Midnight Shift - Radio 1 Live Version

There's a body in the basement
 The TV's full of guns
 In the room adjacent
 Cold water runs
 The sound of cisterns
 Sizzling bacon or chips
 Footsteps in the distance
 She's working on the midnight shift
 The room is getting colder
 Start jumping Jack
 You're the bluebird over her shoulder
 The monkey on her back
 She left your taxi fare
 There's a message in the gift
 You got more than she could spare
 She's working on the midnight shift
 Feedback screams on a twisted riff
 Luxembourg by night
 The cheapjack dream of the midnight shift
 Doesn't work out right
 He's got to shoot, he's got to shoot
 Put his face about
 It's like the long abandoned baseball boot
 With the tounge hanging out
 The perfume of the essence rare
 That lingers in the lift
 He's a prince among the peasants where
 She's working on the nidnight shift
 You're gonna find her stuck in the lift
 To the wonderland of vice
 You're gonna find her on the midnight shift
 With feet like blocks of ice
 She carried water for the mainman
 She had to walk the streets
 She married a door-to-door salesman
 Who worked away all week
 She lived with an empty chair
 Until the final rift
 She didn't have a thing to wear
 She had to work on the midnight shift
 You're gonna find her frozen stiff
 You think you been hurt
 You're gonna find her on the midnight shift
 Standing in the dirt
 You like to put yourself about
 Like the main man about town
 She needs someone to help her out
 But that's where you keep falling down
 Was there ever a thing so fair
 That smashed itself to bits
 Sometimes you get nowhere
 Working on the midnight shift
 A million tears gonna tear her apart
 Eyes that never shut
 A million spears gonna pierce your heart
 It's the death of a thousand cuts
 A million souls all running scared
 Or else they only drift
 You won't find her anywhere
 She's working on the midnight shift
 You're gonna find her on the hit list
 Of a cheapskate beastly rag
 You're gonna find her on the midnight shift
 What a fuckin' drag
 You really can't stop now
 The visitors arrive
 Here come the cops now
 Crunching up the drive
 Flat footsteps on the stairs
 Bad news travels swift
 Sometimes you get nowhere
 Working on the midnight shift