[00:00.00]Tokyo Storm Warning - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
[00:16.53]The sky fell over cheap Korean monster movie scenery
[00:22.42]And spilled into the mezzanine
[00:25.32]Of the crushed capsule hotel
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[00:28.48]Between the Disney abattoir
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[00:31.42]And the chemical refinery
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[00:34.34]And I knew I was in trouble
[00:36.98]But I thought I was in hell
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[00:46.48]So you look around the tiny room
[00:49.36]And you wonder where the hell you are
[00:52.47]While the K K K
[00:54.08]Convention are all stranded in the bar
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[00:58.49]They wear hoods and carry shotguns
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[01:01.30]In the main streets of Montgomery
[01:04.46]But they're helpless here as babies
[01:07.19]'Cause they're only here on holiday
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[01:11.10]What do we care if the world is a joke
[01:15.13]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[01:16.78]We'll give it a big kiss
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[01:19.85]We'll give it a poke
[01:20.78]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[01:23.22]Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke
[01:26.88]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[01:29.19]We're only living this instant
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[01:34.94]The black sand stuck beneath
[01:36.95]Her feet in a warm Sorrento sunrise
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[01:40.87]A barefoot girl from Naples
[01:43.56]Or was it a Barcelona hi-rise
[01:46.50]Whistles out the tuneless theme
[01:49.10]Song on a hundred cheap suggestions
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[01:52.46]And a million false seductions
[01:55.41]And all those eternal questions
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[01:59.37]What do we care if the world is a joke
[02:03.67]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[02:05.01]We'll give it a big kiss
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[02:08.15]We'll give it a poke
[02:09.23]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[02:11.38]Death wears a big hat
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[02:14.29]'Cause he's a big bloke
[02:15.24]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[02:17.51]We're only living this instant
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[02:23.31]So they flew the Super Constellation all the way from Rimini
[02:29.04]And feasted them on fish
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[02:31.61]And chips from a newspaper facsimile
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[02:34.99]Now dead Italian tourists bodies litter up the Broadway
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[02:41.06]Some people can't be told you
[02:43.49]Know they have to learn the hard way
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[02:59.69]Holidays are dirt-cheap in the Costa del Malvinas
[03:04.86]In the Hotel Argentina they can hardly tell between us
[03:10.79]For Teresa is a waitress though she's now known as Juanita
[03:16.84]In a tango bar in Stanley or in Puerto Margarita
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[03:22.94]She's the sweetest and the sauciest
[03:25.61]
[03:26.29]The loveliest and the naughtiest
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[03:29.44]She's Miss Buenos Aires in a world of lacy lingerie
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[03:35.82]What do we care if the world is a joke
[03:39.35]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[03:41.41]We'll give it a big kiss
[03:44.34]We'll give it a poke
[03:45.32]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[03:47.73]Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke
[03:51.66]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[03:53.72]We're only living this instant
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[03:59.94]Japanese God Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes
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[04:05.58]For all we know and all we care
[04:08.59]They might as well be Martians
[04:11.26]They say gold paint on the palace gates
[04:14.54]Comes from the teeth of pensioners
[04:17.29]They're so tired of shooting protest singers
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[04:20.77]That they hardly mention us
[04:22.71]
[04:23.27]While fountains fill with second-hand perfume
[04:27.46]And sodden trading stamps
[04:29.56]They'll hang the bullies
[04:31.28]And the louts that dampen down the day
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[04:36.05]What do we care if the world is a joke
[04:39.79]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[04:41.79]We'll give it a big kiss
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[04:44.80]We'll give it a poke
[04:45.76]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[04:48.14]Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke
[04:51.71]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[04:54.08]We're only living this instant
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[04:57.06]Hey
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[04:59.83]We braved the cold November air
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[05:03.06]And the undertaker's curses
[05:06.13]Saying Take me to the Folies Bergere
[05:08.69]And please don't spare the hearses
[05:11.33]For he always had a dream of
[05:14.34]That revolver in your purse
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[05:17.32]How you loved him 'til you hated him
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[05:20.92]And made him cry for mercy
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[05:23.42]He said Don't ever mention my name there
[05:26.85]Or talk of all the nights you cried
[05:29.73]We've always been like worlds apart
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[05:32.72]Now you're seeing two nightmares collide
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[05:36.12]What do we care if the world is a joke
[05:40.14]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[05:41.98]We'll give it a big kiss
[05:44.79]We'll give it a poke
[05:45.87]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[05:48.29]Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke
[05:51.98]Tokyo Storm Warning
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[05:54.29]We're only living this instant
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[05:57.18]Wah ow