Poetry From a Past Life - Part 4
This single event left permanent markings on my mind. I felt the need to pen these lyrics shortly after the tragic accident took place. I also used this happening as a basis for my short story, Jack and Diane - The Rest of the Story.
You can read the background of the story on my hub, Blood on the Diamond, here at Hubpages. You may want to check out that hub before reading the lyrics below. I believe it will all make sense then. Please use the links below.
- Jack and Diane--The Rest of the Story
In the early 1980's John Mellencamp recorded a song entitled Jack and Diane. The lyrics told a tale of typical teenage behavior in America at the time. The teenage love affair came up empty however, as Mellencamp moaned, "Oh yeah, Life goes
- Blood on the Diamond
Is suicide the solution? Please don't do anything until you've read this. I'm reaching out to you.
Took his last ride
out Woodland Drive -
60 in a 25 zone.
He had to find some peace,
His pie in the sky -
A place he could call home.
So I took a walk
Up the Millionaire Hill.
Then I stood there all alone.
There was blood on the diamond,
Blood on the sand.
G. B. had found home.
There was blood on the diamond,
Blood on the sand.
She wouldn't listen to him.
She wouldn't understand.
Saw him in town
Just the other night.
Said everything was fine.
It couldn't be better.
He just wrote her a letter.
Maybe she had changed her mind.
Today the guardrails gave.
They couldn't hold to save
A suicidal teenage boy
Who had so much to give
With no will to live.
So he burned his last toy.
There was blood on the diamond,
Blood on the sand.
She wouldn't listen to him.
She wouldn't hold his hand until
There was blood on the diamond
Blood on the sand.
She came to be near him.
She couldn't understand.