Black-Eyed Susan Lyrics

Creeks in the gutter

Moon rising high

Over trash buckets and hot tar

Susan's stepping out

With a spade in her sleeve

A black eye and a broken car

This was the last time

She was gonna pray

Better off watching the tv

Fell down the church steps

A mouth full of belief

From the soles of the preacher's feet

White bicycles get the roses

Dumpsters get the dandelions

Susan's got a black eye again

And a broken car

She knows a thing or two

As all old strays do

Kicking down a crooked street

She plays one mean game

Hearts and clubs and spades

Flip a coin on the cold concrete

A hole lives in her smile

Where the words fall out

Picking fights singing in her sleep

What on this wicked earth

Is the devil up to now

She crows showing all her teeth

White bicycles get the roses

Dumpsters get the dandelions

Susan's got a black eye again

And a broken car

You gotta go to the graveyard

To get to the green

In a difficult city

Asleep in your jeans

In the neon electric candleglow

Worms feast on the meat

And the grass will grow

And she's in love with the microwave

And she's in love with loose change

She's in love with forgetting her name

She's in love with forgetting her name

And she's in love with the man downstairs

Who gives her his time

But leaves her worse for her wares

And she's in love with the two-headed penny

She found on the grounds of a fair

And she's in love with her used guitar

And she's in love with her broken car

She's in love with the bruise on her face

She's in love with forgetting her name

She's in love with forgetting her name

She's in love with forgetting her name

She's in love with forgetting her name

She's in love with forgetting her name