They go out dancing, glitzy, fun, extravagent, but then end up completely broken down by 'sleeping in a doorway', but this build up to breakdown has created a new situation in the song "Wearing diamonds on the soles of THEIR shoes". Wearing diamonds on the soles of their shoes " This works too - he has to cover up and componsate when the two of them go out because he is not in love with her, and needs to put on an act or project the image that he is. changes clothes, puts on afteshave, to compensate for his ordinary shoes. The teaspoon and the wave are referances to opposites again, but of volume (in re: to water, teaspoon small, wave=ocean=large). The man who poor in love has taken advantage of his relationship with this women, becuase she loves him, will sacrifice for him, and he does not appreciate or reciprocate the feeling. The pocket and the cars keys, leading to 'youve taken me for granted/ because i please you/ wearing these diamonds'. Also note the term 'walking' blues - walking as an interaction medium, this means you have the blues with what you are interactiing with, in this case life. The feeling of being love can make you 'walking blue' go away, to give you a vibrancy to life that is hard to achieve otherwise. being in love makes you happier, the birds chirp, the shines. 'People say shes crazy/ she's got diamonds on the soles of her shoes/ well thats on way to lose these walking blues/ diamonds on the soles of your shoes.' now of course its easy to say that being right will get you through the 'walking blues', but also think of how it feels to be in love. he has nothing, saying he is empty as a pocket doesnt only imply that he is poor of material value, but that he is poor of spirit, of soul, of love. Everywhere you go, your interaction is done through the diamonds on your shoes, and diamonds as a symbol of wealth, happiness and love mean you are interacting with your world through a constant 'happy' filter, you have a skip to your step, you are happy.Ĭonstrast this with the poor boy who is emptry as a pocket. If one has diamonds as the filter to their environment, it is like saying you see the world with rose colored glasses. Everywhere we go, our feet are the part of us that have constant contact, that provide the most constant source of interaction with our physical envronment. To pick this apart, we physically interact with our world most frequently with our feet. ![]() The rich girl has diamonds on the soles of her shoes. He starts by identifying our two characters, the rich girl and the poor boy. And while simon uses this metaphor for wealth, he means wealth of love. As Sir Larrikin picked up on, this theme heavily influences the song. ![]() The diamond trade in S Africa created apartheide, setting up two of the most diametricaly opposed socio-economic classes in the modern world. He choses the perfect metaphore to describe the polar opposite positions of being in and out of love the diamond trade. talking about diamonds on the soles of her shoes." Who knows what diamonds on the soles of a person shoes means? Everybody knows love.Īs his entire Graceland albulm, this song is heavily influenced by the South African culture Simon observed while working there. "as if everybody knows what I'm talking about. This song is about what almost every song is about - Love. Wearing diamonds on the soles of their shoesĪlthough a valient effort by Sir Larrikin, I don't think people have looked deep enough here, or perhaps they are looking too deep. ![]() Talking about diamonds on the soles of her shoes She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes (A-wa) o kodwa you zo-nge li-sa namhlange
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