Joe Black

Joe Black Joe Black when you gonna come on back
To the dock where you work a double shift for a flat
And if you do its gonna be different
This time you're not working for the man
You're gonna be working for Joe Black
Joe Black when you gonna come on back

Joe Black Joe Black when you gonna come on back
To the wife that you love and the little baby siting in her lap
And all the kids you said you had to have
They're growing tall they're growing wild they're growing up without
Joe Black Joe Black when you gonna come on back

Joe Black Joe Black meaner every day thats a fact
Why did he change? was it the pain of carrying the world on his back
No one knew till it was too late
About the thing growing silently inside his brain
Joe Black Joe Black when you gonna come on back

Joe Black Joe Black lying in the street on his back
With the blood from in his head and the poker money in his sack
That was gonna buy the Easter shoes
For his family now they'll have to use it to bury him
Joe Black Joe Black when you gonna come on back