Tom Waits Black Market Baby

Listen to the full album: Black Market Baby by Tom Waits from the album Mule Variations 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