Better Off Dead

There was a face on a hoarding

That someone had drawn on

And just enough time for the night

To pass by without warning

Away in the distance

There's a blue flashing light

Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight

As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse

The wind blows away

All of yesterday's news

Well they've locked up their daughters

And they battened the hatches

They always could find us

But they never could catch us

Through the grease streaked windows

Of an all night cafe

We watched the arrested get taken away

And that cigarette haze has ecology beat

As the whores and the drunks filed

In from the street

Cause the steam's in the boiler

The coal's in the fire

If you ask how I am

Then I'll just say inspired

If the thorn of a rose

Is the thorn in your side

Then you're better off dead

If you haven't yet died

Cause the steam's in the boiler

The coal's in the fire

If you ask how I am

Then I'll just say inspired

If the thorn of a rose

Is the thorn in your side

Then you're better off dead

If you haven't yet died

Better off dead

Better off dead

Better off dead

Better off dead

Better off dead

Better off dead

Better off dead

Better off dead