Neon Filler Lyrics - Howe Gelb

Things could have been better 

they sure could not have gotten much worse 

when there were tears out in the alley 

and laughter waiting out front in the hearse 

and there?s remark about contender 

repulsa ain?t too hard to find 

conclusion based on surrender 

and the general dismissal 

on the merit of mankind 

the snakes and the saw-toothes 

they lay loving the buck 

spending all their time setting up camp 

and running amuck 

{CHORUS} light 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 

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 

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things could have been better 

they sure could not have gotten any worse 

tears out in the alley way 

and laughter waiting out front there in the hearse 

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