It's Better to Be Dead
Duncan Sheik

I present to you a story

Set upon a northern shore

The denizens of lighthouse

During times of war

The foolish things they did

The foolish things they said

I'm sure you will agree

They would be better off dead

Lilly keeps the lighthouse

She's afraid the unknown

She's no ray of sunshine

So mostly she's alone

And no one cares about her longing

Or the dreams on which she's fed

And though I'm sad to say it

She would be better off dead

Next we have a sheriff

Charles is his name

He's something of a sideshow

Every sheriff is the same

Will he stand for justice

Or something else instead

Either way it hardly matters

He's better off dead

When everything is done

And everything is said

Life is naught but pain

It's better to be dead

Release your heavy heart

Rest your weary head

When all the world's at war

It's better, it's better

Witness Yasujiro

He hails from old Japan

He searches for redemption

In this strange and foreign land

And now he works for Lilly

To earn his daily bread

But the most that one can say

Is that he's better off dead

Please welcome young Christopher

He's come here on a train

His father flew to heaven

On a fiery airplane

He's come to live with Lilly

And he's got visions in his head

He may be our main attraction

But he's better off dead

When everything is done

And everything is said

Life is naught but pain

It's better to be dead

Release your heavy heart

Rest your weary head

When all the world's at war

It's better to be dead

Everything is done

All things are said

It's good to be a ghost

It's better, it's better to be dead

It's good to be a ghost (it's to be a ghost)

It's better to be dead


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  Acquaintance   Bicycle Thief   Distant Lover   Half A Room   No Happy End   Summer Mourning   Warning Light   A Body Goes Down   A Mirror In The Heart   Alibi   Barely Breathing   Barley Breathing   Better To Be Dead   Bicycle Thief   Birmingham   Bite Your Tongue   Body Goes Down   Cards   Circling   Days Go By   Distant Lover   Everyone, Everywhere   Fantastic Toys and Corduroys   For You   Foreshadowing   Foreshadowing: Over And Out   Genius (never Came Through)   Gentlemen Take Polaroids   Good Morning   Good Morning!   Half - Life   Half-Life   Hey Casanova   Home [Live]   How It Feels   I Believe   I Don't Believe In Ghosts   I Wouldn't Mind   In Between   In The Absence Of The Sun   Killing Time   Kyoto Song   Life's What You Make It   Little Hands   Lo And Behold   Longing Town   Lost On The Moon   Lost on the Moon [International Version]   Love Vigilantes   Memento   Mouth On Fire   Mr. Chess   Nichiren   Nichiren   No Trace of Us   Not A Common Man   Nothing Fades   Nothing Special   November   Now Or Never   Oh Sri Lanka   On a High   On Her Mind   Opening (Morning Routine)   Photograph   Play Your Part   Reasons For Living   Requiescat   Rubbed Out   Selling Out (Fischer King Remix)   She Runs Away   Shine Inside   Shopping   Shout   So Alive   Someone You Need   Songbird   Star-Field On Red Lines   Start Again   Stay   Stripped   Summer Mourning   Sunrise to Sunset (promo)   Take a Bow   That Says It All   The Dawn's Request   The End Of Outside   The Ghost In You   The Tale of Solomon Snell   The Wilderness   The Winds That Blow   There's A Home   This Is How My Heart Heard   Time And Good Fortune   True Faith   Truth About Romeo   Until   Varying Degrees of Con-Artistry   Warning Light   We're Here To Tell You   What is Love   White Limousine   William, It Was Really Nothing   Wishful Thinking   You Are What You Wear   You've Really Gone and Done It Now

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