Black Tears

She puts on her work clothes, fishnet panty hose

She's got a nickname everybody knows at the gentlemen's club

She clocks in at midnight, even though it never feels right

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

Then she cries, black tears

Jealous of the innocent, sometimes she's convinced

The boss man is still a friend she needs

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 cryin', yeah she'd quit cryin'

Black tears