Black Market Baby
Tom Waits
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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 boardwalk town She's my black-market baby (she's my baby) She's my black-market baby (she's my baby) She's a diamond who wants to stay coal Wants to stay coal I swang out wide with her On hell's iron gate Anything that you wanted You could have My eyes say their prayers to her Sailors ring her bell The way a moth mistakes a light bulb For the moon and goes to hell She's my black-market baby (she's my baby) She's my black-market baby (she's my baby) She's a diamond who 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 Moberly, Missouri At the Iroquois Hotel She checked in with the President And she ran up quite a Bill She's my black-market baby (she's my baby) She's my black-market baby (she's my baby) She's a diamond who wants to stay coal Wants to stay coal Well, 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 Everytime you play the red the black is coming up She's my black-market baby (she's my baby) She's my black-market baby (she's my baby) She's a diamond who wants to stay coal (she's my baby) She wants to stay coal (she's my baby) My baby wants to stay coal, coal, coal My baby wants to stay coal
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Written by: KATHLEEN BRENNAN, THOMAS ALAN WAITS
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