For millions of years You were alone Under the river Just like any stone They found you and cut you Until you shone Koh-I-Noor Called you mountain of light And wanted you so To wear in their crowns On their peacock thrones And brother killed brother So they could own Koh-I-Noor They took you away And you never went home In a palace of glass For the world you were shown They made you more brilliant Than you'd ever known Koh-I-Noor Now all those that held you They are all gone The way of our flesh Each every one And now in the darkness Just like any stone Koh-I-Noor