Key: Db major
Verse 1
D
Bm
G
D
Bm
G
D
There was a face
G
D
on a hoarding that someone had drawn on
And just enough time for the night
G
to pass by without warning
E
Away in the distance there's
A
G
a blue flashing light
Bm
Someone's in trouble
G
D
somewhere to night
G
D
As the flickering neon stand
A
G
s ready to fuse
D
A
The wind blows away all of yesterday's
Bm
D
news
G
D
Verse 2
Well they've locked up their daughters
G
D
and they battened the hatches
They always could find us but
G
they never could catch us
E
Through the grease streaked window
A
G
of an all night cafe
Bm
We watched the arrested get
G
D
taken away
G
D
And that cigarette haze
A
G
has ecology beat
D
As the whores and the drunks file
A
Bm
Em
in from the street
Bm
Em
Verse 3
F#
'Cause the steam's in the boiler,
Bm
the coal's in the fire
G
If you ask how I am, then
A
D
I'll just say inspired
F#
If the thorn of a rose,
Bm
is the thorn in your side
Em
G
A
D
G
Then you're better off dead, if you haven't yet died
Interlude 1
D
G
D
G
D
G
E
A
G
Bm
G
D
G
D
A
G
D
A
Bm
Em
Bm
Em
G
F#
'Cause the
Verse 4
steam's in the boiler,
Bm
the coal's in the fire
G
If you ask how I am, then
A
D
I'll just say inspired
F#
If the thorn of a rose,
Bm
is the thorn in your side
Em
G
Then you're better off dead, if
A
D
you haven't yet died
G
D
Verse 5
G
D
F#
Bm
Better off dead, better off dead,
F#
G
better off dead
D
A
D
Better off dead, better off dead,
F#
Bm
better off dead
G
D
Better off dead, better of dead
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