Black Tears

She puts on her work clothes

Fishnets and pantyhose

She’s got a nickname everybody knows

At the gentleman’s club

She clocks in at midnight

Even though it never feels right

She makes her money one dollar at a time

Without the makeup nobody knows her name

And she wears the pain

Black tears, rolling down

From the eyes of an angel in a sinner’s town

She reveals, and they all cheer

But then she cries black tears

Jealous of the innocence

But sometimes she’s convinced

The boss man is still a friend she needs

But she’s tried everything, cheap sex and cocaine

Anything to hide the pain for a little while

The wrong kind of famous in her momma’s eyes

You can tell she knows it when she cries

Black tears, rolling down

From the eyes of an angel in a sinner’s town

White lines off the mirror

Just won’t hide black tears

She tries and tries so hard to get away

But everybody’s watching

Black tears, rolling down

From the eyes of an angel in a sinner’s town

If all the pain would just disappear

She’d quit crying, yeah she’d quite crying black tears