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

Well I swang out wide with her

On the hell's iron gate

Everything that you wanted

You could have

My eyes say their prayers to her

Sailors ring her bell

She's just 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

And 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

• Artist:Tom Waits