She's ten-to-five 1 But I'm shift-work And my woman alive Shift-work
Shift-work
I thought shift-work would work but it's good as broken us apart
Lights flash over me Twenty-four hour bulb I'm just home for tea But she's in work mode
Shift-work Shift-work
And they will shake you by the hands for shift-work But being abandoned by your woman is the price for shift-work
Shift-work
Shift-work
Shift-work
Shift-work, you let me down Gave me a hard heart You just cracked my mind You split us apart Shift-work
Shift-work
Shift-work
Raise your wages per year one grand By shift-work But I can see me go, go, going from this land Because of shift-work
Shift-work
I don't give her a chance She gets the the morning rant Gets in at eleven Doing overtime I'm going out at the time Just to hang out with a woman who was my
Shift-work
She was ten-to-five, but I'm shift-work And that woman that once was mine It's just shift-work
Shift-work
Shift-work
Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now Shift-work Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now Shift-work Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now Shift-work Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now Shift-work Now, now, now, now
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Footnotes
See also the lyrics to The Fall’s cover of Sister Sledge’s “Lost in Music“. ↩︎
Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: the story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books.
Mackay, Tommy (2018). 40 Odd Years of The Fall. Place of publication unknown: Greg Moodie.
Pringle, Steve (2022). You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record. [paperback edition]. Pontefract: Route Publishing Ltd. [Online store]
Smith, Mark E. (1985). The Fall Lyrik & Texte Von Mark E. Smith. In Deutsch & Englisch. With Drawings by Brix. Berlin: The Lough Press. [AKA The Orange Book. Available online in The Internet Archive]
Smith, Mark E. (2008). vII. The Lough Press & AMarquisManipulationProductions. [AKA the Blue Lyrics Book]
