Graveyard Shift Lyrics

Remember when we were playing music on the corner

We would make enough for food and that was it

Then I started doing dishes to get the money I was missing

So I could find a place and cover rent

You know times were hard, but I'd work a little harder

Trying to bridge those troubled waters in my mind

I had the graveyard shift, all those songs that came from it

I never showed them, I just kept them all inside

Lay it down

All the hurt, the dirt, the turmoil

All the riches and the spoils, I give thanks

All the songs I've sung

And the ones still yet to come

All the tears I've had to shed to find my strength

Back when times were hard, I was sleeping on the pavement

Couldn't find my way and all the comfort I had known was gone

I had the graveyard shift, and all those songs that came from it

I should have sang, but I was barely hanging on.

I should have sang, but I was barely hanging on.