Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Night Work, artist - Exhumed. Album song Death Revenge, in the genre Date of issue: 12.10.2017
Record label: Relapse
Song language: English
Night Work |
| «The corporation of corpse-stealers, I am told, support themselves and Families |
| very comfortably, and that no-one should be surprised at the Nature of Such a |
| Society, the late Resurrectionists in St. Saviours, St. Giles’s and St. |
| Pancras churchyards, are memorable Instances of this laudable Profession. |
| «Anonymous A View of London and Westminster 1728 |
| «Blest be ye man spares these stones, And curste be ye moves my bones» — |
| William Shakespeare’s epitaph 1616 |
| Hare: Welcome to our nocturnal vocation |
| Disembalming we grimly extract the expired |
| Disinterring by lanthorn illumination |
| To fulfill anatomists' cadaverous desires — |
| Dr. Knox: Giving Nightwatchmen fits with the mortsafes you’ve picked Finding |
| fresh graves to dig, I must say it’s a hell of a gig |
| Chorus: Night work be done, the lifeless made graveless. |
| our prize to be won |
| Exhumed by torchlight, dead weight dead to rights |
| This night work, an unholy sight, undertaken tonight |
| Hare: A livelihood in death we scrape |
| Your casket vacant, corpse taken forthwith |
| From our fell spades you will not escape |
| Second coming ignominious, unclean and sick — |
| Dr. Knox: Wooden shovels and picks, from your tomb you’ll be nicked |
| Sink to new depths of sick, compunction cut to the quick |
| Chorus: Night work be done, the lifeless made graveless our prize to be won |
| Exhumed by torchlight, dead weight dead to rights |
| This night work, an unholy sight, undertaken tonight |
| Solo — Matthew Harvey |
| Dr. Knox: It's a dirty job, finding fresh graves to rob |
| Solo — Michael Burke |
| Dr. Knox: These are dirty deeds, six feet of dirt, dug dirt cheap |
| Solo — Matthew Harvey |
| Dr. Knox: It's a dirty job, finding fresh graves to ro |
| Toil as the casket’s slaves, death is our living wage |
| Chorus: Night work be done, the lifeless made graveless our prize to be won |
| Exhumed by torchlight, dead weight dead to rights |
| This night work, an unholy sight, undertaken this — |
| Night work be done, the lifeless made graveless our prize to be won Exhumed by |
| torchlight, dead weight dead to rights |
| This night work, an unholy sight, undertaken tonight |