Neon Sisters

(This song is for a friend, because I never had a chance to tell him)

Neon, we were the neon sisters

Standing in the cold rain

Waiting for a home game

Neon, the neon sisters

Up and down the M1

95 and then some

Midnight, for the neon sisters

And London was a bombsight

Frozen in the moonlight

And honey for the neon sisters

Honey came in all shapes

Pinafore and a snowflake

And you borrow from dream-mongers

And then you live to be a hundred

And you share the spoils you plunder

Until the day you wake up hungering for neon

Then where were the neon sisters?

Reeling from a cowpunch

Looking for a free lunch

Anywhere the wind blows

The club for heroes

Blew me into Hollywood

Blew you to skid row

But I should have been there with you

The night you died

I think a part of me died with you

But in my heart

Where could I find it to forgive you?

Until the night

You went and stuck a dirty needle in your vein

Of all the fires

That ever thawed a cooling planet

Yours burned bright

With no chemical fan to it

So tell me why

If there's a good and there's an evil

On one of those nights

Did you stick a dirty needle in your vein?