Black Wings
 (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
 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 midnight look like bones

 Well they've stopped trying to hold him
 With mortar, stone and chain
 He broke out of every prison
 Well 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

 Well 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 who say beneath his coat there are wings

 Some say they fear him

 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
 Ever having met him
 Ever having met him
 Ever having met him
 Ever having met him