Graveyard Shift

I've been working the graveyard shift

No one ever told me it would be like this

Sundown til the morning rise

Starting my day with a moonlight kiss

And I was born on a precipice

Between salvation and the great abyss

I don't think I can go on like this

Putting in time on the graveyard shift

I go to work at sundown

Pick-axe digging into common ground

Night falls but it makes no sound

Duty's calling from the underground

Now here it comes it comes

The setting Sun

Time to dig down and see what side you're on

Until the dawn the dawn you're soldiering on

Every sundown you gotta be reborn

Come away, come away, come away

Come sit by me and see what I see

When I close my eyes at the edge of sleep

And we dream on the blade of a knife

Following the trail of the afterlife

Now here they come

The night commuters

The midnight hoard

The dawn refuters

They're all here to settle a score

With the phantom limbs and the ghosts of war

Here it come it comes

The setting sun

Time to dig down and see what side you're on

Until the dawn the dawn soldiering on

Every sundown you gotta be reborn

Come away, come away, come away

I've been working the graveyard shift

Traded night for day

Now it's all I can do to stay awake

Eyes heavy as the moonlight drifts

Time to dig, time to dig

And bury my mistakes

Bury my mistakes

I've been working the graveyard shift

No one ever told me it would be like this

Sundown til the morning rise

Starting my day with a moonlight kiss

And I was born on a precipice

Between salvation and the great abyss

I don't think I can go on like this

Putting in time on the graveyard shift

Now here it comes it comes

The setting Sun

Time to dig down and see what side you're on

Until the dawn the dawn you're soldiering on

Every sundown you gotta be reborn

Come away, come away, come away