She puts on her work clothes
Fishnet pantyhose
She's got a nickname everybody knows
At the gentleman'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 rollin' down
From the eyes of an angel in a sinner's town
She reveals, they all cheer
Then she cries black tears
Jealous of the innocent
Well, sometimes she's convinced
The boss man is still a friend she needs
She's tried everything
Cheap sex and cocaine
Anything to hide the pain for a little while
Wrong kind of famous in her mama's eyes
You can tell she knows it when she cries
Black tears rollin' 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 watchin'
Black tears rollin' down
From the eyes of an angel in a sinner's town
If all the pain could just disappear
She'd quit cryin', she'd quit crying
Black tears