INTRO:
Ab/C C# F/A Bbm F F# Ab/C C# (2x)
VERSE
C# F# C#
There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on
F# C#/F
And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning
Eb Ab F#
Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light
Bbm Ab C#
Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight
F#/C# C# Ab F#
As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse
F#/C# C# Ab Bbm
The wind blows away all of yesterday's news
Ab/C C# F/A Bbm F F# Ab/C C#
VERSE
C# F# C#
Well they've locked up their daughters and they battened the hatches
F# C#/F
They always could find us but they never could catch us
Eb Ab F#
Through the grease streaked windows of an all night cafe
Bbm Ab C#
We watched the arrested get taken away
F#/C# C# Ab F#
And that cigarette haze has ecology beat
F#/C# C# Ab Bbm Bbmsus4 Bbm
As the whores and the drunks filed in from the street
CHORUS
F Bbm Bbm/Ab
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'Cause the steam's in the boiler the coal's in the fire
F# Ab C#
If you ask how I am then I'll just say inspired
F Bbm Bbm/Ab
If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side
Ebm Ab C#
Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died
BRIDGE:
C# Ab/C C# F/A Bbm F F# Ab/C C# (x2)
INSTRUMENTAL VERSE - VOICE "OOH/AH"
CHORUS
F Bbm Bbm/Ab
'Cause the steam's in the boiler the coal's in the fire
F# Ab C#
If you ask how I am then I'll just say inspired
F Bbm Bbm/Ab
If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side
Ebm Ab C#
Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died
OUTRO:
C# Ab/C C# F/A Bbm F F# Ab/C C# (x2)
Ab/C C#
Better off dead
F/A Bbm
Better off dead
C#/F F#
Better off dead
Ab/C C#
Better off dead (x2)