Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Tokyo Storm Warning (Guitar)

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The sky fell over cheap Korean monster-movie scenery

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And spilled into the mezzanine of the crushed capsule hotel

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Between the Disney abattoir and the chemical refinery

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I knew I was in trouble but I thought I was in hell

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So you look around the tiny room and you wonder where the hell you are

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While the K.K.K. convention are all stranded in the bar

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They wear hoods and carry shotguns in the main streets of Montgomery

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But they're helpless here as babies because they're only here on holiday

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What do we care if the world is a joke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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We'll give it a big kiss

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We'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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We're only living this instant

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The black sand stuck beneath her feet in a warm Sorrento sunrise

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A barefoot girl from Naples or was it a Barcelona hi-rise

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Whistles out the tuneless theme song of a hundred cheap suggestions

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And a million false seductions and all those eternal questions, well…

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What do we care if the world is a joke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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We'll give it a big kiss

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We'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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We're only living this instant

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So they flew the Super Constellation all the way from Rimini

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And feasted them on fish and chips from a newspaper facsimile

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Now dead Italian tourists bodies litter up the Broadway

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Some people can't be told you know they have to learn the hard way

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Holidays are dirt-cheap in the Costa del Malvinas

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In the Hotel Argentina they can hardly tell between us

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For Teresa is a waitress though she's now known as Juanita

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In a tango bar in Stanley or in Puerto Margarita

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She's the sweetest and the sauciest

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The loveliest and naughtiest

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She's Miss Buenos Aires in a world of lacy lingerie

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What do we care if the world is a joke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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We'll give it a big kiss

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We'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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We're only living this instant

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Japanese God-Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes

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For all we know and all we care they might as well be Martians

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They say gold paint on the palace gates comes from the teeth of pensioners

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They're so tired of shooting protest singers that they hardly mention us

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While fountains fill with second-hand perfume

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And sodden trading stamps

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They'll hang the bullies and the louts that dampen down the day

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What do we care if the world is a joke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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We'll give it a big kiss

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We'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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We're only living this instant

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We braved the cold November air and the undertaker's curses

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Singin' "Take me to the Folies Bergère and please don't spare the hearses"

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For he always had a dream of that revolver in your purse

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How you loved him until you hated him and made him cry for mercy

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He said "Don't ever mention my name there or talk of all the nights you cried

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We've always been like worlds apart now you're seeing two nightmares collide"

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What do we care if the world is a joke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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We'll give it a big kiss

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We'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)

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We're only living this instant