[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