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Words
Verse 1
Thirty-one years and they gave you a card
signed by people who never worked a night
I said you deserved a brass band at the door
and a week of somebody else's shifts
You said don't make a fuss, Marisol
so I made a song instead, which is worse
Chorus
Last shift, Grace, hang the badge up
let the corridor get on without you
Somebody else can chase the doctor down
you have carried enough of this building
Verse 2
You held a boy's hand in ninety-six
whose mother couldn't get there in time
You never told his family you cried
in the linen room with the door held shut
I know because I found you in there
and I never said a word about it
Chorus
Last shift, Grace, hang the badge up
let the corridor get on without you
Somebody else can chase the doctor down
you have carried enough of this building
Outro
Go home, Grace
sleep past six for once
The garden has been waiting
longer than any of us
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