Marina Diamandis

Released: March 13, 2015

Songwriter: MARINA

Producer: David Kosten MARINA

[Verse 1]
You've got it in the palm of your hands (In your hands)
It’s slipping through your fingers like sand (Like sand)
'Cause they don't understand who you are (Who you are)
Doesn't matter long as I am your star, star

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Yeah, I know that I need the gold
But what I love can’t be bought or sold

[Chorus 1]
Don’t think I want what I used to want
Don’t think I need what I used to need
Don’t think I want what I used to want
Don’t think I see what I used to see

[Verse 2]
I've been waiting, waiting for the penny to drop
(To drop, to drop, to drop)
I've been working, working, working to get back what I lost, I lost
(I lost, I lost)
But whatever happens, I'll be okay (I'll be okay)
'Cause fortune’s running out of my veins, my veins (Uh-huh)

[Pre-Chorus 2]
You can’t take away the Midas touch
So you better make way for a Greek gold rush

[Chorus 1]
Don’t think I want what I used to want
Don’t think I need what I used to need
Don’t think I want what I used to want
Don’t think I see what I used to see

[Post-Chorus]
In El Dorado, your gold
To Colorado, can't be bought or sold

[Bridge]
Now there’s no moral to this story
But I can hear my freedom calling me, calling me

[Chorus 2]
I don't care that everybody knows
I'm a million dollars in the hole
I don't care that everybody knows
Baby, I don't even want your gold

[Post-Chorus]
From El Dorado, your gold
To Colorado, can't be bought or sold

[Outro]
(Gold) rush
(Gold) rush
Free, free, free, free
Free, free
Free, I am free

Marina Lambrini Diamandis, better known as MARINA (formerly Marina and the Diamonds), is a Welsh singer-songwriter and musician.

Growing up in Wales, England and Greece, Marina became “obsessed with becoming a singer, almost as if it was a disease.” After moving to London, it took four years before she established herself as a singer-songwriter. After several independently-released EPs, she placed second on the BBC Sound of 2010 list. In 2010, her debut album, The Family Jewels, was released to critical acclaim and chart success, eventually being certified Gold in the UK.

Her 2012 sophomore album, Electra Heart, was a concept album in which she embraced the titular persona—a vapid, blonde “straight-up pop star” who arose out of her label’s demands for a more commercial pop sound and Marina’s desire to maintain artistic integrity. It became her most successful album, debuting atop the UK, Scotland and Ireland album charts.

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