Tokyo Storm Warning Akkorde von 
Elvis Costello 
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Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Oh, the sky
Verse 1
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fell over cheap Korean monster- movie scenery
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And spilled into the mezzanine of
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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
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I thought I was in hell
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
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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
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'cause they're only here on holiday
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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)
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We're only living this instant
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Verse 3
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Well, the black sand stuck beneath
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her feet in a warm Sorrento sunrise
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A barefoot girl from Naples or was
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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 mil_ lion false seductions and
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all those eternal questions
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Well, what do we care if the world is a
joke? (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Oh, 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)
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We're only living this in_ stant
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Verse 5
So they flew the Super- Constella_
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tion all the way from Rimini
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And feasted them on fish and chips
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from a newspaper facsimile
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Now dead Italian tourist bod_
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ies litter up the Broadway
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Some people can't be told, you know they have to learn the
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hard way
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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Holidays are dirt- cheap in
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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
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in Puerto Margarita
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She's the sweetest and the sauciest
The loveliest and naughtiest
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She's Miss Buenos Aires
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in a world of lacy lingerie
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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)
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We're only living this in_ _ stant
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Verse 8
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Ja_ panese God,
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Jesus ro_ bots telling teenage fortunes
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
They're so tired of shooting
protest singers
That they hardly mention us
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While foun_ tains 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
Verse 9
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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)
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We're only living this in_ stant, hey
Verse 10
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We braved the cold November air and
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the undertaker's curses, saying
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"Take me to the Folies Bergères, and
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please don't spare the hearses"
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For he always had a dream of that
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re_ volver in your purse
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How you loved him 'till you hated
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him and made him cry for mercy
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He said "don't ever mention my name there
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or talk of all the nights you cried
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We've al_ ways been like world_ s apart,
now you're seeing two nightmares collide"
Verse 11
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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)
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We're only living this instant,
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hey, ow!
Interlude 2
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Verse 12
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Ba- ba- ba- ba- ba- ba!
Outro 1
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