Midnight Shift chords by JOHN COOPER CLARKE

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Verse 1
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There's a
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body in the basement
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The TV's full of guns
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In the room adjacent
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Cold water runs
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The sound of cisterns
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Sizz  ling bacon or chips
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Footsteps in the distance
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She's working on the midnight shift
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The room is  getting colder

Verse 2
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Start jumping Jack
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You're the bluebird over her shoulder
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The monkey on her back
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She left your taxi fare
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There's a message in the gift
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You got more than she
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She's working   on the
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midnight shift

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Verse 3
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Feedback screams on a
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twisted riff
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Luxembourg by night
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The cheapjack dream of the
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midnight shift
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Doesn't work out right
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He's got to shoot, he's got to shoot
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Put his face about
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It's like the long aban
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doned baseball boot
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With  the tounge hanging out
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The perfume

Verse 4
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of the essence rare
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That lingers in the lift
He's a prince among
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the peasants where
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She's working on the nidnight shift
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You're gonna find her stuck in the lift
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To the wonderland of vice
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You're gonna find her on
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With feet like blocks of ice
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She carried water for the

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mainman
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She had to walk the streets
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She married a door- to- door salesman
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Who worked away all week
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She lived with an empty chair
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Until the final rift
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She didn't have a thing to wear
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She had to work  on the
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mid night shift

Verse 6
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You're gonna find her frozen stiff
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You think you been hurt
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You're gonna find her on the
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midnight shift
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Standing in the dirt

Interlude 1
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You like to

Verse 7
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put yourself about
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Like the main man about town
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She needs someone to help  her out
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But that's where you keep falling down
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Was there ever a thing so fair
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That smashed itself to bits
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Sometimes you get nowhere
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Working on the midnight shift
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A million tears gonna

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tear her apart
Eyes that never shut
A million spears gonna
pierce your heart
It's the death of a thousand cuts
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A million souls all run   ning scared
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Or else they only drift
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You won't find her anywhere
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She's working on the midnight
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shift
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You're gonna find her on the hit   list

Verse 9
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Of a cheapskate beastly rag
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You're gonna find her on the
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midnight shift
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What a fuckin'  drag
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You really can't

Verse 10
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stop  now
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The visitors arrive
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Here come the cops now
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Crunching up  the drive
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Flat footsteps on the stair s
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Bad news travels swift
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Sometimes you get nowhere
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Working on the midnight shift

Outro 1
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