[Verse 1]
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

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
'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

[Break]
Ooh (Ooh)
Ooh
Ooh (La, la, la)
Ooh (la, la, la)
Ah
Ah
La-la-la-la-la...

[Chorus]
'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

[Outro]
Better off dead
Better off dead
Better off dead
Better off dead
Better off dead
Better off dead
Better off dead
Better off dead