leaked on Tumblr on June 4, 2012, along with ten other home demos, and one 2010 cover of Perfect Stranger in a fan-made EP titled "Give Me the Money!", a line taken from Where Diamonds Grow.

Trivia

• Alternatively known as Give Me the Money. Speculated to be an alternate title of Diamond Garden.

Connections

• The theme of "Midas" links the song to:
  • Gold: "You can't take away the Midas' touch."
• Associating "fools" with "family jewels" links the song to:
  • Starlight: "You, oh, you had a sad urge, to be wanted by fools. Welcoming girls that would be, snoopin', troopin' enveloping your family jewels."
  • The Family Jewels: "Welcome to the family jewels, coal to diamond, sold to fools."

Official Versions

	Version	Released on	Date	Length
	Home Demo	N/A - Unreleased	Leaked: 04 Jun 2012	3:44

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I'm attracted to the city
Men all suited, sexy booted
Walkin' down the Liverpool Street
I be seein' magic mountains
Cash beginneth to rip a bigger
Hole inside the American dream

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Give me dollar, give me dollar
Queen 'Lizabeth stole my dough
Give me heads and give me tails and
Give me yen and give me gold

Give me diamonds and gold
Give me diamonds and gold
Dollar book and cash gold
Dollar book and cash gold
We want diamonds and dough (Dough, dough, ooh)

[Chorus 1]
Give me the money
Give me the money (Oh)
'Cause this is where the diamonds grow
Give me the money
Give me the money (Oh)
So that a dream world can be sown

[Verse 2]
I be dreamin' of lagoons and
Swimmin' pools of liquid jewels
'Cause I'm a sucker for things that be gleamin', yeah
Beware of women who come runnin'
They see bling bling, they think ka-ching
Family jewels from fools need protectin'

[Pre-Chorus 2]
They say "we want dollar, give me dollar
Give me queens and give me dough
We give head if you give tail, 'cause
We need yen and we need gold"

We want diamonds and gold
Give me diamonds and gold
Dollar book and cash gold
Dollar book and cash gold
We want diamonds and dough (Ooh)

[Chorus 1]
Give me the money
Give me the money (Oh)
'Cause this is where the diamonds grow
Give me the money
Give me the money (Oh)
So that a dream world can be sown

[Chorus 2]
Give me the money
Give me the money (Oh)
'Cause this is where the diamonds grow
Forget the Midas, I got the diamond touch
Diamonds are worth more than gold

Yeah (Yeah), oh-oh-oh
Yeah (Yeah), oh-oh-oh

[Outro]
You'd be kidding yourself
If you said that you didn't want it
And I'd be kidding myself
If I said I didn't think I'd be rich

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah-ah-ah
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah-ah-ah

References

• MvS
• TFJ