Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Em (7Fret) - D (5Fret)

Verse

things could have been better

they sure could not have gotten much worse

when there are tears out in the alley

 and laughter waiting

out front in the hearse

and there's remark about contender

repulsa aint too hard too find

conclusion based on surrender

and the general dismissal of the merit of mankind

the snakes and the sawtooths

they lay loving the buck

spending all their time

setting up camp and

running amuck

Chorus

liiiiiiight is not the neon filler

not the memory of sun filled days by solar spark

light is the moses

  splitting the waves

  in a sea so dark

[[[[[[[Repeat the same structure for the last two verses!]]]]]]]

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

Chorus

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

Chorus