Night Shift Lyrics

Romeo among the ruins

Under the influence

Of that poison aftershave

And don't be the drunk at the funeral

It's business as usual

Dig a grave

You never lost it

American Gothic

Your dearly departed

This dead letter office

You're a sweet-talking coffin

Spent years playing possum

Hands deep in the cotton

Calypso forgotten

Strange days

What's this

You're back at it

The night shift

Jet black

Lipstick

You feel it don't you

Don't you feel the night shift

You feel the night shift

Knees on the marble

Head in the crypt

Kiss like we're starving

Don't know when we started

The night shift

No ceremony, no superstition

No written permission

We don't care what lies beneath

This is Mary Shelly's morbid addiction

To read her new fiction to her mother's mausoleum

Moon changes mood

With the governor removed

Engine guzzles fuel

You feed or you're food

Shake weed, hard booze

This town is a tomb

Put your mouth to my mouth

If the spirit moves you

These windows bone white wet

Lord can't see through them

Strange days

What's this

You're back at it

The night shift

Double over time

Black magic trick

You're back at it again

The way the night shifts

What's strictly forbidden

Comes quickly unzipped

It's a switch that gets flipped

The night shift

And don't it get real dark, real quick

Whisper like a graveyard

Tell me how the night shifts

Don't care how the stained glass slipper fits

Sister that behavior, save it for the night shift

'Cause once the light hits, we're lifeless

It's like this, midnight til it strikes six

The vice grips about twice as tight

As the tyrant's clenched fist

Compounding with interest

It flips in an instant

Like a cruel mistress

Whose gone cold as a Thin Mint

Straight out of the tin fridge

Hey don't get offended if your plans get upended

Invitation rescinded, no fences were mended

I can't recommend this road to Perdition

My fallback position

Stay on the night shift