Elton John - Better Off Dead lyrics

Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Available on the album captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy<br><br>There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on<br>And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning<br>Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light<br>Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight<br>As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse<br>The wind blows away all of yesterday's news<br><br>Well they've locked up their daughters and they battened the hatches<br>They always could find us but they never could catch us<br>Through the grease streaked windows of an all night cafe<br>We watched the arrested get taken away<br>And that cigarette haze has ecology beat<br>As the whores and the drunks filed in from the street<br><br>`cause the steams in the boiler the coals in the fire<br>If you ask how I am then I'll just say inspired<br>If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side<br>Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died