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Tom Waits - Black Wings Lyrics

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  • (tom waits/k. brennan)
  • Take an eye for an eye
  • Take 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
  • When the moon is a cold chiseled dagger
  • Sharp enough to draw blood from a stone
  • He rides through your dreams on a coach
  • And horses and the fence posts
  • In the midnight look like bones
  • Well theyve 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
  • Hes not there for he has risen
  • Hes not there for he has risen
  • Well he once killed a man with a guitar string
  • Hes been seen at the table with kings
  • Well he once saved a baby from drowning
  • There are those who 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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