[Intro]
Midnight shift, cold steel beneath my feet
Factory walls hold secrets that we keep
[Verse 1]
Paper mill ghost town, where the snakes all breed
Night crawler, yeah, that's what I gotta be
Punch clock dead, but at midnight I'm alive
Trading work boots for these streets where I survive
Got that factory dirt still under my nails
While these machines keep spitting out these tales
Linnea knows the game, she sees right through me
Half love, half hate, she knows what I grew up to be
[Chorus]
Midnight machine, I'm running through these halls
Midnight machine, watching empires fall
Cold-blooded moves in this industrial groove
Ain't no rules when you got nothing left to lose
[Verse 2]
Underground beats in abandoned sector three
Where the foreman's office turned into my VIP
F*ck their overtime, we taking back the night
LED strips where the warning lights used to shine
Every broken window tells a different story
Young blood turning rust into glory
Streets taught me more than any school
Breaking every goddamn golden rule
[Bridge]
Linnea said "Boy, you're just like this town"
Half dead by day but when night comes around
We transform, we adapt, we survive
In this concrete jungle staying alive
[Chorus]
Midnight machine, I'm running through these halls
Midnight machine, watching empires fall
Cold-blooded moves in this industrial groove
Ain't no rules when you got nothing left to lose
[Outro]
Dawn's approaching, time to shed this skin
Another shift waiting, let the grind begin
But they don't know about my midnight life
Where these factory snakes cut like a knife