Tom: Db ( Ab/C Db ) ( Ab Bbm ) ( Fm Gb ) ( Ab/Eb Db ) Db Gb Db There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on Gb Db/F And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning Eb Ab Gb Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light Bbm Gb Db Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight Gb/Db Db Ab Gb As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse Ebm Db Ab Bbm The wind blows away all of yesterday's news ( Ab/C Db ) ( Ab Bbm ) ( Fm Gb ) ( Ab/Eb Db ) 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 heat As the whores and the drunks filed in from the street F7 Bbm Db/Ab `Cause the steams in the boiler, the coals in the fire Gb Ab7 Db If you ask how I am then I'll just say inspired F7 Bbm Db/Ab If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side Ebm Gb Ab7 Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died