Better Off Dead chords

Capo 1

 C/B  C  C/G#  Am  Am/E  F  G   C -   
 C/B  C  C/G#  Am  Am/E  F  G   C --- 


 C                                   F          C
     There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on ---
        C                                                F          F/E 
     And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning -- -
     D/F#                                         G  F    
     Away in the distance - there's a blue flashing li-ight
 Am                   
     Someone's in trouble
 G           C              
     Somewhere tonight - as the
 F          C           G        F           
     Flickering neon stands ready to     fuse --- the
 F           C          G          Am      
     Wind blows away all of yesterday's news --


 C/B  C  C/G#  Am  Am/E  F  G   C  


 C               C
     --- Well they've locked up their daughters
              F             C           
     And they battened their hatches ---
    C                                             F        F/E
     They always could find us but they never could catch us -
                D/F#                                      G F    
     Through the grease-streaked windows of an all night café-hey
 Am                         
     We watched the arrested get
 G      C
     Taken away - and that
 F         C         G       F              
     Cigarette haze has ecology      beat --- as the
 F              C            G           
     Whores and the drunks filed in from the
 Am        A4  Am  A4 
     Street -- -       --- -


 E            E/G#           E/B         E            Am   G
     - 'Cause the steam's in the boiler, the coal's in the fire - if you
 F                      G             C           
     Ask how I am then I'll just say, "in-----spired" ---
 E        E/G#       E/B         E            Am   G
     - If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side --
 Dm                       G           G           C   
     - Then you're better off dead if you     haven't yet died


 C/B  C  C/G#  Am  Am/E  F  G  
 C/B  C  C/G#  Am  Am/E  F  G   C --- 


 C -- F  C  C  F  D/F#  G - F - 
 Am  G C -  F C G  F 
 F C G  Am --- A4 -  Am --- A4 - 


 E            E/G#           E/B         E            Am   G
     - 'Cause the steam's in the boiler, the coal's in the fire - if you
 F                      G             C           
     Ask how I am then I'll just say, "in-----spired" ---
 E        E/G#       E/B         E            Am   G
     - If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side --
 Dm                       G           G           C   
     - Then you're better off dead if you     haven't yet died


 C/B  C  C/G#  Am  Am/E  F  G  
 C/B  C  C/G#  Am  Am/E  F  G  


 C/B        C    E/G#       Am   
     Better off dead, better off dead
    Am/E       F    G          C    
     Better off dead, better off dead
    C/B        C    E/G#       Am   
     Better off dead, better off dead
    Am/E       F    G          C    
     Better off dead, better off dead