She lives in a house   That's way back off the road   There's a man with a lantern   And he carries her soul   A coal stove and a bed   A skillet and a hound   She drove a camel through a needle   In this sinking board walk town      She's my black market baby   She's my black market baby   She's a diamond that   Wants to stay coal   Wants to stay coal      I swang out wide with her   On hells iron gate   Anything that you wanted   You could have   My eyes say their prayers to her   Sailors ring her bell   Like a moth mistakes a light bulb   For the moon and goes to hell      She's my black market baby   She's my black market baby   She's a diamond that   Wants to stay coal   Wants to stay coal      There's no prayer like desire   There's amnesia in her kiss   She's a swan and a pistol   And she will follow you like this   In Moberly, Missouri at the   Iroquois Hotel   She checked in with the President   And she ran up quite a bill      She's my black market baby   She's my black market baby   She's a diamond that   Wants to stay coal   Wants to stay coal      She's whiskey in a teacup   She gives blondes a lousy name   She's a bonzai Aphrodite   And a ticket back to Spain   She's a hard way to go   And there ain't no way to stop   Every time you play the red   The black is coming up      She's my black market baby   She's my black market baby   She's a diamond that   Wants to stay coal   She wants to stay coal   My baby wants to stay coal   Coal   Coal   My baby wants to stay coal