Dwight Yoakam - If Teardrops Were Diamonds lyrics

If teardrops were diamonds

And only mine were used

They could pave every highway

Coast to coast

And not be close to through

If teardrops were diamonds

Cold blue.

If heartaches were rubies

Stacked up just like stones

There would be a mountain

Ten miles high

Built by mine alone

If heartaches were rubies

Mine alone.

You might begin to understand

The price that love has to pay

For being wrong

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If sad thoughts were emeralds

And with not counting

In between

Just half the ones

I've had today

Could turn

The whole world green

If sad thoughts were emeralds

And the world turned green

You might just

Get the message that

There's more to loneliness

Than can be seen

If teardrops were diamonds

And only mine were used...