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Composer: Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan

Tom Waits - Black Market Baby lyrics



She lives in a house
That's way back off the road
There's a man with a lantern
And he carries her soul
A coal stove and a bed
A skillet and a hound
She drove a camel through
A needle
In this sinking board walk town

She's my Black Market Baby
She's my Black Market Baby
She's a diamond that
Wants to stay coal
Wants to stay coal

I swang out wide with her
On hells iron gate
Anything that you wanted
You could have
My eyes say their prayers to her
Sailors ring her bell
Like a moth mistakes a light bulb
For the moon and goes to hell

She's my Black Market Baby
She's my Black Market Baby
She's a diamond that
Wants to stay coal
Wants to stay coal

There's no prayer like desire
There's amnesia in her kiss
She's a swan and a pistol
And she will follow you like this
In Moverly, Missouri at the
Iroquois Hotel
She checked in with the President
And she ran up quite a Bill
(Chorus)
She's whiskey in a teacup
She gives blondes a lousy name
She's a Bonzai Aphrodite
And a ticket back to Spain
She's a hard way to go
And there ain't no way
To stop
Every time you play the red
The black is coming up

She's my Black Market baby
She's my Black Market baby
She's a diamond that
Wants to stay coal
Wants to stay coal
Songs list of album: Mule Variations (1999)
         Title Rating
01    Big in Japan lyrics Add lyrics   -
02    Low Side of the Road lyrics Add lyrics   -
03   Hold On lyrics   -
04    Get Behind the Mule lyrics Add lyrics   -
05   House Where Nobody Lives lyrics   -
06   Cold Water lyrics   -
07   Pony lyrics   -
08    What's He Building? lyrics Add lyrics   -
09   Black Market Baby lyrics   -
10   Eyeball Kid lyrics   -
11    Picture in a Frame lyrics Add lyrics   -
12   Chocolate Jesus lyrics   -
13   Georgia Lee lyrics   -
14   Filipino Box Spring Hog lyrics   -
15   Take It With Me lyrics   -
16    Come on Up to the House lyrics Add lyrics   -
 

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