Black Dress - The Courage

The Devil wears a black dress

And waits for me inside there

With every hint of madness

Growing like a sickness

She’s pretty as a picture

And everybody knows her

The Devil wears a black dress

And she knows me by name

She said, I’ve gotta down the line of the river

And I’d like to show you my bones

And I’ve got a house on the hills in the winter

And I hate sleeping alone

The Devil wears a black dress

And covers up the silence

And she lays across the bedspread

Naked as the sunset

She said she had a good dream

She said we had a baby

And she wrapped in a black dress

And she gave it to me

She said, I’ll be around 'till the day of deliverance

And I’ll be the weight on your bones

And I’ll find your children and take to my mistress

'Cause she hates sleeping alone