Black Tears Lyrics – Lucinda Williams

Read the full Black Tears lyrics by Lucinda Williams from the album World's Gone Wrong along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Lucinda Williams’s music, you can also explore Sing Unburied Sing and So Much Trouble In The World, two other songs by Lucinda Williams.

There is darkness in the delta
Up and down the mississippi
Darkness in the delta
Up and down the mississippi
Darkness in the swamp
And darkness in the city

The dream is deferred
And the churches are burning
The dream is deferred
And the churches are burning
When voices are not heard
What the hell are we learning?

Black tears filled with blues
Black tears in the street
Black tears filled with blues
Black tears in the street
We gotta keep looking for that
Mercy seat

400 years is long enough
How long will they rain down?
400 years is long enough
How long will they rain down?
You know it’s a sad, sad, sad sound
When those tears hit the ground

There’s blood in the river
There’s blood in the heat
There’s blood in the river
There’s blood in the heat
There is blood all around
Blood all around my feet

Black tears filled with blues
Black tears in the street

Black tears filled with blues
Black tears in the street
We gotta keep looking for that
Mercy seat
We gotta keep looking for that
Mercy seat

We gotta keep looking
For that mercy seat
We gotta keep looking
For that mercy seat
For that mercy seat
That mercy seat