Night Shift

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Invitation rescinded, no fences were mended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