[Verse 1]
She puts on her work clothes, fishnet panty hose
She’s got a nickname that everyone 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
She wears the pain

[Chorus]
Black tears, rolling down, from the eyes of an angel in a sinner’s town
She reveals, they all cheer, then she cry’s
Black tears

[Verse 2]
Jealous of the innocent, 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 momma’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 lights on the mirrors, just won’t hide
Black tears

[Bridge]
She tries and tries so hard to get away
But everybody’s watching
[Chorus]
Black tears, rolling down, from the eyes of an angel in a sinner’s town
If all the pain could just disappear she'd quit crying, shed quit crying
Black tears