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