Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Tokyo Storm Warning, artist - Elvis Costello. Album song Rock And Roll Music, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 31.12.2006
Record label: Elvis Costello
Song language: English
Tokyo Storm Warning |
The sky fell over cheap Korean monster-movie scenery |
And spilled into the reservoir of the crushed capsule hotel |
Between the Disney abattoir and the chemical refinery |
And I knew I was in trouble but I thought I was in hell |
So you look around the tiny room and you wonder where the hell you are |
While the K.K.K. |
convention are all stranded in the bar |
They wear hoods and carry shotguns in the main streets of Montgomery |
But they’re helpless here as babies because they’re only here on holiday |
What do we care if the world is a joke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
We’ll give it a big kiss |
We’ll give it a poke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
Death wears a big hat cause he’s a big bloke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
We’re only living this instant |
The black sand stuck beneath her feet in a warm Sorrento sunrise |
A barefoot girl from Naples or was it a Barcelona hi-rise |
Whistles out the tuneless theme song on a hundred cheap suggestions |
And a million false seductions and all those eternal questions |
What do we care if the world is a joke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
We’ll give it a big kiss |
We’ll give it a poke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
Death wears a big hat cause he’s a big bloke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
We’re only living this instant |
So they flew the Super-Constellation all the way from Rimini |
And feasted them on fish and chips from a newspaper facsimile |
Now dead Italian tourists bodies litter up the Broadway |
Some people can’t be told you know they have to learn the hard way |
Holidays are dirt-cheap in the Costa del Malvinas |
In the Hotel Argentina they can hardly tell between us |
For Teresa is a waitress though she’s now known as Juanita |
In a tango bar in Stanley or in Puerto Margarita |
She’s the sweetest and the sauciest |
The loveliest and the naughtiest |
She’s Miss Buenos Aires in a world of lacy lingerie |
What do we care if the world is a joke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
We’ll give it a big kiss |
We’ll give it a poke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
Death wears a big hat cause he’s a big bloke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
We’re only living this instant |
Japanese God-Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes |
For all we know and all we care they might as well be Martians |
They say gold paint on the palace gates comes from the teeth of pensioners |
They’re so tired of shooting protest singers |
That they hardly mention us |
While fountains fill with second-hand perfume |
And sodden trading stamps |
They’ll hang the bullies and the louts that dampen down the day |
What do we care if the world is a joke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
We’ll give it a big kiss |
We’ll give it a poke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
Death wears a big hat cause he’s a big bloke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
We’re only living this instant |
We braved the cold November air and the undertaker’s curses |
Saying «Take me to the Folies Bergere and please don’t spare the hearses» |
For he always had a dream of that revolver in your purse |
How you loved him until you hated him and made him cry for mercy |
He said «Don't ever mention my name there or talk of all the nights you cried |
We’ve always been like worlds apart now you’re seeing two nightmares collide» |
What do we care if the world is a joke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
We’ll give it a big kiss |
We’ll give it a poke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
Death wears a big hat cause he’s a big bloke |
(Tokyo Storm Warning) |
We’re only living this instant |