《Midnight Shift(John Peel Session 15th March 1982)》歌词

[00:00:00] Midnight Shift - John Cooper Clarke

[00:00:29] There's a body in the basement

[00:00:32] The TV's full of guns

[00:00:36] In the room adjacent

[00:00:39] Cold water runs

[00:00:43] The sound of cisterns

[00:00:46] Sizzling bacon or chips

[00:00:49] Footsteps in the distance

[00:00:53] She's working on the midnight shift

[00:00:57] The room is getting colder

[00:01:00] Start jumping Jack

[00:01:03] You're the bluebird over her shoulder

[00:01:07] The monkey on her back

[00:01:11] She left your taxi fare

[00:01:13] There's a message in the gift

[00:01:18] You got more than she could spare

[00:01:20] She's working on the midnight shift

[00:01:25] Feedback screams on a twisted riff

[00:01:28] Luxembourg by night

[00:01:31] The cheapjack dream of the midnight shift

[00:01:36] Doesn't work out right

[00:01:38] He's got to shoot he's got to shoot

[00:01:43] Put his face about

[00:01:45] It's like the long abandoned baseball boot

[00:01:49] With the tounge hanging out

[00:01:53] The perfume of the essence rare

[00:01:56] That lingers in the lift

[00:02:00] He's a prince among the peasants where

[00:02:03] She's working on the nidnight shift

[00:02:07] You're gonna find her stuck in the lift

[00:02:09] To the wonderland of vice

[00:02:14] You're gonna find her on the midnight shift

[00:02:17] With feet like blocks of ice

[00:02:21] She carried water for the mainman

[00:02:24] She had to walk the streets

[00:02:28] She married a door-to-door salesman

[00:02:31] Who worked away all week

[00:02:35] She lived with an empty chair

[00:02:38] Until the final rift

[00:02:42] She didn't have a thing to wear

[00:02:44] She had to work on the midnight shift

[00:02:49] You're gonna find her frozen stiff

[00:02:53] You think you been hurt

[00:02:56] You're gonna find her on the midnight shift

[00:02:59] Standing in the dirt

[00:03:59] You like to put yourself about

[00:04:02] Like the main man about town

[00:04:05] She needs somebody to help her out

[00:04:09] But that's where you keep falling down

[00:04:13] Was there ever a thing so fair

[00:04:16] That smashed itself to bits

[00:04:20] Sometimes you get nowhere

[00:04:23] Working on the midnight shift

[00:04:27] A million tears gonna tear her apart

[00:04:30] Eyes that never shut

[00:04:34] A million spears gonna pierce your heart

[00:04:37] It's the death of a thousand cuts

[00:04:41] A million souls all running scared

[00:04:44] Or else they only drift

[00:04:48] You won't find her anywhere

[00:04:51] She's working on the midnight shift

[00:04:55] You're gonna find her on the hit list

[00:04:58] Of a cheapskate beastly rag

[00:05:02] You're gonna find her on the midnight shift

[00:05:06] What a f**kin' drag

[00:05:09] You really can't stop now

[00:05:12] The visitors arrive

[00:05:17] Here come the cops now

[00:05:20] Crunching up the drive

[00:05:23] Flat footsteps on the stairs

[00:05:26] Bad news travels swift

[00:05:30] Sometimes you get nowhere

[00:05:33] Working on the midnight shift