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From Tom Waits's album: Mule Variations

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
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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 Moverly, Missouri at the
Iroquois Hotel
She checked in with the President
And she ran up quite a Bill
(Chorus)
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
Every time you play the red
The black is coming up

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
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