Moon Safari - Diamonds lyrics

My uncle on my father's side's a farmer He is old now but smiles just the same Spent his life working way over yonder In the fields among the rocks and the clay He says: ”Tell me what more is a diamond, son Than a stone in the blind man's hand If you'd see what I see then you too Could be king with a kingdom in hand” Now I can't help but think that there's a truth there Something missing in this modern trance Maybe to live and work the land of your fathers Is the offering our sanity demands People chase the end of the rainbow Because they heard there's the end of their tales I just wanna be walking up the old dirtroad Pa**ed the birchtrees I'll see my uncle wave, singing: ”Tell me what more is a diamond, son Than a stone in the blind man's hand People run, running round round in circles until their Diamonds get lost in the sand” Oh, how I wish I'd be like him Free from a world that's speeding ”Don't play their game, boy, can't you see The more you get the less you dream Don't put your faith in faithless lies The cheering warmth of summer never dies The cheering warmth of summer holds the instruments of life” I don't know if this is really true or not But a friend told me Syd Barrett said That the only way to be free is to lie still in your bed Then there's no end to the possibilities So tell me what more is a Diamond Than a stone in the blind man's hand Our life's need to be cut into pieces So we can live every possible end ”Don't play their game, boy, can't you see The more you get the less you dream Don't put your faith in faithless lies The cheering warmth of summer never dies The cheering warmth of summer holds the instruments of life”