![Black Wings - Tom Waits](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284751248643925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 07.09.1992
Record label: Universal Music
Song language: English
Black Wings |
Take an eye for an eye |
A tooth for a tooth |
Just like they say in the Bible |
Never leave a trace or forget a face |
Of any man at the table |
Any man at the table |
When the moon is a cold chiseled dagger |
And it’s sharp enough to draw blood from a stone |
He rides through your dreams on a coach |
And horses and the fence posts |
In the moonlight look like bones |
Well they’ve stopped trying to hold him |
With mortar, stone and chain |
He broke out of every prison |
Boots mount the staircase |
The door is flung back open |
He’s not there for he has risen |
He’s not there for he has risen |
Some say he once killed a man with a guitar string |
He’s been seen at the table with kings |
Well he once saved a baby from drowning |
There are those that say beneath his coat there are wings |
Some say they fear him |
Others admire him |
Because he steals his promise |
One look in his eye |
Everyone denies |
Ever having met him |
Ever having met him |
He can turn himself into a stranger |
Well they broke a lot of canes on his hide |
He was born away in a cornfield |
A fever beats in his head like a drum inside |
Some say they fear him |
Others admire him |
Because he steals his promise |
One look in his eye |
Everyone denies |
Ever having met him |
Ever having met him |
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