Tom Waits - Black Wings

Album: Bone Machine (1992)
Black Wings - Lyrics
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 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
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
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

[@bigbattenberg]

Every time I hear this great song the image of Lee van Cleef in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" comes to mind.

[@mactheAnimal798]

Nice footages of the first flyin Pioneer Otto Lillienthal.

[@Billy-Box]

Fantastic song... Black poetry

[@brucknerian9664]

Lyrics by Tom Waits are extraterestrial. Instrumentals are supernatural. Rod Stewart sang Waits' "Downtown Train" and massacred it ... only Waits can sing his own lyrics, others trying to deserve a jail sentence.

[@kingyo9783]

cudowny,mój ulubiony przyjaciel Tom Waits....czemu my się nie znamy?

[@ChristianelHermano]

When the boots mount the staircase. The door's flung back open. He's not there, for he has risen!

[@GreetingsFromSpace]

Not allowed to embed this off youtube. Fuck UMG.

[@Romeowasbleeding1]

Anyone ever read the Dark Tower? Well this captures the mood perfectly.

[@myrules1010]

I'll have to use this as my theme song if I ever walk off into the sunset :).

[@paulmoore7064]

Without the temporary love interest. You don't want girl cooties.

[@swamifakkananda4043]

WHAT A SHAME------ THIS SHOULD HAVE 1234567890 VIEWS AT LEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@charmster0]

Some say beneath his coat there are wings

[@rAsphkA]

🤩

[@fraterlucifer888]

this song is the story of my life,,,,,,,,

[@richsheldon6966]

Powerful ending...

[@BlantonRoss]

Interesting bricolage of old-timey aerial footage and a wild west song.