| D | - | G | - | D | - | G |
D - C#m - Bm - A - G - F#m - E7
| Em (7Fret) - D (5Fret) |
| Bm | - | A |
| Verse |
| D | G | |
| things could have been | better |
| D | G | |
| they sure could not have gotten much worse |
| D C#m Bm A* |
| when there are tears out in the alley |
| G | |
| and laughter waitin | g |
| Fm | E7 | |
| out front in the hearse |
| Em | D | |
| and there's remark about | contender |
| Em | D | |
| repulsa aint too hard too | find |
| Am | G | |
| conclusion based on s | urrender |
| Bm | A | |
| and the general dismissal of the merit of | mankind |
| D | G | |
| the snakes | and the sawtooths |
| D | G | |
| they lay loving the | buck |
| D | C#m | |
| spending all their | time |
| Bm | A | |
| setting up camp | and |
| G | F#m | E7 | |
| running | amuck |
| cborus |
| Em | D | |
| liiiiiiight is not the neon | filler |
| Em | D | |
| not the memory of sun filled days by | solar spark |
| Am | G | |
| light is the moses |
| Bm | |
| splitting the | waves |
| A | G | Fm | E7 | |
| in a sea so | dark |
| Repeat tbe same structure for tbe last two verses! | |
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| There's a town in the high desert |
| where doctor gene scott says the demons run |
| alongside a chunk of heaven hovering there |
| where the wind in the image of the throne rides shotgun |
| riddles of the wonderment, wonders of the firmament |
| and me laid up, laid off and laying low |
| cborus |
| things could have been better |
| they sure could not have gotten any worse |
| tears out in the alleyway |
| and laughter waiting out front in the hearse |
| cborus |