Lyrics

[Verse 1] She puts on her work clothes, fishnet pantyhose 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 [Chorus] Black tears rolling down From the eyes of an angel in a sinner's town She reveals and they all cheer And then she cries black tears [Verse 2] Jealous of the innocent, sometimes she is 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 The wrong kind of famous in her mama's eyes You can tell she knows it when she cries [Chorus] Black tears rolling down From the eyes of an angel in a sinner's town White lines on the mirror Just won't hide black tears [Post-Chorus] She tries and tries so hard to get away But everybody is watching [Outro] 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 crying, yeah, she'd quit crying Black tears