Midnight Shift

[00:28.84] There's a body in the basement
[00:33.16] The TV's full of guns
[00:35.95] In the room adjacent
[00:38.75] Cold water runs
[00:43.40] The sound of cisterns
[00:46.16] Sizzling bacon or chips
[00:49.81] Footsteps in the distance
[00:53.57] She's working on the midnight shift
[00:57.23] The room is getting colder
[01:00.18] Start jumping Jack
[01:04.31] You're the bluebird over her shoulder
[01:07.04] The monkey on her back
[01:10.72] She left your taxi fare
[01:14.41] There's a message in the gift
[01:17.26] You got more than she could spare
[01:20.96] She's working on the midnight shift
[01:25.45] Feedback screams on a twisted riff
[01:28.21] Luxembourg by night
[01:31.97] The cheapjack dream of the midnight shift
[01:35.52] Doesn't work out right
[01:39.29] He's got to shoot, he's got to shoot
[01:41.13] Put his face about
[01:45.72] It's like the long abandoned baseball boot
[01:49.37] With the tounge hanging out
[01:53.09] The perfume of the essence rare
[01:56.10] That lingers in the lift
[01:59.91] He's a prince among the peasants where
[02:03.72] She's working on the nidnight shift
[02:07.42] You're gonna find her stuck in the lift
[02:10.10] To the wonderland of vice
[02:13.89] You're gonna find her on the midnight shift
[02:16.66] With feet like blocks of ice
[02:21.26] She carried water for the mainman
[02:24.04] She had to walk the streets
[02:27.62] She married a door-to-door salesman
[02:31.57] Who worked away all week
[02:35.21] She lived with an empty chair
[02:37.92] Until the final rift
[02:41.64] She didn't have a thing to wear
[02:44.74] She had to work on the midnight shift
[02:50.21] You're gonna find her frozen stiff
[02:53.05] You think you been hurt
[02:55.88] You're gonna find her on the midnight shift
[02:59.43] Standing in the dirt
[03:59.26] You like to put yourself about
[04:02.25] Like the main man about town
[04:06.39] She needs someone to help her out
[04:09.42] But that's where you keep falling down
[04:13.76] Was there ever a thing so fair
[04:16.67] That smashed itself to bits
[04:20.35] Sometimes you get nowhere
[04:23.16] Working on the midnight shift
[04:27.71] A million tears gonna tear her apart
[04:29.57] Eyes that never shut
[04:34.13] A million spears gonna pierce your heart
[04:36.81] It's the death of a thousand cuts
[04:40.58] A million souls all running scared
[04:44.55] Or else they only drift
[04:48.22] You won't find her anywhere
[04:50.90] She's working on the midnight shift
[04:55.55] You're gonna find her on the hit list
[04:58.21] Of a cheapskate beastly rag
[05:01.87] You're gonna find her on the midnight shift
[05:05.52] What a fuckin' drag
[05:09.16] You really can't stop now
[05:11.98] The visitors arrive
[05:15.80] Here come the cops now
[05:19.57] Crunching up the drive
[05:23.20] Flat footsteps on the stairs
[05:26.94] Bad news travels swift
[05:30.01] Sometimes you get nowhere
[05:33.71] Working on the midnight shift
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