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Better Off Dead - Elton John

Album: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

genre: Pop Rock

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 steams in the boiler the coals 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 steams in the boiler the coals 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 of Dead [8x]

Lyrics added by Bianca G.

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Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Judah and the Lion album lyrics
Taking into consideration Barry Toberman's biography of Elton John, Taupin and Elton got the inspiration for the song after they went to a burger bar, where some of the clients looked better off dead.
Song details
  • Co-Production: Gus Dudgeon
  • Composition: Bernie Taupin and Elton John
  • Vocals: Elton John
  • Release Date: 19 May 1975