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 s 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
