Better Off Dead

Album: Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975)
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  • 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 Writer/s: BERNIE TAUPIN, ELTON JOHN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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  • Edward Felson from CaliforniaAnyone else bothered about the first line not really rhyming? Taupin's lyrics and rhymes are always top notch so I'm surprised -- I wonder if the first line was really meant to be: "There was a face that someone had drawn on a hoarding" which would then make "hoarding" rhyme with "warning." "Drawn on" and "warning" don't rhyme -- and see all the other line rhymes....
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