Some Days Are Diamond
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The title "Some Days Are Diamond" refers to both the album and the title song on that album, released in 1981, by singer John Denver.[1] The album was released on the RCA Victor label.[1]
[edit] Partial lyrics
The song lyrics are under copyright from 1981; however, some excerpts can be explained in technical analysis, under the 1961 fair-use citation of the US Copyright Act (title 17, U. S. Code). [2]
Below are partial lyrics[3] from the song Some Days Are Diamond, noting the particular choice of words, such as the contrast between days as "diamond" versus "stone":
| Some days are diamond, some days are stone, | (diamond v. stone) | ||
| Sometimes the hard times won't leave me alone, | (by hard times) | ||
| Sometimes a cold wind blows a chill in my bones, | (with cold wind) | ||
| Some days are.... | |||
| [ remainder omitted due to copyright ] |
Note that even though the first line mentions a contrast of diamond and stone, the chorus lyrics remain melancholy, with phrases such as "hard times" and "cold wind" noted.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b "Audio Album: Some Days Are Diamond" (fact sheet), Secondhand Songs, 2006, webpage: SHSongs.
- ^ "U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use" (legal notes), cites US Copyright Act (title 17, U. S. Code), Section 107, U.S. Copyright Office, webpage: CRgov-f1102. The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples for fair-use excerpts: "quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations."
- ^ Per the US Copyright Act (title 17, U. S. Code), Section 107, the fair-use excerpts must not constitute a "performable unit" of the song, so words have been omitted in places.
